Given enough resources, Lochbaum explained, even a highly radioactive site can be decontaminated so that people who were evacuated can move back.
An alarm at reactor number three earlier revealed the system had stopped at one of the pools containing spent, but highly radioactive, fuel rods.
The researchers fired a beam of calcium ions, each containing 20 protons, into a target of californium, a highly radioactive synthetic substance with 98 protons.
The system cooling water which contained spent - but still highly radioactive - nuclear fuel rods failed and it took engineers some 30 hours to repair the damage.
The scientists emphasize that LENR reactors are very different from the fission reactors employed today, which use highly radioactive elements, produce radioactive waste, and occasionally suffer from meltdowns.
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In early April, the cooling system at one of the pools containing spent - but highly radioactive - fuel rods in reactor number three broke down for about three hours.
Workers at the Fukushima Daiichi plant are attempting to remove highly radioactive water from a reactor building to allow repair work to the cooling systems knocked out on 11 March.
The first step is to get highly radioactive water out of the flooded basements of the units' turbine plants, then figure out how badly the equipment inside has been damaged.
The operation came a day after workers plugged a highly radioactive water leak from a concrete pit connected to the number two reactor, using sodium silicate - known as ''water glass''.
Tokyo Electric has been using colored powder to trace the source of highly radioactive water leaking into the ocean near Fukushima, which was damaged by an earthquake and tsunami last month.
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And anyway, most of that money went to establishing an excellent technical and scientific foundation for any deep geologic disposal site anywhere, especially for how to package and transport highly radioactive waste to wherever it will go.
You may also consider the factual history of the apartment building in Japan that was mistakenly constructed with some highly radioactive material, the inclusion of the radioactive construction material was not discovered until many years later, the residents were studied extensively for evidence of increased cancer.
Besides their headline findings, these reports also highlight a highly important yet radioactive issue that lurks in the background of contemporary immigration debates.
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The second utilizes a highly selective media to capture more radioactive elements in the presence of ions other than sodium, such as potassium, magnesium, and calcium, also through ion exchange process.
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This could prevent a worse disaster, but is still highly dangerous, even if winds blow most of the radioactive material out to sea.
Meanwhile, engineers are continuing to pump some 11, 500 tonnes of low-level radioactive seawater into the sea so the more highly contaminated water from reactor No 2 can be stored in waste buildings.
By April 6th TEPCO had managed to staunch the leakage of highly contaminated water from one of the damaged reactors that had produced levels of radioactive iodine 7.5m times the legal limit in one sample of seawater.
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