Good News From Fukushima, In The Guardian Of All Places

#Energy The Guardian is rather where you expect to find the more radical environmentalists, the ones that splutter that nuclear power is of the very devil. And there's certainly enough of them in the comments section of this article today. But the article itself is full of rather good news even if it's not presented in quite that manner.

Moving the radioactive fuel from the wrecked building to a more secure site became a high priority. Some fuel assemblies have already been moved. Workers use a crane to reach down into the pool, lift an assembly from its rack, then lower it into a waiting cask that sits upright on the pool floor. When a cask is full ? each can take 22 fuel assemblies ? a second crane hoists it from the pool and places it on a trailer. Filled casks are then transported to a more secure storage facility on the site.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/12/04/good-news-from-fukushima-in-the-guardian-of-all-places/ http://bit.ly/15KdByZ