Fukushima - ignored by the media

Vermont Yankee and Pilgrim Nuclear in Plymouth, both run by Entergy, are of the same design and age as Fukushima.



Heads up! The corporate-run media is silent; CLG is not. Tepco to conduct plutonium-infused fuel removal test at reactor 4 04 Nov 2013 The utility had intended to start removing the fuel rods from the unit's packed cooling pool as early as Friday. The test was requested by the Japan Nuclear Energy Safety Organization. The government-affiliated agency called for an initial test that would include transporting a protective fuel cask from the No. 4 storage pool to another pool in a different building about 100 meters away, to provide more stable conditions for cooling spent fuel, the sources said. More than 1,300 spent fuel assemblies and more than 200 fresh ones, including some containing plutonium-infused mixed-oxide fuel, remain in the pool.