Sunday, April 17, 2011

Japanese Nuclear Disaster: Timeline For Shutting Down Reactor -- To Start Shutting Down in Early 2012

Updates

May 7, 2012: Japan is nuclear-energy free. The last of 54 nuclear reactors was shut down. Japan is the first major economy in the modern world to be nuclear free. 

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The operators will be able to start shutting down the reactors in early 2012.
A two-phase plan that involves first plugging leaks and cooling the reactors, then shutting them down by the beginning of 2012 is the most concrete [no pun intended?] timetable offered yet for resolving Japan's worse nuclear crisis.
Our own Secretary of State Hillary Clinton helps draw up the plan.

I honestly did not know she also had training as a nuclear physicist.

Why do visions of "The Simpsons" suddenly flash across my mind?

I keep updates on the Japanese nuclear disaster here.

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