No shit. TIL Fukushima is still operating. I thought 2011 turned the place chernobyl.
Believe it or not, Chernobyl also continued to operate after the accident. The last unit was finally shut down in 2000, 14 years after the disaster.
It’s not still running, it’s being decommissioned. But doing that are people, and those people technically work at the powerplant. The phrasing is pretty bad.
Chernobyl on the other hand just kept running for another 14 years.
It takes decades and usually billions to decommission and deconstruct a nuclear power plant that hasn’t blown up. If parts of it blew up, it will take even longer and more money.
Heck i recently saw an article that the full deconstruction of a nuclear power plant in Germany that operated for 16 years will take at least 50 years by the current estimate.
It takes decades and usually billions to decommission and deconstruct a nuclear power plant that hasn’t blown up.
Lol I live a stone throw away from a nuke facility thats been in deconstruction since 1980 and just entered phase 2 this year.
However, my comment was about being surprised it was still an operating nuclear power plant not about how long it takes to clean up or decommission a nuclear power plant.
Fukushima 2: Electric Boogaloo
The plant’s operator said all 4,000 of its workers had been evacuated, adding that there were no “abnormalities” detected.
Didn’t they take these plants offline?
I heard they are using the control rooms as training facilities. Two of the units were offline at the time the tsunami hit and are basically fine.
