18th March 2011, 07:43 AM
I am watching internet pictures of loads of water being tipped onto the Japanese nuclear power station....but I am wondering. The uranium/plutonium used in this station is likely to continue reacting for 200 years or so unless stifled by boron or something similar. Are they going to continue the water treatment for that long? And where is all this contaminated water going. It looked to me as if it was going back into the sea, but I guess it could also be soaking into the ground and therefore the water table....Isn't that a big big problem building up there?
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