Saturday
Mar112017
Struggling With Japan’s Nuclear Waste, Six Years After Disaster
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As reported by Motoko Rich in the New York Times.
The artice reports the following breakdown of radioactive waste categories and quantities:
400 tons of contaminated water per day (which has grown over the years into an inventory of 962,000 tons of contaminated water, stored in 1,000 giant tanks; this volume continues to grow by the day);
3,519 Containers of Radioactive Sludge;
64,700 Cubic Meters of Discarded Protective Clothing;
Branches and Logs From 220 Acres of Deforested Land;
200,400 Cubic Meters of Radioactive Rubble;
3.5 Billion Gallons of Soil;
1,573 [Irradiated, Highly Radioactive] Nuclear Fuel [Assemblies].
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