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Fukushima - an even bigger more costly disaster than you could imagine !! (1 Viewer)

Chosun Juan

Given to Fly
Australia - Aboriginal
Nearly 6 years on, To paraphrase:

Not all contaminated areas will ever be cleaned up; the $70 Billion currently allocated will need to be quadrupled (or more); there is no way to clean all the continually increasing contaminated water of tritium; the radioactive cores that melted down have not been located; and the technology to deal with them and secure them from contaminating the environment further does not even exist yet ....

Fan-bl**dy-tas-tic ay?!! :storm:

It looks like this will take more money than god has, to fix

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-...-up,-compensation-costs-nearly-double/8127268
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2015/s4468353.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_disaster_cleanup

Of great concern is that, I recall seeing at the time, reports that US Reactors located on the geologically unstable west coast had only been designed for 7.0 level quakes ........ cross your fingers folks, in fact, cross everything ......


Chosun :gh:
 
Thank you for posting this.

Some of us have harped on this for some time. To this point our own government's lack of attention and reporting of this event is beyond shameful.

"Nothing to see here, move along..."
 
Nearly 6 years on, To paraphrase:

Not all contaminated areas will ever be cleaned up; the $70 Billion currently allocated will need to be quadrupled (or more); there is no way to clean all the continually increasing contaminated water of tritium; the radioactive cores that melted down have not been located; and the technology to deal with them and secure them from contaminating the environment further does not even exist yet ....

Fan-bl**dy-tas-tic ay?!! :storm:

It looks like this will take more money than god has, to fix

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-...-up,-compensation-costs-nearly-double/8127268
http://www.abc.net.au/foreign/content/2015/s4468353.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_disaster_cleanup

Of great concern is that, I recall seeing at the time, reports that US Reactors located on the geologically unstable west coast had only been designed for 7.0 level quakes ........ cross your fingers folks, in fact, cross everything ......


Chosun :gh:

Small mercies, the tritium has a short half life (12 years) and is normally processed through the body, so it does not accumulate.
The corium fuel is now a bunch of lumps below the reactor sites, pretty much going nowhere. There is no hurry to recover them, as the ongoing radioactivity from them is minute compared to the enormous pulse emitted during the meltdowns.
I do think that the eventual cleanup costs will be in the $1 Trillion vicinity, a dead weight on Japan's aging population.
But we should be honest, the people killed died because of the tsunami, the reactors killed no one. Even the evacuations were probably more lethal than staying bathed in radioactivity would have been.
 
A recent report by SBS program Dateline has outlined the reticence of former residents of the town Namie to return - particularly those with children, and ongoing radioactivity problems in the region. Some areas have only 1 in 50 families indicating they would return. I guess it is a very different equation when you are at the end of your life, than when you are responsible for those starting theirs.

There are no plans to remediate the mountain regions which must present an ongoing risk for re contamination by erosive processes of wind and water, and gravitational and wildlife transport processes. :cat:

http://m.huffingtonpost.com.au/amos-roberts/what-its-like-going-home-to-a-nuclear-wasteland/
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/dateline/story/coming-home-nuclear-wasteland


Chosun :gh:
 
Yes, I was aware some of it can tend to the wild and fantastic. Thanks for that link. A nice balanced summary.

For what it's worth, one of the points raised about no independent verification is covered in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports, where Mitsubishi Nuclear Fuel Co. Ltd., Kaken Co. Ltd., and Tohuku Ryokka Kankyohozen Co. Ltd., are listed as third party organizations, monitoring water discharge.

I can't say that I'm overly confident of the radiation and contaminated water being contained. Especially when some mountainous areas are never slated to be cleaned up, and the Pacific Ocean seems to be thought of as an infinite, free, and convenient source of dilution as a treatment mechanism for contaminated water. I could find no more detail on how diluted (by the Pacific ocean) the discharge samples are other than a reference to it being the "nearest seawater sampling point from the discharge point". This makes any below threshold readings questionable to me.


Chosun :gh:
 
Wildfires Rage in Chernobyl’s Exclusion Zone, Threatening Nuclear Site’s 4 Reactors

The thing with these nuclear disasters is that they just continue in the background, and whether it's the Pacific Ocean, or the Atmosphere that is the dumping ground they continue to dump radioactive material well beyond people's immediate awareness (especially with a big focus like COVID-19 and the economic fallout at the moment).

Now comes news that Chernobyl is under threat from fire.
https://themindunleashed.com/2020/0...n4KFncg80JLItRn_FqY23QfuTtwzt7Jv_uOWb-OnBz2qs




Chosun :gh:
 
Nuclear Fission is an absolute joke.

Further implications for both Chernobyl, and Fukushima ..... oh, and let's not forget the sinking island of plutonium waste in the Pacific .....



Chosun 🙆
 
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