Japan lacks decommissioning experts for Fukushima No. 1
International team needed, the sooner the better: experts  by
Yuri Kageyama   Japan is incapable of safely decommissioning the
devastated Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant alone and must stitch
together an international team for the massive undertaking,
experts say.  However, only halting progress has been made so
far.  Unlike the United States and some European countries,
Japan has never decommissioned a full-fledged reactor. Now it
must do so at Fukushima No. 1. When the reactors melted down
after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, what is ordinarily a
technically challenging operation became much more complex.  The
cloud over Japan’s capacity to get the decades-long job done has
further undermined the image of the nuclear industry with the
public. Opinion surveys show a majority of people are opposed to
restarting the 50 reactors that were put offline for safety and
other checks since the disaster started. The nation has been
forced to import oil and gas t