Warning to all Arabian countries embracing nuclear energy: More than 10 years to remove fuel rods from Fukushima reactor and 30 years to solve the problem

The government of Japan reports that the shut down of the reactor has been achieved and temperatures are below100°C. Tepco, the owner of the power station, says it will take at least 10 years to remove the fuel rods, only then decommissioning can be started which will take another 20 years. There are 30 years ahead to solve the problem. [1]

According to Reinhard Uhrig, a nuclear expert at Gobal 2000, it is much worse than that. The fuel rods melted, burned through the pressure compartment and lie as a clot on the bottom of the outer encasement, developing there temperatures up to 3000°C. The reactor is far from being stable.

Uranium mining, spills of radioactive material, disaster at nuclear power stations, decommissioning of power stations and unsolved handling of nuclear waste are environmental burden and costs to which the nuclear lobby remain resolutely silent. The lobby of the nuclear energy is part of the easy money system which disregards safety and interests of the global population. There are safe energy technologies available.

[1] AKW Fukushima laut Regierung unter Kontrolle Spiegel Online 16.Dez 2011.
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/technik/0,1518,804082,00.html