Workers at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex positioned sandbags and concrete barriers around drains leading from the plant Tuesday, setting a last line of defense against highly radioactive water that has flooded reactor buildings and threatens to spill into the ocean.
At the same time, Japanese officials said Tuesday they would keep dousing the plant’s stricken reactors with water—a course of action that could raise those water levels further.
At the heart of the day’s official moves lies a calculated choice between bad and worse: To meet their goal of keeping reactors cool enough to forestall a nuclear catastrophe, officials appear willing to risk letting some highly radioactive water spill out of vents that are positioned some 50 to 70 yards from the sea…
At the heart of the day’s official moves lies a calculated choice between bad and worse: To meet their goal of keeping reactors cool enough to forestall a nuclear catastrophe, officials appear willing to risk letting some highly radioactive water spill out of vents that are positioned some 50 to 70 yards from the sea.
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