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This satellite image of the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant in Japan, taken by DigitalGlobe on March 17, shows damage to the Units 1, 3, and 4 reactor buildings.
Friday, Apr. 15, 2011

Open quoteWe are baffled over what kind of technology would allow everything to be finished in 10 years.Close quote

  • YUICHI IZUMISAWA,
  • a Hitachi spokesman in Tokyo, saying that a 10-year time frame to clean up the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is overly optimistic; the company's engineers expect it will take that long just to ready the fuel rods for transport to a safe storage facility
Photo: REUTERS/DigitalGlobe/Handout | Source: NYT