Published: April 18th, 2012 at 11:59 am ET
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Title: Official ‘decommissioning’ of Fukushima reactors brings locals no peace
Source: Mainichi
Date: Apr 18, 2012
[...] “How will you extract the melted fuel from the reactors?” “How can we believe you when you say, ‘It will be safe after decontamination’ even while radioactive material leaks continue?”
These were just a few of the angry comments and questions posed by Naraha townspeople at an April 11 central government information session in the prefectural city of Iwaki, where they now live as nuclear disaster refugees.
[...] residents’ anger became obvious during the question and answer section.
“We need safe air and water for our children,” one person said. “We are not guinea pigs!” cried another. Kensuke Tomita, the government’s representative at the meeting and deputy head of the Cabinet’s Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters, finally replied that “TEPCO and the government will take responsibility for restoring local infrastructure, decontamination and (nuclear disaster) compensation,” but he emerged from the encounter shocked.
“I never thought there’d be this much of a backlash,” he said. The town government, meanwhile, has given up on plans to have Naraha re-designated before the end of April. [...]
Fukushima Gov. Yuhei Sato told an April 16 meeting of the Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters that the problems at the plant were “stirring anxiety among the people of the prefecture,” and once more demanded the government supervise operations there thoroughly. [...]
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Published: April 18th, 2012 at 11:59 am ET
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He was shocked there was this much backlash…? Good!
I am shocked there is not MORE backlash and violent rage related to the largest catastrophe of all time.
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Yeah, I'm shocked that tepco and jap gov aren't hanging from tress.
What's taking do long!
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The Japanese youth didn't go through the convulsions of questioning their leaders like the US did in the '60's, with Vietnam.
They're going through it now.
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The fact that he was, 'shocked', means he's nearly completely removed from this crisis! He must be living in his own bellybutton!
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Great comment, SJ! 'Reminds me of those old jokes about spending too much time contemplating one's navel ….
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LOL I agree! Another zinger from amazing StillJill!
You are on a ROLL!!!
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Yep…many +++s
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They should ALL be shocked.
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Yes Flapdoodle,…good idea! Shock collars all around!
Ever ytime they're caught in a lie,….the ZAP strength goes up!:-)
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May they continue to be shocked.. may it reach down into the very core of their beings.
The people have managed to reach some semblance of truth.
How are they expected to not object?
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From Peter Gabriel's "Shock the Monkey"
"Wheels keep turning
Something's burning
Don't like it but I guess I'm learning
Shock! – watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Too much at stake
Ground beneath me shake
And the news is breaking
Shock! – watch the monkey get hurt, monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey
Shock the monkey to life"
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For all of us lab rats out here in the grand Nuclear Experiment ….
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Comments keep making me think of something I saw last year on "I Survived,…death and back" The "I Survived" series should be easy enough to find. They re-played one episode a lot. It was a man who had been a 'gang-banger' gang member. He also had a few brothers. Well, he gets shot and bleeds out slowly in his Brother's arms as I recall. The medics are able to get him to the hosp. where he codes. Then he goes to hell. Hell, as he relays it,…is a COLD, not hot, prison cell. You are naked, and aware of your nakedness. You see night and day, all your past 'deeds', that caused unrest in your soul,…that you suppressed. Also,….you feel all of the feelings of those you hurt. You get to feel their pain,….the pain you either caused,…or 'turned away from'.
This man came out of that experience ONE of the KINDEST,….most spiritually LOVING persons I have ever seen, heard, or felt!
Now,……this may only be a story,….I don't know what hell is. But this account of it,…'fits',…for me anyway.
The man said also that past deeds are telepromptered, if you will, power-point on STEROIDS,…up onto the hillsides,…or whatever is the background,……and ALL THINGS ARE REVEALED! To everyone,…open up all LIES. Settle ALL THINGS once and for ALL! Amen!
I now return you to your regularly scheduled thread!
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“I see enormous stretches devastated, enormous stretches of the Earth.” Thus was Carl Jung’s 1961 deathbed conversation as related by Mary Louise von Franz in the 1986 documentary “Matter of Heart.” Jung spoke of what he called The Final Catastrophe and sketched a crude up and down graph which was labelled ‘The Last Fifty Years of Humanity.’ Fifty years from 1961? Was Jung a Prophet? Did he possess a prophetic ability? He was certainly a wise man. “Not nature, but the ‘genius of mankind,’ has knotted the hangman’s noose with which it can execute itself at any moment.” Carl Jung, 1952.
Mary Louise von Franz refused to divulge the details of the The Final Catastrophe as envisioned by Jung. However she does say some telling things in this documentary; “That man would go out of sheer shadow foolishness and destroy it all. I mean, that all life might go from the planet…” And, earlier, “Think if your sword breaks in battle; you are a dead man… they knew that sword, and the solidity of that sword was their fate. And now it is still so. Let a few of your atomic plants explode and… please!” Franz concludes, “Jung never thought that we might do better than just possibly sneak around the corner, with not too big a catastrophe.” Even on his deathbed it seems he remained an optimist.
Even if this doesn’t kill us all, where is the optimism?
(Excerpt from Matter of Heart, Mary Louise von Franz)
http://youtu.be/f2OYG5sDvzw
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Yet here at Fuku sits not one, but six NPPs, all in a row. What a show they have put on for us all! Having a nuclear reservation, with several nukes side by each, doesn't make it EASIER to deal with a problem, but much harder. All nukes of more than one reactor should be shut down right now. If one blows, as we have seen at Fuku, all others will have problems. And if one Reactor creates so much radiation that all workers flee the complex, then the other reactors at the site are going to blow, one after another. And all the spent fuel pools will dry up and burst into flame. Just like they did at Fuku. TEPCO managers and their families are drinking bottled water and eating imported food, you can bet on it. Most TEPCO managers have quietly sent their families on vacation to other parts of the world. If you are in the media, and interview a TEPCO manager, your FIRST question should be: "Can you please tell us where your wife and children are right now?" Criminals, all.
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Hmm, interesting. The chances grow slimmer everyday that ANY reactor will be restarted in Japan. They have tried to sneak it through, but the people are paying attention! Their hope is to just cover up the problem (literally) and act as if it never happened. Classic.
50+ reactors, at a build out cost of $2-4B each means a direct loss of $100-200B. This does not include decommissioning and cleanup costs which are significant. The Fuku cleanup costs have been estimated between $500-1,000B, over a long period of course. Building replacement capacity will cost just as much as the reactors. So the bill could easily be over $1 TRILLION.
The money does not exist for this of course. How long before Japan throws up their hands and says this is a problem for the world to fix, it cannot just be Japan, besides we do not have the money.
When they walk off the job and leave it for someone else to deal with, who is going to step up and make it right?
sschu
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What IF… all of that money had been used for installing solar panels, wind mills and other non planet threatening ways of generating power had been pursued?
It would be a better world.
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What IF, ChasAha, what IF? Sigh…
Well, no better time than the present (actually, the truly better time has already passed, pre-Atomic Age insanity) to get started decommissioning ALL NPPs and put the rest of our energy and resources into funding research and development into renewables!
We really don't have any other choice if mankind and all living things hope to continue on this planet…
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It is time these people get shocked, the reactors exploded last year and are and will be killing millions of children over the next decades.
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Wake Up Japan…
Your Utility Gangs are not interested in anything,
… Except you paying their BILLS!
Bowing is no longer acceptable…
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Thanks dka,….for bringing 'this' back to the children that ARE dying,…will increase in numbers-dying,…etc!
I tire of the numbers, becquerels, theories, mombo-jumbo too!
When ALL that matters,…ALL that we should FOCUS on,…(Like a HEAT-SEEKING Freaking missile!)–IS,…..the loss of life on planet earth! Plants, defenseless animals,….and INNOCENT children! Period!
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EXACTLY, StillJill!
Even just ONE child getting leukemia, thyroid cancer or a brain tumor from NEEDLESS, POINTLESS MAN-MADE radiation exposure (either accidental or due to "permissible/levels" being released from ALL NPPs on a daily basis) is ONE CHILD TOO MANY, period!!! (and exclamation point!!!)
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I expect to see more not less radiation coming from Fukushima as the recent EQ's increase the interaction between the the Corium(s) and the groundwater under the entire Complex…
TEPCO has hopes of restarting #5 and #6, so that they are taking baby steps now instead of moving full speed 24/7 to fill with concrete what is left of the #4 reactor building, creating a new external SFP that encase the weakened one above it; then can install a new overhead gantry crane and start moving SFR assemblies off site ASAP!
This may be the biggest BLUNDER of all time if yet another BIG EQ causes that weakened SFP to collapse…
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The Nuclear Industry loves the fact that the units are confusing because it makes it easier to refute them…
Suggestion, pick one easy to understand unit system and then require folks submitting data to use that system or at lest convert their data to that system… Problem solved
Please put on your thinking caps and suggest what this system should be!
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Support for nuclear energy is crumbling like the Fukushima reactors.
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Vic:
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