Nine-Month Plan Is Set for Crippled Japan Nuclear Plant

[jpak]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/world/asia/18japan.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Tokyo Electric Power Company said Sunday that it hopes to bring the reactors at its hobbled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant into a stable state known as cold shutdown within the next nine months, during which the three damaged reactor buildings at the facility will be covered.
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The goals are part of a two-part plan that represents Tokyo Electric’s most concrete timetable yet for controlling the reactors and improving safety conditions at the plant, which was damaged by 15-meter-high tsunami waves on March 11.

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The first part of the plan would take about three months and include installing a cooling system to lower the temperature in the reactors and spent fuel pools, as well as reducing radiation in the surrounding area, said Tsunehisa Katsumata, the chairman of Tokyo Electric.

The second part, which would take up to six more months, would include more pumping of water, the introduction of a heat removal system and reducing the amount of contaminated water. The wreckage from the three damaged buildings would then be removed and the buildings covered.

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[Warren Stupidity]

1. After which it gives birth to Godzilla?

[thereismore]

2. More like death. nt

[FBaggins]

3. I'm interested to see what form this "cover" takes

Weren't they at one point talking about a flexible material?

[Wilms]

4. Sheets

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2011/04/83374.html

Maybe Christo can help. :shrug:

[GliderGuider]

5. I hear that's what the pyramids really are.

Those wrappings on the mummies aren't burial shrouds, they're hazmat suits from 2000 BC...