Published: August 25th, 2012 at 1:13 pm ET
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Title: Fukushima NHK Special: Daiichi Nuclear Fuel Rod Removal
Source: NewsWatch 9
Published by: Missingsky101
Date Aired: July 18, 2012
Date Published: August 24, 2012
Last December, the government said the accident at Fukushima nuclear plant had been contained, but the local residents still face a long road to rebuild their lives. The government also said the work to remove radioactive substances from areas with relatively low contamination would end by March 2014. But Iitate village Mayor Norio Kanno told reporters yesterday the work was making no progress.
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Published: August 25th, 2012 at 1:13 pm ET
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That's because decontamination is a pipe dream fed to the public to give hope and keep the people quiet. The problem, the people figured out it's a pipe dream, a very expensive one.
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"The problem, the people figured out it's a pipe dream, a very expensive one."
… unfortunately still not very many figured that out. It's a very strong dream… and it's too attractive NOT to cling to it, even for those, who begin to suspect, that it will stay only a dream, if nothing fundamental in the ethical priority settings of our global society changes pretty soon…
@HoTaters: Left you a message here:
http://tinyurl.com/was-not-meant-as-humor-at-all
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One of the first principals of decontamination is not to even attempt any cleaning until the source of the contamination has been stopped. Since there are still releases from the plant every day there is never going to be great progress with decontamination, until those releases are stopped.
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+1 Exactly!
"…until those releases are stopped."
Makes perfect sense to me.
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Cleaning?
better would be the first, nuclear sprinkler bind under
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They give up on the concept of removing radiation. And stopped trying.
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And, solar can't be considered because it is cheap and safe? Can't
wipe out life by going solar!
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