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ALL SPENT FUEL REMOVED FROM FUKUSHIMA NO.4 REACTOR

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ALL SPENT FUEL REMOVED FROM FUKUSHIMA NO.4 REACTOR

As I understand it from reading about this, the spent fuel is rather trivial, compared to the real problem, the melted down cores. It's sort of like "the car in my garage may explode at any second.... but I sent the bomb squad in there, and they successfully got my groceries out of the trunk."

The Los Angeles Times reports that we may be trading one evil for another with all of the potential waste generated from the life-cycle of a solar panel. While maybe not as harmful as mountaintop removal from coal or emissions emitted from the millions of cars on the road, the generation of electricity from solar does have its own dark side.Huge amounts of fossil fuels are used in the manufacture of the cells and, just like many other electronics, the waste metals not used in production also present their own disposal problems, mercury and chromium being two of the top problem-makers. We've also reported before that the installation of solar panels also includes toxic materials like the PVC and glues used in the conduit.