Published: March 18th, 2012 at 12:42 am ET
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Title: Plan to N-shrine reactors for millennia
Source: The Japan Times
Author: EDAN CORKILL
Date: Sunday, March 18, 2012
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Long-term plan: Architect Katsuhiro Miyamoto’s novel means of safely mothballing the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and the highly radioactive fuel likely to remain there even after the current crisis is resolved, is to turn it into a Shinto shrine — seen here in a model and a computer rendering. [...]
The 51-year-old who, in 1996, represented Japan at the “Olympics of architecture” — as the Venice Biennale is known — has suggested erecting giant shrine-style thatched roofs over each of the crippled reactor buildings — and so creating what he dubs “The Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant Shrine.” This, he tells The Japan Times, will “pacify a malevolent god.”
As yet, no long-term strategy for dealing with the now highly radioactive plant operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co. has been developed. Far from it, in fact, since work is still ongoing to stabilize the leaking reactors. Ultimately, however, Miyamoto believes the key issue will be what to do with the highly radioactive nuclear fuel that either remains in or has melted through the reactors’ containment vessels.
“They won’t be able to bury it on the site because the land there is not geologically stable enough, and I doubt they will be able to take it off the site because no other local government will agree to take it,” Miyamoto observes. “That means they will have to stabilize it somehow and more or less leave it where it is.” [...]
Read the report here
Yomiuri: “The worst-case scenario is a China syndrome” [...] A China syndrome refers to a situation in which nuclear fuel in a reactor melts and goes through a containment vessel -Masao Yoshida, former chief of the Fukushima Daiichi plant
Here’s a few more reports regarding fuel melting through the containment vessels:
- Yamada: Fuel could be outside containment -- Concrete does not erode uniformly -- No one knows shape of corium -- Big problems with Tepco estimation (VIDEO) (34) September 3, 2012
- Listen: Melted fuel may have broken through concrete under reactors -- Tepco just assuming it didn't -Fukushima Volunteer (AUDIO) (11) August 24, 2012
- Japan Nuclear Expert: Melted fuel may have gone through cement floor and into ground under Fukushima reactors -- I don't believe Tepco's claim for one second -- Where in the world is it? (VIDEO) (89) August 23, 2012
- 'China Syndrome'? Former Japan Official: Underground rumblings heard in Fukushima plant area night of March 14, 2011 -- "Caused by melted fuel underground" (VIDEO) (47) June 22, 2012
- More from Lead Investigator: "The 'nuclear lava' melted the bottom of the containment vessel, leaking a huge amount of fission gasses and particles to the air and water" (43) April 20, 2012
- Japan Times on Melt Through: "Molten 'lava' melted bottom of containment vessel," says nuclear engineer given access by top official -- Huge amounts of fission materials released into environment (61) April 18, 2012
- NYT: "Cores at three of plant's reactors melted down, breaching their containment vessels" -- Tepco maintains fuel stopped short of breaching containment vessels (19) March 31, 2012
- Analysis: Melted fuel completely penetrated concrete in under 15 hours at GE Mark I -- Shows little decline in speed (CHART) (30) March 17, 2012
- NYTimes in '93: Worst type of reactor accident is nuclear fuel melting, burning through vessel and reactor basement, then into earth (12) March 16, 2012
- French nuclear specialists agree Fukushima "could still explode", corium a threat -- Reactors remain in meltdown says expert, molten lava could break through at any point (25) March 11, 2012
- Top US Nuke Official: Melted core penetrates concrete at 2 inches per hour -- No doubt containment is lost during blackout -- Manual tells you everything except how to stop it -- Mark I worst of all (AUDIO) (120) March 1, 2012
- NHK: Gov't report said if Fukushima containment vessels were damaged, Tokyo would be voluntarily evacuated (17) February 12, 2012
- Fukushima Boss: "The worst-case scenario is a China syndrome" where fuels leaves containment -- Top Gov't Official: Strong possibility fuel outside containment (17) December 29, 2011
- Fukushima Boss: "Situation could lead to a so-called China syndrome" if Reactor 2 was left unattended -- Hours later gives order to evacuate (22) December 29, 2011
- Japan Times: China Syndrome was near at Reactor No. 2, believed Fukushima boss Yoshida (18) December 28, 2011
- NYT: Experts suspect melted fuel may be threatening groundwater -- "Battle of epic proportions" says Koide -- Concerns over recriticality (18) December 16, 2011
- Nuclear specialist: Corium hitting water table is "big concern" -- Once fuel hits groundwater the concern is "it just blows right up" (VIDEO) (50) December 7, 2011
- Nuclear Expert: Tepco is admitting they are very close to China Syndrome at Fukushima, where melted fuel penetrates earth (VIDEO) (56) December 6, 2011
- Radio: Just a matter of time before molten core reaches groundwater at Fukushima, says architect of Reactor No. 3 (VIDEO) (61) December 5, 2011
- Guardian: Tepco now says concrete "could have been penetrated" -- Fukushima 'may' have narrowly averted China Syndrome (90) December 2, 2011
- MBS Radio (Japanese): Humans have never gone through such a crisis says Koide -- Tepco's assumption 37cm of concrete remains is 'baseless' -- Suspects container broken (AUDIO) (29) December 1, 2011
- China Syndrome discussed in multiple news reports: Closer than previously believed to burning through ground below reactor (23) December 1, 2011
- Kyoto U. Prof: I always argued that containment is broken -- Said melted fuel may already be 40 feet underground (11) December 1, 2011
- Newly-surfaced Video: "For some time" NRC staff has contemplated that all reactor cores are 'ex-vessel' due to time without cooling (47) November 30, 2011
- "Huge steam explosions" if nuclear fuel hits water... Just a matter of time before corium melts through Fukushima station: Former secretary of UK gov't committee (VIDEO) (13) November 21, 2011
- China syndrome inevitable says architect of Fukushima Reactor No. 3 -- Warns of massive hydrovolcanic explosion -- Melted fuel inevitably sank underground (217) November 19, 2011
- Anonymous ex-Fukushima engineer: "Fuel pellets could have been carried to different parts of plant" -- TEPCO won't deny that "fuel may have burrowed into ground" -NYT (36) November 2, 2011
- NHK, Tepco confirm steam came up from underground at Reactor No. 1 -- Now 4.7 Sieverts per hour, almost 20% more than in June (92) October 17, 2011
- Yomiuri on China Syndrome: Gov't secretly figured out how far the melted fuel would burn through reactor pedestals -- "Worst-possible scenario" (89) October 16, 2011
- Japan nuke expert: Melted fuel rods estimated to be 12 meters underground Reactors No. 1-3 -- To be 100 feet deep in a year (AUDIO) (26) September 21, 2011
- Dr. Koide: Massive amounts of radioactivity may again be released from Fukushima -- Mentions "steam explosion" after melted fuel hits water (170) September 9, 2011
- Kyoto U. expert: Melted fuel may have sunk into ground -- "We are now head to head with a situation that mankind has never faced before" (67) September 9, 2011
- Report: Gov't paper shows melt-out at Fukushima was predicted on day of quake (32) September 8, 2011
- Report: Undated animation shows Japan gov't nuke experts must have known Fukushima was a melt-through (VIDEO) (4) July 26, 2011
- Worse than a 'melt through' - a 'melt out'? -- See Graphic (159) July 9, 2011
- Japanese professor: Melted fuel has gone through containers and is on concrete foundations sinking into ground below, as far as I can tell -- Underground dam was being prepared, but TEPCO resisting (69) June 20, 2011
- Gov't report suggests situation "far worse" than meltdown -- It "is the worst possibility in a nuclear accident" (83) June 8, 2011
- Fukushima plant "seems to be going through a limited version of the China syndrome" (119) May 23, 2011
- Film foretold Fukushima meltdown -- If reactors could not be kept full of water, fuel would eat through container resulting in "China Syndrome" (VIDEO) (44) May 21, 2011
- Time.com: China Syndrome "might just have happened at Fukushima" -- Molten fuel may have "melted through everything into the earth" (237) May 16, 2011
- Reactor No. 1 core had total meltdown and uranium fuel may be outside containment building -- Nuclear reaction could have restarted (54) May 16, 2011
Published: March 18th, 2012 at 12:42 am ET
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Oh great! Make a Shinto shrine of it!
Let's expand that thinking a bit. How about a Shinto, Zen, Tao, Confusian, Zoroastrian, Koptic, Islamic, Buddhist, Sheik. Catholic, Fundie Born Again, Judaic, 7th Gen Natives, Episcopalean, … ! I apologize. I could fill pages with all of humankind's myriad sacred devotions to all of that.
But, in the meantime, We Do Not Need Nuke Power. Shut Them Down. And bury them by any means possible.
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Alternative suggestion: put the Diet meeting chamber there, and put Embassy Row there for good measure.
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Don't forget to mention the unknown god, like the Apostle Paul did.
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History repeating itself.
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ahhh,the wonders of nuclear energy!
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God is a troll and Fukushima was an act of man and stupidity. Any excuse to blame it on anything other than grave negligence is taking away from just how stupid it is to build a nuclear power plant on a fault line. Year 1 has just ended and the real pain of a nuclear crisis sets in too soon. The health issues we see how will be magnified 10 fold within 8 months. We have a front row seat to watching one of the most terrifying events in history occur. Enjoy the show. Also bring your iodine…you may get lumps.
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Its okay God has it covered just give the earth a few more million years and all of this mess will decay away, its just too bad that we will all be dead long before that
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93 Long life Radiation Contaminants
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/93-long-lived-nuclear-elements.html
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There will be more than enough victims for the angry god in the future.
Rather turn on the brains and quit nuclear energy.
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Sure wish they woulda built the shrine there long ago, instead of a fucking nuke plant.
All together now, 1, 2, 3 !
SHUT EM ALL DOWN !!
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Where is my "like" button when I need it??
SHUT EM ALL DOWN!! Amen!
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'Pacify a malevolent god' – Sheesh what bs. People did this, not any 'malevolent god.'
Talk about romanticizing criminality and corruption.
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the shrine idea is a joke,……right?
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That box they put over unit 1 is a joke, as well as all the other temporary containment structures, it seems like they don't even bother to address unit 3 so at this point I just can't tell anymore
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Sadly, I think not…
There are many in the world that believe God punishes people for misdeeds, so everything bad that happens, is GOD punishing people.
In their minds, it has nothing to do with people, at all.
So the angry God must be appeased. Throughout history this has happened.
Virgins used to sacrificed for good weather.
Or the opposing army is killed along with all civilians, because a punishing God demands this.
Or, the world is brought to an end with nuclear bombs and weapons, because God has judged everyone except the few in our religion as being evil and worthy of being cast into H#((. (Armageddon anyone?)
It seems most if not all religions have this kind of belief system and many believe it 100%.
All it takes is one of those people to push a button to start the process of 'punishment' of all evil doers. Elect an extreme fundamentalist to a position of power, so they control the button, if you are in a hurry to see someone pushing that button in response to God telling them what to do; ie… punish all evil doers.
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Or, like an extremist fundamentalist Darwinist, who thinks his or her race is superior to all the others, and should be eliminated.
Obviously, too, this kind of thinking completely overlooks man's responsibility. Right… yeah…..God made people build nuclear reactors, especially in earthquake and tsunamis zones. God made man ignore free abundant energy sources. It's not man's fault he faked safety inspections, and infested the government and nuclear industry with Yakuza, and never did anything with recommendations for design improvement. Man had nothing to do with cramming spent fuel rods into what became 'uncontained nuclear reactors just waiting to happen', not that containment seems to matter with such reactors.
Of course, in REALITY, it is all man's fault. Japanese man's, in this case, along with a few engineers, investors, and business 'men' from the US. Man failed to use even common sense, in the whole matter, and it is ALL MAN'S FAULT. If anything, it is a miracle of God so far that man hasn't had far more, or global (solar flare), nuclear holocausts, or nuclear war, not that there is any guarantee of that not happening. Freedom from God comes with consequences. Further in reality, blaming 'gods' and not the obvious God of creation, is further an insult to the real God, upon the one for blaming Him in the first place.
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correction, and all the others should be eliminated
Like the thought which colored the German, and the Japanese view, prior to WW2.
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From the article in Japan Times, "all thatched roofs must be rethatched periodically", which I guess will expose the thatchers to some radiation, so perhaps this idea is not a runner in its present form, praiseworthy though the sentiment of preservation might be.
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@2.00 minutes in??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G1Yo5hMOwg
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evidence of the need for evacuation.. not shrine building
Uploaded by criirad on 13 Mar 2012
This video shows radiation levels on May 29th 2011, in Fukushima city (Japan) about 60-65 km from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors.
Measurements are made by a CRIIRAD scientist (Bruno. Chareyron, engineer in nuclear physics) during a meeting between CRIIRAD and Japanese citizens : M. Wataru Iwata (co-founder of Project 47 and CRMS) and persons in charge of the network "Fukushima Network for Saving Children from Radiation", including M. Nagate (ex-representative), Mrs Marumori (now Executive Director of CRMS) and Mrs Sato. CRIIRAD is sharing its experience of independent radiation monitoring with the Fukushima citizens.
In this video, CRIIRAD researcher is using a gamma radiation detector (DG5 scintillometer) to show the intensity of radiation rates, even inside the office at floor level. Radiation rates are given in counts per second (c/s). With this device, normal values should be about 50 to 150 c/s depending on natural radiation.
The powerful gamma radiations emitted by radioactive caesium deposited on the ground of the parking located in front of the building give a radiation rate about 10 times above normal values inside the building (at the centre of the office), and 15 times above near the window. This radiation will decrease only very slowly. After one year, the decrease should be about 23 % only.
Additional info : look at http://www.criirad.org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zLvoQKx9glE
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