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  • Weakened Fukushima Nuclear Pool Is Not Unstable, Japan Insists

    05/26/2012 2:39:34 PM PDT · by SatinDoll · 9 replies
    MSNBC ^ | May 26, 2012 | MSNBC.com staff and news services
    Amid concerns of a new disaster should a quake destroy the pool cooling off radioactive nuclear fuel rods at Fukushima's Reactor No. 4, Japan on Saturday arranged a tour for journalists and declared the situation manageable -- but also very long term. "I don't think the situation is unstable," said Goshi Hosono, Japan's environment minister and the man in charge of the cleanup. He was speaking to reporters after his first tour of the twisted and partly destroyed building that houses the reactor. Hosono said he expected workers to begin removing fuel from the reactor's storage pool next year. Work...