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Fukushima's Nuclear Reactor Fuel Is "Missing"
In the same week as Japan unveils its Pacific-Rim-esque anti-tsunami wall public works project, and Japanese government auditors say the operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has wasted more than a third of the 190 billion yen ($1.6 billion) in taxpayer money allocated for cleaning up the plant after it was destroyed by a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami; Science Journal reports, Fukushima won't be truly safe until engineers can remove the reactors' nuclear fuel. But first, they have to find it... And so, in February of this year two muon detectors were installed outside the Fukushima Daiichi unit-1 ruins at reactor vessel height for the purpose of finding that ‘missing’ reactor fuel.
First, as AP reports, Japanese government auditors say the operator of the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant has wasted more than a third of the 190 billion yen ($1.6 billion) in taxpayer money allocated for cleaning up the plant after it was destroyed by a March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
A Board of Audit report describes various expensive machines and untested measures that ended in failure. It also says the cleanup work has been dominated by one group of Japanese utility, construction and electronics giants despite repeated calls for more transparency and greater access for international bidders.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman Teruaki Kobayashi said all of the equipment contributed to stabilizing the plant, even though some operated only briefly.
Some of the failures cited in the report:
- FRENCH IMPORT: Among the costliest failures was a 32 billion yen ($270 million) machine made by French nuclear giant Areva SA to remove radioactive cesium from water leaking from the three wrecked reactors. The trouble-plagued machine lasted just three months and treated only 77,000 tons of water, a tiny fraction of the volume leaking every day. It has since been replaced with Japanese and American machines.
- SALT REMOVAL: Sea water was used early in the crisis to cool the reactors after the normal cooling systems failed. Machines costing 18.4 billion yen ($150 million) from several companies including Hitachi GE Nuclear Energy, Toshiba Corp. and Areva were supposed to remove the salt from the contaminated water at the plant. One of the machines functioned only five days, and the longest lasted just six weeks.
- SHODDY TANKS: TEPCO hurriedly built dozens of storage tanks for the contaminated water at a cost of 16 billion yen ($134 million). The shoddy tanks, using rubber seals and assembled by unskilled workers, began leaking and some water seeped into the ground and then into the ocean. The tanks are now being replaced with more durable welded ones.
- GIANT UNDERGROUND POOLS: A total of 2.1 billion yen ($18 million) was spent on seven huge underground pools built by Maeda Corp. to store the contaminated water. They leaked within weeks, and the water had to be transferred to steel tanks.
- UNFROZEN TRENCH: A 100 million yen ($840,000) project to contain highly contaminated water in a maintenance tunnel by freezing it failed because the water never completely froze. TEPCO subsidiary Tokyo Power Technology even threw in chunks of ice, but eventually had to pour in cement to seal the trench.
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So it is even more distressing that, as Science Journal reports, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, destroyed 4 years ago in explosions and meltdowns triggered by an earthquake and tsunami, won't be truly safe until engineers can remove the reactors' nuclear fuel. But first, they have to find it...
The image below is from a TEPCO handout (in Japanese). As expected, the Fukushima scans revealed no fuel in the reactor vessel.
Fukushima Update goes on to explain...
In February of this year two muon detectors from the High Energy Accelerator Research Organization [KEK] in Tsukuba, Japan were installed outside the Fukushima Daiichi unit-1 ruins at reactor vessel height for the purpose of finding that ‘missing’ reactor fuel.
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Now the plan is to go ahead and insert the new shape-changing robot in April to see if there is enough left of the control rod drive rail to get that robot onto the containment catwalk, where it should be able to circle inside the containment itself to collect more data about the location of the corium (melted fuel). Hopefully it’s still in the containment drywell, not having melted through the base pad into the lower level basement or ground below. If it exited the drywell it may have melted through the downcomer vents and into the torus in the first level basement, and some may have found its way into drains and drainpipes as one of the flows at Chernobyl did to produce the corium formation known as the “elephant’s foot.”
The geology at Chernobyl is quite different from Fukushima, having been built atop a solid granite bedrock rather than rock and gravel fill. The Chernobyl “elephant’s foot” formation exits a large drainpipe in what was the basement of that plant and melted 3 meters (~9 feet) into the granite. If the Fukushima unit-1 corium made it to the ground underneath the plant it is likely to have spread much further through the fill and be much more difficult to retrieve, even as the ‘underground river’ of groundwater that runs beneath the facility picks up contamination and takes it on out to the ocean. Decommissioning requires that all nuclear fuel – in whatever state – be removed from direct contact with the environment and safely isolated.
The unit-1 muon scans apparently also found some evidence that some fuel fragments may have been relocated from the reactor vessel to the spent fuel pool and refueling floor, though the precise nature of this evidence and how the fuel managed to get to these locations is not explained. If there is corium/fuel debris in these locations it will make cleanup in preparation for defueling the SFP more complicated, especially in light of the re-contamination of rice fields downwind during the cleanup of the unit-3 refueling floor. Now that the glorified ‘tent’ over unit-1 has been removed, cleanup of that mess is scheduled to start sometime in the next week.
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But apart from that, it's totally safe for the looming Olympics... which will include the individual three-and-a-half-legged sprint...
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Yea its probably floating in the pacific inside a mutated glowing green whale's gut.
http://total3d.ru/media/2012/08/Life-of-Pi-3.jpg
That or Obama bought it on craigslist and gifted it to Iran lol
Yesserie, that thar nukler fuel disappears 'bout quick as taxpayer money, it does.
I suspect they will 'find' the fuel in the last place they look......just like my missing truck keys this morning.
It's not missing. It is somewhere along a straight line drawn between the reactor and the center of the Earth.
...Fukushima's Nuclear Reactor Fuel Isn't "Missing"...you'll find it spreading across California's Coastline.
It has all become very clear to me now. The Pacific Rim - like wall Japan wishes to build isn't for tsunamis. It is in preparation for when an irradiated Godzilla emerges from the ocean to wreak carnage and havoc.
Sometimes you have to see the trees from the forest.
:-)
Tyler.
I hate misplacing posts.
Why don't you expose the September 6, 2011, Nuclear Accident at San Onofre, California?
I swear to God, Tyler.
At times I think that either I anticipate you or you are reading my mind!!!
Here is the text from the thread on Synder's 9 Maps.
In fact San Onofre is probably still one of the most dangerous plants in the country due to the excessive temperatures and pressures that blew out the seals in the coolant pipe connections, and fractured some of the coolant pipes, during the September 6, 2011 Power Grid down event.
It was operating at maximum capacity during that time as Power Demand was extreme due to a heat wave. When the switch was inadvertently thrown by an Arizona Public Service employee some 300 miles away...Well that took out the Southwest Power Grid.
And San Onofre could not power down fast enough. Nobody expected that catastrophic failure.
Of course this was, and continues to be, covered up by the NRC (due to the bad reports being received out of Fukushima) It would have sent shockwaves of anti nuke sentiment throughout the nation.
It is the Nuke Plant accident that will not ever be exposed by our controlled media. It almost took out San Diego County. We were moments away from a Fukushima style event right here...WHERE I LIVE.
But "The Reader", here in San Diego, exposed some of the story, and gave enough information to put together as to what actually happened.
San Onofre never went back online after that event, and I told another fine contributor (who also is here) that it would not...over on another forum which we share.
(Of course that event had absolutely nothing to do with it....nothing to do with it...at all. It was all just...just...just a "coincidence".)
But I guess that he was not privy to the same information that I had at the time.
So with that...Just where are you at ConanTheLibertarian? Let's continue our debate that we started over on the Kitco Forums many years ago.
Shit I ought to do a Kitco search for that debate.
Public Relations and image is much more important to the NRC, as the Power Companies OWN THEM, rather than safe Nuke Plant Operations. It is just as bad as with the with the FTC overseeing the Financial Markets. The large banks OWN the FTC.
Really. Just what do you expect from your Government? The truth?.
Blowing a seal can get messy indeed. I usually leave that job to the enviro-phreakz.
Fortunately for them, there are losts of seals that need blowing, near the "tits"
The Yakuza do not care about the Japanese people and much less about the American citizens across the pond.
They are dumping the rods secretly in the ocean, and in the back of their minds saying..
'I have avenged you grandfather, I have avenged you...'
I was wondering WTF floated up on the Malibu Beach the other day.
Now I know.
Conspiracy theories aside, there is no mention of this event on the NRC daily event reports. This is the NRC that reported the Davis Besse issues of pressure vessel erosion, as well as the rolling trips of at least 9 nuclear plants during the Northeast Blackout of 2003. If you dig around on the archives you can find several reports of loss of coolant into primary containment in excess of the established limits; how is this event different from those such that it would warrant non-reporting and a coverup?
Remember our recent discussion about mankind being an evolutionary dead end maybe?
If even the disciplined, laborious and intelligent Japanese, well aware they only have this island, are acting that way...
These people will not even acknowledge their atrocities from WWII. You really think they'll fess up to this? We all gonna get Nanking'd.
We Nanking'd some folks.
There's a certain passivity of character when it comes to 'authority' in Japan. They are wonderful people, but I can't imagine mass protests in the streets and a general strike, even over an issue as important as this.
This saddeneds me. I had intended to go back there again, but Fukishima changed all that. I don't trust any of the reports on how the country has been impacted from the radiation release. They have constantly lied.
It's because the fighters among them were all killed out by the statist a long time ago. The strongest among them now prefer to be left alone.
This si what happens in modern civilizations when men are looked at as being dangerous. The strong ones disconnect from everything to avoid dealing with the harassment.
Shhhhh thats not radioactive waste , its global warming, shut up and pay your carbon tax after you shovel the snow off your sidewalk to avoid a ticket for pilling snow into the road to get your car out.
Water actually can't become radioactive. It can have radioactive isotopes floating in it, but it's impossible for the molecule itself to become radioactive.
Corium tubes filing with water at whatever temperature the coriums are at now (5,000 deg. C?)- it's no wonder that they saw strange fog hovering about the buildings the other night.
Full current and past video library of strange things going on at Fukushima:
http://enenews.com/forum-fukushima-webcam-discussion-thread-dec-26-1013-...
Hope that this link will work,
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com.au/
How hard can it be to find something that's so massively radioactive? Just turn on your geiger counter and move in the direction where the noise is the greatest. TEPCO's CEO should be the guy holding the geiger counter first...When he's fried, just keep going down the chain of command.
They don't want to find it, cause they know fuck-all what to do if they do find it.
It's all over the news ISIS stole it and have since sold it to Putin .
i think we can all agree that that looks like a man sitting down with a monstrous throbbing erection pointing skyward. Aporpos of the fact that we are so fucked.
Well, I didn't see this at first, but thank you, thank you for the imagery.
I'm making over $7k a month working part time. I kept hearing other people tell me how much money they can make online so I decided to look into it. Well, it was all true and has totally changed my life. This is what I do... www.globe-report.com
You're mucking out Fukushima and only getting 7000 a month?
That's like... 58 bucks for your lifetime of maximum radiation exposure. So, yeah, I can see how it is only part time.
The Nuke Fuel is on ebay and I am the high bidder bitch!
Well with 12 seconds left I'll bid and get it to run the farm. Flux Capacitor bitch!
Certainly not bullish for the Pacific food chain.
But on TV one lady said swimming in the Pacific Ocean prevents breast cancer.
http://enenews.com/expert-disease-outbreak-west-coast-largest-ever-in-an...
Maybe this is why they have to build a wall.
Have they looked under the sofa? That's where I usually find stuff.
Time for some Thomas Dolby. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ys7EpQ9tFi4
kinda reminds me of a singing Borg (Star Trek next Gen)
I know it probably sounds counterintuitive, but what if this site were nuked?
With a bomb. About the size and threshold of the ones dropped on those other two wastelands, Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Poof, a big mushroom cloud, a little nuke fallout, spread everywhere equally.
How bad could it be.
Edit..( how much worse?)
Peanut gallery.. Please proceed.
It's a bad idea. It's not like turning hydrogen into helium.
Not a good idea.Fukushima contains 1000th of times the fuel the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs held.
Actually, most of the fuel and spent fuel all went up in the blast and Spent Fuel Pool fires. Thousands of tons of enriched uranium and plutonium gone up and out into the biosphere.
What's left of the cores is bad, but only a fraction of what has blown around the earth.
The explosions were hydrogen explosions, not nuclear.
Spent fuel rod fires were a worry, but I don't recall that they actually happened?
Maybe my memory is bad?
The spent fuel rods were all removed from one of the storage pools recently,
but there are more fuel rods still remaining from the other reactor storage pools.
As I remember it, the danger is from fuel rods melted down; which did not BURN up.
That actually happened. It went unreported except for places like ENEnews.
There were sporadic reports of "neutron beams" and reports from watchers like Fairwinds, of short-lived fission products, indicating uncontrolled crriticality in the corium. I also recall a video showing a sputtering blue light on the horizon, like an arc welder, but it was photographed from some kilometers away. Probably one of the criticality events.
It's as close to the "China Syndrome" as possible, but it's more sort of a "Rio Syndrome" given the location..
Apparently not all of the spent fuel pools burned, but the one in Unit 4 clearly did, in addition to the reactor meltdowns. Overall, I think it is at least 3 or 4 times worse than Chernobyl.
There were no fires in any of the spent fuel pools.
Those two cities are not wastelands at all, they are in fact, bustling cities.
Not for much longer. The Japanese trucked Fukushima waste all over the country for burning in Waste Fired Power Plants. Not to mention what they get when the wind blows inland from Fukushima.
They intend to kill everyone at about the same time.
And the radioactive metal that has been recovered is being completely absorbed into the Japanese metal recycling markets for worldwide distribution.
How about a nice Wagyu beef burger ... now with extra tumors?
So were Hiroshima, and Nagasaki.
Hiroshima, and Nagasaki were full of civilians and innocent children ...
Exactly my point.
Not a good idea.Fukushima contains 1000th of times the fuel the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs held.
Pretty sure that's exactly what happened in the first place (hydrogen explosion my ass) and the "missing" fuel is spread all over the Japanese country side and Pacific Ocean.
The birth rate is dropping in Japan below the level needed to keep the population stable.
The demographics there are getting older...
thus I think it is the right place to experiment with nukes...what have they got to lose? Old People?
But let's get the good looking hot girls out first just in case it doesn't work.
Here, you can watch which way the winds blow. (You can move the globe around by clicking on it.)
http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/500hPa/overlay=temp/o...
Nice. Japan has a batch of ASIMO dirty bombs.
May it all surface in a nice perimeter around the zionist overlords.
Israel has taken it to make more nuclear weapons. Or maybe Iran.
Either way this is all good
This is really, really old news, but it is still welcome to have it being put out to the public. Right from the day of the accident, the three nuclear cores began to melt down and escape their containment vessels, then they went through the concrete containment floors, and hence into the ground. Nobody knows where they are, because nobody can approach their locality, and robots too would be fried.
Much of the radio active water is ground water flowing over exposed cores and following water tables into the sea and other paths of flow.
One gentleman who was an engineer who cleaned up the Three Mile Island plant, said recently that clean up at Fukushmia would require an entire new generation of engineering and development, the present state of those fields can't cope with this plants problems. He guessed 50 years if all went well and new technologies were invented. New radiation resistant robots etc. His point was the same as mine. Three cores melted into the ground, "how on earth do you clean them up"?
What is worse, is that over these next 50 years, it is certain another massive quake will hit, then more damage!
The cores are bad, the spent fuel is even more dangerous at present. It could cause terrible disaster if not dealth with.
It seems to me the three cores will sit deep in the ground and slowly cook away giving off radiation via ground water. Maybe for 100 years or more.!
"Ellie."
Above Top Secret...
Your right Jack... It is somewhat disturbing though how many find it humorous.
Four years old, to be precise, and what's left on site will be radioactive for a billion+ years.
Naturally, what is blown across the world will also be radioactive for a billion+ years. And chances are pretty high, if you live in the Northern Hemisphere, that you have enough in your lungs now to kill at least a dozen people, with more coming in our food and water.
Our overlords have created Hell On Earth.
If only it had fallen from the sky we could call it "Wormwood" and tick off a "bible prophecy" from our lists.
CHERNOBYL.
The longer the half-life, the less intense the radiation.
Short half-life isotopes are more dangerous, in the intensity.
then more damage
What exactly can get more damaged anymore, of those ex-cores?
They need to remove the spent fuel rods and otherwise nothing can be done. Except maybe pray no vulcano erupts at Fuku, as that's about the only way I can imagine the "corium" could get blown up into the atmosphere which would be the ultimate disaster.
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Yep, but hey, no problem. By the year 2000, They® will figure out how to dispose of it safely.
One small bit of good news there is that the spent fuel from the reactor #4 spent fuel pool (the one in danger of collapsing) has been removed to a ground level pool.
http://rt.com/news/202367-fukushima-spent-fuel-removed/
Careful, 'american' readers, the story is from RT, so it must be propaganda, all part of a plot by Big Poppa Commie to annex Canada.
The Ruskies used concrete, no? We have the technology to dig a big trench between the mainland and the plant. We have the technology to fill said trench with concrete. We have the technology to pour a concrete wall on the ocean side. We have the technolgoy to tunnel underneath and pour a concrete floor.
Even if we can't recover it, we can wall it off and cover it until the day we have the technology to perform the recovery. It probably won't cost any more than a 250 mile sea wall that is 41 feet high.
The cores would melt through the concrete so this is a no go.
The cores are most dangerous when they are hot and compact and concentrated.
If the cores become scattered over a large area and un-concentrated,
they will sooner become cooled and less dangerous, no longer in a melted condition, no longer melting thru concrete, easier to contain,
but a larger containment area will be necessary.
Natural rock formations probably better than concrete containment.
Reactors perhaps should have been placed above the peak of a solid rock conical hill, perhaps better than in a geological pit, for melt-down considerations, although a larger containment area would be necessary.
Is there any reactor design available now that can withstand such a powerful earthquake and tsunami?
There sure is. It's called don't build your f'n reactor next to an ocean. But, if you're going to be that guy that does build your reactor next to the ocean then put your back up generators above the 500 year flood plain.
I believe it's clear what's happening. The Japanese are summoning Godzilla.
Japs are smart...May be not.
GE had a lot to do with it, too.
GE: We bring good things to light. (When they're not supposed to).
"How sure are you of these results, Professor?"
"We cannot tell for sure. However- look at this graph, Mr Secretary."
"There is a rise in accidents, technical failures of metal parts..."
"The radiation from Fukoshima went everywhere, sir. In the air. The sea. It's everywhere."
"Then,,,"
"Yes. The world's aircraft fleet is suffering increasing metal fatigue from the Japanese radiation. In a year, maybe two, most aircraft now flying will have to be grounded."
"Keep up the research, Professor-- and this is now Classified Compartmented."
"Yessir."
Where is Godzilla when you need him?
I'm sure it's possible at least one of the explosions from the reactor buildings could have been the fuel exiting the containment building and finding groundwater.
it's actually effecting the weather over here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djItGln6IxY
It's not surpising that solutions would go badly there. How do you find anyone to do the work?
They make the homeless and retarded (not kiding) do the work.
..we fuel rodded some folks... Ok alot of folks...
Check the nervous and digestive systems of the hundreds of sick sea lions washing up on California's shores:
http://boingboing.net/2015/03/13/starving-sea-lions-are-washing.html
Nuclear Power is so efficient, cheap and safe according to the environmentalists that hate the earth manufactured crude.
And they want more of these monsters. Of course the new digital technology will smooth out the small bumps in the road. BS. I repair broke digital crap every day.
Humans are not responsible enough to operate this machinery. The corporate quest to cheap out on every little thing makes these things and just about everything else they operate and do,,, dangerous.
I don't think it was a very good idea to build those plants there. They immediately lost their backup generators from flooding which were meant to power the pumps. It amazes me that these engineers missed the most basic things. These units should never be built into the ground. They'd be better off elevated off the ground to gain access to the very bottom of the containment building. You could capture the fuel and solids coming throught the bottom on a melt through, move it from the area and disperse the mass. You needn't expose that to outdoors, either. That whole area could be captured in a containment area. The French have apparently designed a fail safe reactor, where if the fuel rods begin to overheat, they are quickly managed and split off from the mass, resulting in an automatic shutdown, even in the event of total loss of water circulation. With these much safer designs available, you have to wonder why they gamble with the designs they now or have used. Totally foolish if there's a cost factor considered, because look what they're spending now.
The readouts from the Fukushima plant were saying that the backup generators were working and that everything inside the reactor had shut down properly, no overheating problems at all - while it was in the process of exploding.
Eerily similar to what Stuxnet did to Iran.
Blaming the tsunami is little more than convenience.
I did see that conspiracy theory somewhere on the internet ...
Over 4 years passed since Fukushima disaster and latest “Science” report only confirms worst fears.
Quick recapitulation of situation:
Two of four reactors suffered complete melt down, one partial meltdown and fourth which was not operational at that time still has big spent fuel problem which cannot be removed, posing threat of explosion if another disaster hits.
In four years what they accomplished was merely pouring water on cores of melted reactors and pumping it into hundreds of storage tanks build in the vicinity of NPP while having no clue what to do with it. Attempts to decontaminate it failed.
The vessel containments of melted down reactors have failed. They developed concrete cracks as well damage of pressure piping during disaster and in aftermath. Through those fissures some of nuclear fuel and highly contaminated water’s pouring into ground water system. The fact of bridging containment vessel (prelude to China syndrome) alone leads to horrifying conclusions that the problem is unfixable at all, short of currently impossible task of removing all melted nuclear fuel from vessel and/or wherever it went. The truth that anyone involved in mitigation of this disaster wouldn’t even utter.
On the top of it after four years TEPCO does not have good account of state of melted down reactors or complete list of damages, since supposedly world leading powerhouse robotics nation cannot produce one dammed good robot that would work in such extreme conditions. Several attempts to deploy robots have been proven complete failure.
It is shocking but they simply do not know what to do. They are in loss, confusion and panic. There is neither plan, nor technology invented yet to tackle the problem. In desperation thousand retired workers indebted to Japanese mafia are being sent there into these reactors, for two minutes each, to senselessly die on orders of Japanese Oligarchs. It is that bad.
Since rate of process of removing radiation from highly contaminated water is many times lower that rate of pumping newly contaminated water into new, freshly built storage tanks, the whole effort is hopeless from engineering point of view. All this is just Sisyphus work, which lead to nowhere since they have to keep pumping water to cool and moderate fission material inside leaky damaged reactors so they will not blow up again. Now many those tanks are also leaking profusely back to ground water adding to chaos. All the contaminated water leaked from reactor vessels and storage tanks ends up in the ocean continually bleeding radiation and all frantic attempts of preventive measures such as “ice wall” utterly failed.
Japanese MSM media, in 1984 style propaganda of changing past to control present, covers up gruesome reality of the Fukushima situation with its human implications, not to mention ignores severe problems with remaining 100 aging Japanese nuclear reactors put offline after 03/11/2011. The official talk about Fukushima NPP decommission process planned for about four decades supposedly already started is a cruel fairy tale in context of utterly hopeless situation on the ground. The apparent inertia and indifference of the government, busy destroying Japanese economy with QE, cannot be explained in any other way than deliberated criminal, genocidal act against Japanese nation and world community unless you believe in fairy tales.
I hope that this madness will end but I do not see how, with perpetrators of disaster still in charge.
For Japanese failed policies regarding Fukushima and wider historical context:
https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/japan-miracle-that-wasnt/
Situation at some US nuclear power plants and decommission efforts:
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/devils-good-intentions/
and propaganda lies about renewable and nuclear energy at:
https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/engineering-renewable-delusions/
The price of this... thing (I can't find the proper qualification) is gonna be paid especially by our children.
A World effort would have been necessary for damage control, but hey, our "leaders" are waging their (our) money and weapons (including nukes) to each other like Fukushima had never happened. They kill more quickly; however, Fukushima is gonna be killing for years and years long after we're all gone.
Amazing the extent of human stupidity; the supidest, in charge. Einstein was so right.
some of the radioactive material being leaked has a half life of 250,000 years. This little tiny Island may very well fuck up two thirds of the planet we call it the oceans.
I think you are right about most of it,
but they did recently remove all the spent fuel rods from one of the storage pools.
More yet to remove from other pools.
Yes they did, if you believe their reports which are 90% lies so far, but did they make it safe? They have no idea neither in Japan nor in US where to safely and permanently store it. Disaster is still waiting to happen.
The last link contains this line:
The solar power technology is about 400 times more expensive than fossil fuels and its production requires burning a lot of fossil fuels somewhere in China.
Utter bollocks. Sufficient solar cells to completely repalce my current utility bills will cost me about 3 years, worth of said bills.
And what's to stop 'em from setting up a solar powered solar cell factory somewhere where they have a lot of sand (raw material) and sun (energy). In addition the solar collector to run the factory will provide useful shade..
A combination of solar and energy management could provide for all our needs, particualarly if they actually implement a viable feed-in scheme so that in summer the over abundance of a solar array set to provide for ones needs in winter would provide...
Trouble is you are lead by war pigs rather than people like me.
#Fukushima
https://twitter.com/search?f=realtime&q=%23Fukushima&src=hash
Something with the title of this article and the following aren't jiving..
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TEPCO completes fuel removal at Fukushima Daini plantFUKUSHIMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Tuesday it has completed the removal of fuel from the Fukushima Daini plant's four reactors but will continue stably cooling the fuel taken to the storage pools."
http://mainichi.jp/english/english/newsselect/news/20150325p2g00m0bu0320...
Either TEPCO is right, that everything is under control and the world is fine, or it's all out of control and the world is fucked.
There is no middle ground with that much exploded and burnt nuclear fuel.
Take your pick.
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This article is about the Fukushima Daiichi plant. The removal of reactor fuel referred to by the linked article happened at the Fukushima Daiini plant, which is south of the much more extensively damaged Daiichi plant.
Aha.. great catch. Thank you for the clarification.
Hope they don't lose the robot.
The one they developed for 3 b$ and works so far only on paper... ?
Thanks to Japanese ingenuity, Californians can now plug their appliances directly into the pacific for electricity. GE we bring good things to life! *sings*
I've got an idea, ding ding!! Evacuate Japan ( the Russians can offer lodgings on its land mass ) and ALL THE SPENT NUCLEAR FUEL WORLDWIDE can be dropped by plane onto the now uninhabited island.
Mind you i haven't thought over the long term implications of my thesis , however, when did long term critical thinking stand in the way of Progress?
Duke duke duke, duke of earl duke duke, duke of of earl duke duke . . . .
Have any of the TEPCO officials or Japanese politicians committed Sepukku over this? If not then it looks like the Japanese psyche has undergone mutation beyond genetics.
Actual transcript of Tepco officials strategy meeting to determine best way to handle the crisis:
"Oh herro! So solly fol ladiation! Roundeye we no try fix but no doing it long! Ree no lieing! Ree plovide insluction bookret -just hundled pages rong, it say, if unsatisfactoly, you bring to factoly, (so solly, too rong- me no readie) so rotsa ruck! We hope you haf nice day! So solly, ree wirr need stalt dumping 1000 tons ladioactive water into Pacific evely day.
Howevel, we ASSULE you ladiation rever of water is safe!
The leason we assule you this because evely time leading go highel, we decrare higher revel is now safe!
Ree no lieing! So solly fol ladiation! So solly!" -End transcript, TEPCO strategy meeting
PS-The Japanese believe that saving face is all that matters, and the worst thing you could possibly do is be honest with people when conflict arises.
Japan should have nationalized TEPCO and did it the right way - the way soviet union did in Chernobyl with all country working to fix the problem by forcing army and specialist to do their duty
Only White Men can function effectively in disasters of that magnitude.
Jim Stone might have an idea where this "missing" fuel is....
Jim Stone has been pounding the 'sabotage!' table from nearly day one. I'm sure that every national leader reads or has his staff read Jim Stone's newspage.
Why oh why didn't we go with Thorium reactors? Oh ya... fuel for NUKES... seems we're damned either way as a species. Not so smart after all I suppose.
This contradicts what the US and Japan govs said, therefore I refuse it.
They dont have the technology and methods to correcting this problem developed yet. An uprecedented disaster and you have corp and gov coverup instead of raising the white flag and asking for urgent help, yea this will end just fine.
The hydrogen explosion explanation regarding Fukushima is a red hering: there was at least one obvious nuclear explosion at Fukushima: just do search for videos of Fukushima explosions: The second huge explosion is identical in all its characteristics to a nuclear explosion. This ejected massive amounts of radiation including plutonium into global environment. Even the USS Reagan was contaminated very badly miles away: many sailors now sick and dying.
Jeff Rense at Rense.com has interviewed Dana Durnford every week for weeks as Durnford travels by sea along British Columbia's coastline. Durnford describes most previous-to-Fukushima flora and fauna as missing, Gone. Thousands of species. Nuclearproctologist.org
Will.the radiation make my 3rd leg longer? Better than a pump and Viagra!