IT'S OFFICIAL: 'New Chernobyl' Fukushima Will Take Decades To Clean Up
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"It will take three, five, ten years, or eventually several decades to take care of the accident," Kan said Saturday according to Reuters.
Several decades all told puts this disaster in a category with Chernobyl, which remains a nuclear dangerzone decades after its accident. Kan did not specify when the 80,000 people who have evacuated from the area can return.
Meanwhile they're still trying to stop meltdown:
Goshi Hosono, the government minister appointed to oversee Japan's response to the nuclear crisis, told reporters he believed Tokyo Electric had achieved its target of establishing a stable cooling system for the reactors, the first of a series of steps needed to shut down the plant by January.
Efforts to cool the Fukushima reactors currently hinge on a complex and hastily constructed system to decontaminate thousands of tonnes of water being pumped into the reactors and then to circulate it back through the reactors.
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