Japan Needs Olympic Pool-Sized Storage Space to Contain Radioactive Sludge

[homasse]

Japan Needs Olympic Pool-Sized Storage Space to Contain Radioactive Sludge

Tokyo Electric Power Co., which is struggling to contain the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years, has another crisis on its hands: finding storage for enough radioactive sludge to fill an Olympic-sized swimming pool.The utility known as Tepco plans to start decontaminating

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[oudeteron]

...ugh. It's horrible enough that something as obviously problematic as storing the waste is the least pressing problem there right now.

And to think this is to be expected when nuclear energy goes wrong. Not worth this level of lasting damage at all.