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Japan to do a “practise” nuclear meltdown

Japan to create nuclear meltdown to learn how to deal with disasters like Fukushima news.com.au 10 Jan 14 SCIENTISTS in Japan are planning to create a controlled reactor meltdown in a bid to learn how to deal with future disasters like that at Fukushima.

In Fukushima, the radiation is still so bad it can be fatal within 20 minutes. 

To combat this sort of disaster occurring again, the Japan Atomic Energy Agency said it was working on a project using a scaled-down version of a reactor which they would deliberately cause to malfunction at a research facility in Ibaraki, north of Tokyo.

HOW THE FUKUSHIMA FALLOUT CONTINUES TO SPREAD

Japanese media has also reported that the intensity of radiation levels in the nuclear powerplant devastated by the earthquake – and subsequent tidal waves – of March 2011 is now at its highest levels ever……

The meltdown project, which will begin some time in the fiscal year that starts in April, will use a small fuel rod that that will undergo a very rapid fission process, the spokesman said.

He said it will be the first such experiment to be carried out by the Japanese agency, although similar projects have been done in major nations with atomic power such as the United States and France…… jhttp://www.news.com.au/technology/science/japan-to-create-nuclear-meltdown-to-learn-how-to-deal-with-disasters-like-fukushima/story-fn5fsgyc-1226798533853

January 10, 2014 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized