Published: December 15th, 2011 at 9:00 am ET
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40 years estimated to scrap Fukushima plant, NHK, December 15, 2011:
Japan’s government and the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant say it will take up to 40 years to decommission the plant’s damaged reactors.
NHK has learned about a timetable drawn up by the industry ministry and Tokyo Electric Power Company, based on a report released earlier by the state’s Atomic Energy Commission. [...]
The unprecedented work involves very difficult working conditions [...]
Dismantlement of Fukushima NPP to take 40 years, TASS, December 15, 2011:
The final dismantlement of the troubled Fukushima nuclear power plant will take 40 years, according to a forecast of Tokyo Electric Power, the company which operates the NPP.
Earlier the experts said that it would take 30 years to dismantle the plant. [...]
Besides that the workers will have to wok carefully to prevent new radiation leakages. [...]
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Published: December 15th, 2011 at 9:00 am ET
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I bet there’s some real deep scientific analysis in this figure, too.
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40 years with modern technologies. Knowing the Japanese, they will have invented methods and this time durating will be accelerated. Can you imagine all of here on enenews agonizing over this for 40 years???
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I think folks are agonizing here because most everywhere else either got shut down or coopted by the shills.
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For the first time, I see mention of removing the rods from the spent fuel pools “within 2 years”.
That should have been priority 1 from day one, but as they say, better late than never.
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I will be an old man by the time the plants are decommissioned….
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I seriously doubt anyone alive today will see the plants fully cleaned up
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I’ll be dead.
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That’s the intention, I think. In 30 or 40 years, Tepcoclowns will be long gone, and the whole mess will be “a legacy from the past”. Noone left to hold responsable, noone left to watch closely.
Given the usual attention span of today (90 min action movie), 40 years is like a millenium.
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But by 30 or 40 years, the health consequences of this accident will also have become apparent. Perhaps that will cause people to pay attention.
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Like they pay attention to Chernobyl?
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Or post war atomic tests? Remember, cancer was very rare prior to 1945.
I think we’re looking at a future where everyone will have cancer at some point in their lives.
Makes me glad I’m 54, but my heart breaks when I look at children.
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“Decommission” sounds so planned, so sanitary, so cost-effective, so well-controlled… so inappropriate to the situation.
I’m an old man now. Life is all the sweeter. The thought of losing it because of nuke corporate overreach and hubris is, um, distressing.
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And they have all
Ready stolen years from our lives.
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40 years? I think they left a zero or two off it.
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Plutonium has a half life of 24,000 years, and it takes ten half-lives to fully decay away, hence 240,000 yrs.
I think you’re going to need a lot more zeros.
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They are probably waiting for Star Trek technology to end this problem. This problem is eternal. The contamination won’t ever go away even after the fuel is removed. If I remember correctly, it is ~5 millisieverts around the reactors. So apparently, they are just waiting out the fuel. Helpless.
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49 years huh??
In the Radiation Zone: The Children of Minamisoma City, Part 1 of 4
In the zone 20-30 km from the damaged nuclear power plant in Japan, the children whose parents have decided not to evacuate them are heading back to school amidst abnormally high levels of radiation and toxic rain.
This is part 1 of a behind the scenes look of what happened during the filming of the latest feature documentary by Ian Thomas Ash and Colin O’Neill….
more here
http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=In+the+Radiation+Zone%3A+The+Children+of+Minamisoma+City%2C+Part&oq=In+the+Radiation+Zone%3A+The+Children+of+Minamisoma+City%2C+Part&aq=f&aqi=&aql=1&gs_sm=s&gs_upl=45522l56017l0l62186l3l3l0l0l0l0l238l626l0.1.2l3l0
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Boy, I find as much awesome content from Enenews staff as I do from the awesome comment section! Thanks for the vid!
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Yeah! You all rock.
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my brain hurts…
what will the date be in 250,000 years?
then we can party like it’s 1999.
not…..
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