Officials on Friday finally declared a state of cold shutdown at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, only to find they still face a long and bumpy road toward scrapping its crippled reactors and restoring the public's shattered confidence in nuclear energy.
When the time comes to remove the fuel from reactors 1, 2 and 3, they intend to draw on the lessons of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident in the U.S. But the task will be more challenging than at the Pennsylvania facility because the fuel is believed to have melted through the bases of the reactor pressure vessels. (Japan Times)
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