Emergency power system kept them cool when the disaster struck. But the utilities directors decided on wednesday to the commission that the mayor of all cool now one of the towns hosting the plan acknowledges that it provided the community with jobs and an economic boost well face paris dollars with bella. Ali mosque that to the future and try to rebuild the community typical executives say they will scrap the reactors immediately. They want to train workers there and test technologies for de commissioning the reactors that suffered meltdowns theres another reason for them to keep the facilities the buildings of the two reactors have more than three thousand units of dangerous fuel rods and they have yet to decide how and where to dispose of them. They say it may take forty years to fully close the plant. The japanese government has begun to publicly solicit information on technologies that can help safely remove nuclear fuel debris from the plant. In twenty twenty or later japan plans
And Health Officials say women in china has died after contracting another strain of bird flu. A new set of safety guidelines for Nuclear Facilities other than power plants has come into effect. They will cover almost 250 facilities nationwide. The rules are much stricter than before, especially for Processing Plants. Operators will need to take similar measures against accident accidents as those who run nuclear plants. Nhk world has more. Reporter in total, 248 facilities across japan will be subject to the measures. The new rules apply to Nuclear Facilities such as a Nuclear Fuel Fabrication facility in tokai prefecture. Japans Nuclear Regulatory body, the nra, approved the rules last month in response to the 2011 accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant. Translator the new safety standards, while laid down, considering japans environmental conditions and other difficulties. I think they are strict enough. Reporter the severity of the requirements varies according to th
and have received security upgrades but none of them have completed the upgrades. this place on the map is where they make nuclear fuel fabrication, it s a nuclear fuel fabrication facility, and some fuel was smuggled all the way from down here into georgia in an infamous case in 2006, that was pretty chilling, right? right, in 2006 four people were seized selling almost a kilogram s worth of highly enriched uranium, weapons grade, really high-quality stuff. as a sample saying there was plenty more to come from. they traced it back to this area, which is which makes highly enriched uranium into fuel for some research reacts are. the fear is that there s a supply that has been stolen from this facility that still hasn t been detected. the people he was telling to were posing as terrorists and he was all too willing to sell it to them, right? it was a sting operation, and they said they were a radical islamic group and he was perfectly willing to sell it to them.