Published: March 29th, 2015 at 10:29 am ET
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The Times of London, Mar. 27, 2015 (emphasis added): Japan faces 200-year wait for Fukushima clean-up — The chief of the Fukushima nuclear power station has admitted that the technology needed to decommission three melted-down reactors does not exist, and he has no idea how it will be developed. In a stark reminder of the challenge facing the Japanese authorities, Akira Ono conceded that the stated goal of decommissioning the plant by 2051 may be impossible without a giant technological leap. “There are so many uncertainties involved. We need to develop many, many technologies,” Mr Ono said. “For removal of the debris, we don’t have accurate information (about the state of the reactors) or any viable methodology… [The rest of the article is only available to Times’ subscribers]
The Telegraph (UK), Mar 26, 2015: Japan may be obsessed with robots, but it is a British company that has solved the “impossible” problem of visualising the radiation leaks inside the crippled reactor buildings at Fukushima — State-of-the-art British imaging technology has been deployed at Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear plant to overcome problems that Japanese engineers declared to be insurmountable… [The] system is able to create a real-time, three-dimensional image of the area being surveyed and identify “hot-spots” of radioactivity. More than four years after… radiation levels within the structures remain too high for humans to enter. That has severely hampered efforts to… clean up the site. Experts have already estimated that process will take three decades but progress to date has been slow. [TEPCO] was only able to confirm on Thursday previous suspicions that nearly all the fuel from the No. 1 reactor at the plant has melted and fallen into the containment vessel. Two more reactors appear to have experienced similar fates… “One of their guys said it was like finding a Picasso in the loft because their experts had told them that what we do was impossible“, [said Dr Matt Mellor, director of Createc]… Createc engineers first visited the Fukushima plant in 2013. “It was a shocking sight… so it was clear this was going to be a major challenge from the outset”, he added.
Published: March 29th, 2015 at 10:29 am ET
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Personal, Historical, tid-bit:
As I stood in the CEO's Glare, {as an IT/IS Mgr} his statement was; "fix this-NOW", 'or I will find someone who will' and they will replace you!…
Pretty much sum's up "Corporate" [any country] management style. How many are prepared to just walk off the six figure job, and re-write the resume' to show a blank 15 month period?
Hint; I still feel the Balls growing!
Best personal choice I ever made!
Never did put my signature on that CFR-40 document.
Peace All
Mr. Balls. Have an up vote!
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https://mariannewildart.wordpress.com/2015/03/30/nuclear-waste-trains-pass-through-shooting-of-red-deer/
http://www.clintonnewsrecord.com/2015/03/30/central-huron-being-considered-as-a-nuclear-waste-storage-site
http://hotcopper.com.au/threads/youll-never-believe-where-americas-nuclearwaste.2487012/page-3?post_id=15010505#.VRp0SkJB-S0
moosey said: ↑
It can be shipped from the US East coast to Oz. It's only about 50% further (~12.5k nm vs ~8.5k nm), but worth it probably to avoid the hassle.
http://www.republicofmining.com/2015/03/30/accent-nuke-waste-plans-stir-northern-angst-by-mary-katherine-keown-sudbury-star-march-28-2015/
http://antinuclear.net
Hey Enenewsers, Haven't you noticed every time you say- How do you take Radioactivity immediately out of Nuke waste! The trolls run for the hills and you don't see them around for awhile…
This also prevents them from spewing BS from their mouths…as they have no answer!!!
Correct Chekmate , they are 100% immoral lying about life and death matter's when thanks to them the clock is at 3 minutes left for "the great darkness"..
But they have no answer to Life-Logic and it's inherent Morality , or any question's derived from that sided with their lies , as long as you put the truth aka "that what resonates with reality, and not only in a limited owned specialist or stockholder place of perception" in a "cutting to the cheese manner" , so you can feel even the lurker's wanne pick up a stone and take a shot at "IT" , instead of continuing to being brainwashed..
It makes them "uneasy" standing there buttnaked with their bag of lies rendered useless, and rightfully so.. 😈
I give Enenews's Nuclear Trolls a big, fat DOWN VOTE:
http://gfycat.com/HomelyJointHookersealion
A brief summary of the troll's all night conversation with itself: If we're not wearing a white lab coat, and we don't use technical physics jargon to demonstrate how many hot angels can dance on the head of a pin; THEN WE CAN'T POSSIBLY RECOGNIZE DEATH WHEN WE SEE IT.
There, saved ya some time…
He should have listen to Jeremy Rifkin on how just bad of an investment Nuclear Power really is! 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwIvGJJ_dtU
Only a fool like Metal does not see the bright lights! 🙁
I have eye strain and a headache from trying to research an answer to just one of "it's" questions in a box of about 30…of course with no answers posed. The question was, why don't surgeons get cancer from tumors. And now, because of this "mess" here, I can't find the original post. (Eye strain doesn't help. Lol)
So after two hours, I found ONE story that informally, without stats, listed the top six morbidity factors for doctors. The usual suspects, but suicide was the emphasis…heart disease, infections, etc. But cancer wasn't even listed. (I did find that 75% of docs WONT DO CHEMO, and so, presumably they do get cancer at least at the same rate as the general population. But glaringly omitted.) Other than that, a site on chronic diseases of docs (specific diseases not listed) said there are no studies about specific diseases of docs.
So what did I learn to share. (Other than death by doctor being the third major cause of mortality in this country after cancer and heart disease…more than highway accidents and handguns, et al combined.) … That there are virtually no cancer stats at all since 2010. I say virtually "no" because I didn't find ONE. They may be there. I did not find them. I did more than 20 search "pulls" and paged back 15 deep. Nothing I OPENED was current. That in itself is a major red flag for me…because in years prior…the late 80s to around 2008, there were many studies each year.
Cont.
Also, I learned that doctors are not required to report categorized death statistics. So to answer it's question, my report is that this information is (purposely?) not available and so it is disqualified as a legitimate question. But of course "it" knew that. This blog is bogged down. We need to go on about our business. What was effective in "its" past was to post beneath: "Ignore it. This comment is forum disrupting, baiting, and has been answered previously."
Why would it be safe in 200 years if most of the fuel has a half life of 10,000 years? I am puzzled by this.
Lifting rebar cages into place.
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Digging a foundation with appropriate equipment.
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Mobile concrete batching plant could be moved on site:
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World's largest concrete pump for foundations, filling containments, and building sarcophagus.
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We will need a couple very large mobile cranes to lift prefabricated forms and rebar cages from barges to foundation and sarcophagus:
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Mo Mo, the world's largest mobile crane. 🙂
Japan gotta think big on the Fukushima Sarcophagus Project.
With good planning, and a maximum of off-site prefabrication, worker radiation exposure can be minimized.
Probably have to pour the foundation underwater. But even that can be done.
Maybe they need to get "Big Bertha" the tunnel digger back from Seattle.