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Cleaning Up Fukushima: A Challenge To The Core

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Workers at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant spray a substance to help reduce dust on April 1. The cleanup operation at the facility could take more than a decade.

The Japanese government raised its assessment of the crisis at Japan's stricken Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant to the highest possible level. And it could take more than 10 years and $10 billion to clean it up. Though engineers know how to handle the basic operations, nobody's ever tried a nuclear cleanup on this scale before.

(Image credit: TEPCO)


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