First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant
It took 10 years to even get a robot that could get close to the fuel... and people still ask if nuclear might not be as bad as coal!<p>The truth is that accidents like this can <i>never</i> be cleaned up or salvaged. It's time to move away from nuclear, as other countries have already figured out.<p>Fortunately for us in the US, the last nuclear plant under construction today will likely be cancelled, as the last two were. There are no plans to build another one here. That doesn't relieve of us of the chance of a homegrown Fukushima on American soil, but it shows that the future isn't nuclear for environmental and cost reasons -- of which "decommissioning" costs billions, even if there's no meltdown.