IEEE Spectrum has had a number of lengthy articles over the past couple of years about Fukushima, its design, what happened, and what the prospects are.  Complete fix time estimate is 40 years.

IEEE Spectrum had thorough articles about Chernobyl also.

Louis Hart

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This is not exactly true. Nearly 40% of Switzerland's electricity is already nuclear. The oldest nuclear power plant is at Mühleberg and is of similar design to the reactors at Fukushima. All the others are more modern. Federal Councillor Doris Leuthardt had a knee-jerk reaction and persuaded the Federal Council to issue an ordinance, just two days after Fukushima, proposing a rapid phase-out of the nuclear power stations, starting with Mühleberg and finishing by 2020. This has since been much revised and the safety standards of all the power stations have been revised by the federal authority charged with nuclear security. In particular, the Mühleberg power station has been upgraded and is still operational but will probably be phased down within the next couple of years as a normal end-of-life procedure. I believe that the other power stations will be operational until at least 2030. There is also a moratorium forbidding the construction of new nuclear power stations until 2030, but this is being very disputed in Parliament because Switzerland may suffer from power shortages unless new nuclear power stations enter into at least the planning stage in the near future.

I don't know what the rules are, but I think Germany also had a knee-jerk reaction and wishes to stop using nuclear energy.

On 26/08/2014 18:35, Ahne Oosterhof wrote:

> PS: Switzerland decided against nuclear power because of the Fukushima 
> disaster!
>

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