Gov’t minister suggested building sarcophagus over No. 4 fuel pool just after 3/11

Published: June 8th, 2012 at 11:14 am ET
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Follow-up to: Tepco adds 60-ton cover on No. 4 fuel pool (PHOTOS)

Asahi and Yomiuri reported on Former transport minister Sumio Mabuchi statements to a Diet panel last Thursday, summarized by Fukushima Diary:

[Sumio] Mabuchi, former minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism stated he suggested building sarcophagus for reactor 4 [...]

Mabuchi proposed to cover the 4 aspects of reactor 4 with concrete, which is called sarcophagus in Chernobyl just after 311. However, Tepco rejected it for the financial reason. Also, their pride as engineer stopped them from accepting the fact that they have to do the same thing as Chernobyl.

Published: June 8th, 2012 at 11:14 am ET
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5 comments to Gov’t minister suggested building sarcophagus over No. 4 fuel pool just after 3/11

  • kintaman kintaman

    So due to TEPCO's pride and financial concerns the entire world has been getting fallout rained down upon it by Fukushima Daiichi? I say put the TEPCO decision makers INTO the fucking reactors already. They are traitors to Japan and the human race.


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  • PhilipUpNorth philipupnorth

    "[Sumio] Mabuchi, former minister of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism stated he suggested building sarcophagus for reactor 4.". Big :)

    Sumio Mabuchi deserves our heartfelt thanks for having the courage to suggest a sarcophagus. At least he is talking about building a sarcophagus.

    Having said this, come on, planet Earth! We need to think BIG about Fuku! After all, Fuku has (and is) dosing every one of us, and will dose our children's children, with deadly cancer-causing radioisotopes. This has been going on for over a year now, without any attempt to slow or stop the radiation pouring out of that pile of nuclear rubble at Fukushima.

    Thinking BIG means building a BIG concrete sarcophagus around destroyed Buildings1,2,3,&4. To anchor it, we will need to build a foundation 100' thick and 100' deep into the bedrock. We have to build a sarcophagus about 300' tall. Since a sarcophagus is too expensive for poor old TEPCO to pay for, we need Japan to nationalize TEPCO right now, and spend whatever is necessary to build the sarcophagus. If TEPCO and Japan continue to refuse to do what is necessary to meet the ongoing Fuku disaster by building a sarcophagus around Buildings1,2,3,&4, then we call on all of Planet Earth to mount an international effort to take over the Fuku mess and build the sarcophagus. Let's get going on this, people of Earth. Our future depends on this. (450,000 X background radiation in Washington State!)


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  • unsub unsub

    "…their pride as engineer[sic] stopped them from accepting the fact that they have to do the same thing as Chernobyl."

    'Pride' seems to be the ruling emotion in Japanese men, so 'shame' could be seen as their worst fear. In fact shame has traditionally been severely punished in Japanese society. If so, pride, and not rationalism, must be considered first when trying to decipher their actions.

    http://factsanddetails.com/japan.php?itemid=615

    [cool Japan ?]


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  • richard richard

    "their pride as engineer stopped them from accepting the fact that they have to do the same thing as Chernobyl" hahahahahahaha hah hahaha Hahn hahahahahh hhahahahha hahahahahh hahahha

    Pride as engineers, what a load of bollocks tepco. You are a pack of mongrels, nothing to be prose of there.

    Murderous, lying, corrupt mongrels – tepco, you so suck.

    I've seen nothing related to pride during this fiasco. I've seen plenty of spineless drivel and there's an unstoppable stench of corruption, but pride, you are seriously joking.

    Lying mongrels, start doing the sepuku. That may reveal some pride.


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