{"id":432691,"date":"2021-08-28T09:11:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-28T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=432691"},"modified":"2021-08-28T09:48:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-28T04:18:22","slug":"united-nations-team-unclear-if-fukushima-cleanup-can-finish-by-2051","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/united-nations-team-unclear-if-fukushima-cleanup-can-finish-by-2051\/","title":{"rendered":"United Nations team: Unclear if Fukushima cleanup can finish by 2051"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Too little is known about melted fuel inside damaged reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, even a decade after the disaster, to be able to tell if its decommissioning can be finished by 2051 as planned, a U.N. nuclear agency official said Friday. <\/p>\n<p>Honestly speaking, I don&#8217;t know, and I don&#8217;t know if anybody knows, said Christophe Xerri, head of an International Atomic Energy Agency team reviewing progress in the plant&#8217;s cleanup. <\/p>\n<p>He urged Japan to speed up studies of the reactors to achieve a better long-term understanding of the decommissioning process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Too little is known about melted fuel inside damaged reactors at the wrecked Fukushima nuclear power plant, even a decade after the disaster, to be able to tell if its decommissioning can be finished by 2051 as planned, a U.N. nuclear agency official said Friday. Honestly speaking, I don&#8217;t know, and I don&#8217;t know if anybody knows, said Christophe Xerri, head of an International Atomic Energy Agency team reviewing progress in the plant&#8217;s cleanup. He urged Japan to speed up studies of the reactors to achieve a better long-term understanding of the decommissioning process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-432691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}