JAPANESE engineers have conceded that burying a crippled nuclear plant in sand and concrete may be the only way to prevent a catastrophic radiation release.
However, rather than resort to the method used to seal Chernobyl in 1986, they still hope to end the crisis by fixing a power cable to two reactors by some time today in order to restart water pumps needed to cool overheating nuclear fuel rods at the Fukushima plant.
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