Published: January 21st, 2015 at 10:43 pm ET
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NHK, Jan 21, 2015 (emphasis added): Regulators approve Fukushima wastewater drainage — Japan’s nuclear regulator has approved a plan by [TEPCO] to drain filtered wastewater from the firm’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi plant into the sea… The firm also plans to reduce the level of radioactive material in the water before releasing it into the nearby Pacific. On Wednesday, the Nuclear Regulation Authority approved TEPCO’s plan to install drainpipes and a pumping system and to reduce the level of radioactive cesium-137 to less than one becquerel per liter.
NHK Transcript, Jan 21, 2015: Japanese regulators have approved a controversial plan by [TEPCO]. They say TEPCO officials can flush filtered waste water into the ocean… Fisherman: “We can’t trust Tepco… If they proceed with their plan the situation will surely go back to how it was before. I’m worried the government and Tepco will act to suit themselves.”
Wall St Journal, Jan 21, 2015: Japan’s nuclear regulator has officially called on [Tepco] to work toward discharging low-level contaminated water… just two days after a worker fell into [a tank] used to store contaminated water… Tepco is using a processing system [that] is unable to take out the tritium [and] is reluctant to release it into the ocean to avoid… criticism from neighboring countries and some nations with a Pacific Ocean coastline… there is no detailed study about tritium’s long-time effect on animal genes. Mamoru Takata, a Kyoto University professor and expert on radiation’s long-term effects, said monitoring would be necessary to detect any worrisome signals.
TEPCO: [ALPS] is designed to remove most remaining radioactive contaminants
TEPCO (pdf): (ALPS) — Removal capacity: Reduce 62 nuclides below the density limit
Asahi Shimbun in Jan. 2012: “To prevent a further contamination of the sea [Tepco] plans to remove about 1,000 kinds of radioactive materials from water”
Japan Atomic Energy Agency (pdf), Feb 2014: TOPICS Fukushima — [W]e carried out detailed calculations… for 1,200 radionuclides, and the results were incorporated into a database.
Dr. Gordon Edwards, court-certified nuclear expert, Aug 8, 2014 (50:00 in): It can’t be dumped into the ocean, because it’s completely unsafe because of these fission products. They have built over 1,000 large tanks, huge tanks… that contain this very, very radioactively contaminated water. At the moment they’re trying to filter out these fission products… It’s impossible for them to remove all those hundreds of radioactive materials. They know how to remove about 62 of them, but there’s other ones that they cannot.
Published: January 21st, 2015 at 10:43 pm ET
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So here is the thing….I could put a 100 camera video monitoring system into WIPP for less than $20,000. However, they are going to spend $500M estimated to Recover the plant, so that means $1.5B.
And with cameras they could see problems before they are big problems. They could also do post investigation and get better results. In fact they still haven't produced any real theory as to why the barrels blew up on Valentines night. And why the heck were 60 workers there on Valentines night?
Sounds very suspicious, what kind of hanky panky was going on?
But they still don't have cameras. And so a recent cave roof collapse that could have burst other radioactive drums occurred, and they didn't know about it until long after the fact.
These asshats are just amazing. Its time to yank their contracts and get someone else in there.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2015/01/wipp-in-another-failure-trying-to.html
Hanky panky, like trucking out the salt they mine to construct the panels to be sold by the ton? LOL, wee hanky panky, but really not funny.
NOTE to new viewers…do NOT purchase "ancient mineral salt* as noted on so many organic health food labels. NO to organic sea salt too. 🙁
I am so hungry for something salty right now…
🙁
Yeah and night trucking the water waste out of the mine to dispose of where? on top of some freaking prairie chickens..
WIPP IT good, playing hankie pankie down in a deep dark shaft…
Maybe it's time to separate the wheat from the shaft..
Sorry, couldn't resist..
Stock started it…
LOL stock out
Oh man…LOL! Good one.
@name999 And where would good salt be? Well huh, gawd, let's see…at the grocery store after passing on the Nevada salt and California salt, I wondered maybe Himalayan pink?
No, wait a sec. Is it sourced from high altitude soaking up the rads up there or what? I actually ended up going home with no salt until I get a chance to ask some companies about their sources.
I crushed some old Mediterranean coarse salt I had around for ice cream making, with a rolling pin. I *think* it was pre-Fuki.
Oh the things we could have invested in, had we but known.
Did you know the word salary comes from the Italian word for salt? Pronounced sah leh, I think?
Oh did you notice Leslie Salt now says ionized instead of iodized?
Kidding, kidding, kidding. 🙂
There's a guy who collects Atlantic sea water to dry for salt. Would that be better? They are gourmet and pricey though.
Try Faeries Finest Peruvian Mountain Spring Salt from Amazon. Salt of the Incas.
Southern Hemisphere…got to be a little less radiation.
Louisiana dome salt is cheap, so I hear.
Right dosdos? They may even find some extra while they are building that detour for I 70.. due to the salt dome collapse. http://theadvocate.com/news/11078528-125/plans-on-the-table-for
had to go check on Bayou Corne.. ugh.. "Texas Brine’s plans to discharge water into sinkhole draws concerns"
"Texas Brine Co.’s push for a five-year state permit to discharge salty groundwater with traces of benzene and toluene into the Bayou Corne-area sinkhole has drawn concerns from environmentalists and landowners near the swampland hole in Assumption Parish.
The process has been underway for a year through short-term permits to help remove potentially dangerous methane gas collecting beneath the Bayou Corne community.
…
Testing has shown that the water from the aquifer, which is no longer used for drinking water in Assumption Parish, contains trace amounts of toluene and benzene and other contaminants and has a high salt content."
http://theadvocate.com/news/10234852-125/texas-brines-plans-to-discharge
Rad free salt will be worth it's weight in gold in a few years.
After WHIIP we fled NM..Mow things are much worse…What can we do?
The world needs to know the fate of WIPP, the fate engineers thought was a good idea; a football field of poison, red hot at 700 deg, pressurized to 2000+ pounds per inch, enough poison to kill off the planet. ….At least that is what I recall reading the expected conditions to be…
Code, actually, they have 7 of 8 zones completely filled.
The stuff that they still want to put into WIPP (aka they call is low level) is enough radiation to bring every plant and animal in the entire world up to 70 Bq/lb
Wrap your head around that, here is the proof
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-radiation-still-to-go-into-wipp-can.html
lastchants, you bring up something so relevant…where to get safe salt? If anywhere?
stock, that is just disgusting…who could make this up?
We get sea salt from Trader Joe's. It says it's from Spain.
Would Himalayan salt be a better
choice? what about the discharges from
Nuclear France and GB into the seas around there.
Currents do travel.
Yes, Himalayan salt is a better choice for many reasons. it is mined and comes out of the ground for one…
"Himalayan Salt comes from deep within the Himalayan Mountains. The salt is chipped out by hand and brought to the surface."
http://www.yoursaltlamps.com/faq.php
http://www.natural-salt-lamps.com/salt.html
cataclysmic…honestly, it seems a small thing relative to our focus here but…
thanks for that! That will be the one.
Brilliant proposal—but I wonder how cameras in place could function after blowups or even the release of xxxxxxxbecquerels of rad? Maybe encase the cameras in lead shielding?
at jo
$100 a piece, just replace them.
It would provide clues methinks
Forget worry about cameras..the WIPP ceilings are collapsing. See Fukuleaks and Current Argus..or my post today on the WIPP area. Seven areas in trouble.and air issues…
Excellent, maybe its done forever, a brilliant success story.
Maybe the end to the hot potato game of shittium on the highway.
To bad we are sitting on a pile they have dug up here from INL.
Guess we will have to bury it again, and again, and again……
No limit to stupid
Who knows whether or not they have cameras. All we know is that WE don't have photos….
They don't want any record of what does on in their cave
Yes. stock. Too bad for the Nuke Cabal that James Conca isn't in charge at WIPP. In that case, no one would ever suspect that, with a face like his, anything nefarious could be going on at WIPP.(I visited Nuke Pro) Jose Franco is running things there now, though. Now his face is another story altogether. The word creepy might describe his face. Would you trust Jose alone with your children? One look at Jose, and I would suspect him to be involved in foul play immediately. But, of course, I already know the waters of foul play run deep at WIPP. Very, very, very, deep; and not just underground. The downplaying, covering up, and obfuscating there are Masterful. WIPP is being managed by Professionals; at doing what? Well, obviously, their expertise is not in containing radiation below ground. I noticed on Michael V.B.'s chart collection that venting Plutonium and Americium from WIPP in September and October, prior to the "Fan Test" the week of the 20th, shows up on Gamma Charts in Europe. It is no wonder that radiation collected on filters from the "Fan Test" was at "expected levels". Peace
Ya ISPC TY
Fan test….remove plutonium and gift it to the world.
Criminals.
"I could put a 100 camera video monitoring system into WIPP for less than $20,000."
I doubt that. 200 per camera. Nope.
I just bought an 8 camera setup for $450….just saying
They plan on spending $500M to "recover" and probably each trip to the underground with all the BS hazmat, planning, comms, bureaucracy, high davis bacon wages is around $1,000,000.
Point is,,,,put some freaking cameras down there! What if the cost was $100,000, or $1M
Hey, maybe they can build a Fukushima Shrine alongside the Yasukuni Shrine, so future Prime Ministers can visit, worship and pay their respects to Japan's war heroes and its environmental heroes at the same time at the same time?
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese prosecutors have stuck to their decision not to indict three former Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) executives over their handling of the 2011 Fukushima disaster, but a rarely used citizen's panel could still force an indictment.
The prosecutors decided not to issue indictments because of insufficient evidence, a spokesman for Tokyo District Public Prosecutor's Office said on Thursday…
http://news.yahoo.com/prosecutors-wont-indict-former-tepco-execs-over-fukushima-093328667–finance.html
A reminder:
Yasukuni and the Enshrinement of War Criminals | Nippon.com
The advent of the second Abe Shinzō cabinet has rekindled the bitter controversy over official visits to Yasukuni Shrine, where war criminals are honored alongside Japan's other war dead.
nippon.com/en/in-depth/a02404/
What Is a 'Class-A War Criminal'? More on the Yasukuni …
Westboro Church protestor, AP photo via NPR. If you are joining us late, background on why it matters so much in China — and Japan — that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited the Yasukuni Shrine in Tokyo, and whether it should in fact matter, is in previous installments one, two, three, four …
theatlantic.com/international/archive/2014/01/what-is-a-c…
Yasukuni…
This is brilliant too! I may try commenting as such on some Japanese newspaper printed in English. Yasukuni is more sacred to the 1% running the country than it is to most ordinary Japanese of today, most of whom are definitely victims of TEPCO and co. This idea is soooooo apt for sending a jab in the butt of the 1%.
Yoichi Shimatsu says that Abe's grandfather was a major war criminal during WWII, who somehow escaped prosecution, but that he was one of the worst. But Abe continues his militarism.
These people seem to have no capacity to honor the living. What they do about the dead won't change that.
At random:
Where war criminals are venerated
Tuesday, January 14, 2003 Posted: 12:08 AM EST (0508 GMT)
The Yasukuni Shrine is dedicated to about 2.5 million people who have died in Japan's conflicts between 1853 and 1945.
Their names are inscribed in the shrine's Book of Souls, and venerated as "gunshin", or war gods.
In 1978, 1,068 convicted war criminals, among them executed wartime prime minister Hideki Tojo and 13 other Class A war criminals, were secretly enshrined there.
The shrine's authorities are reluctant to accept the verdict of war crimes tribunals, and history.
"War is a really tragic thing to happen, but it was necessary in order for us to protect the independence of Japan and to prosper together with Asian neighbors," explains a pamphlet published by the shrine, aimed at children.
Referring to the convicted war criminals, the pamphlet says: "Some 1,068 people, who were wrongly accused as war criminals by the Allied court, were enshrined here." …
http://edition.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/08/13/japan.shrine/
– Sounds like just the place for a Fukushima Shrine.
Hopefully they include this hero.
"Lt. Gen. Shiro Ishii was the primary organizer, promoter and director of the Japanese biological warfare (BW) program. He was involved at all levels from pitch-man to the Japanese military and academia to personally supervising research on human subjects. He began his work research in the potential of biological weapons in the late 1920s."
https://contagions.wordpress.com/2012/07/14/japanese-use-of-plague-during-world-war-ii/
TOP SECRET Unit 731 – US CIA And Military Involvement With Japanese Class A War Criminals And Death Camp Human Experimentation, World War II
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/10/unit-731-us-cia-and-military.html
The CIA didn't originate until September, 1947. So they couldn't have been involved in Germany during WWII.
Or Japan during WWII. They may have recruited a few war criminals after the war, after 1947. Spying has always involved recruiting foreign nationals to spy in their own country and report to the foreign country.
Many brave French men and women spied for the Western Allies during WWII to successfully end the German foreign occupation and the Holocaust.
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/kalamazoo/index.ssf/2014/09/viewpoint_anthony_j_vitale.html#incart_story_package#comments
Palisades is pimping "we are safe" joke
Drunk workers on site
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2013/09/palisades-worker-found-drunk-on-job-she.html
The only reason they keep running this clunker is because there is no other option, it is too expensive to shut down.
http://nukeprofessional.blogspot.com/2012/04/cash-for-clunkers-palisades-in-spot.html
Coming attractions, courtesy of the Shinzo Abe Fukushima Circus:
http://fukushima-diary.com
Large mammals die in rapid succession in Ueno Zoological Gardens from tumor, heart failure etc..
223,000 Bq/Kg of Cs-134/137 detected from Jacopever inner Fukushima plant port
129 dead tunas found to have broken spine / Experts “can be caused by stress and mass hysteria”
Over 80% of Tuna died since December in a major Tokyo aquarium
Strontium attacks bones, maybe that's why their spines were broken.
JR East to Run Bus thru Fukushima No-Entry Zone
http://jen.jiji.com/jc/eng?g=eco&k=2015012200936
– Special Offer: free hormesis treatment for all passengers
https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/
(via Nucnet)
France’s Regulator Criticises Areva Over Waste Management At La Hague
Doomsday clock, related to nuclear disarmament, is too close to midnight: Guest viewpoint via MassLive
Austria to launch lawsuit over Hinkley Point C nuclear subsidies via The Guardian
Nothing good will come of this. Free cans of whitewash for all participants. Low-dose radiation will be found to be harmless, and may even be good for you. It's a sick world:
20 January 2015
The US Department of Energy (DOE) and National Academy of Sciences have been directed to work together to assess the current status of US and international research on low-dose radiation and to formulate a long-term research agenda under a bill approved by the US House of Representatives.
The Low Dose Radiation Research Act of 2015 (HR 35) directs the two organisations to carry out a research program "to enhance the scientific understanding of and reduce uncertainties associated with the effects of exposure to low dose radiation in order to inform improved risk management methods."
The study is to be completed within 18 months…
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/RS-US-House-passes-low-dose-radiation-bill-2001158.html
So long as they continue to call it "low dose," they may get nowhere. They need to start calling it what it is: chronic, cumulative, ongoing, escalating.
It would be good to know who authored this bill though — is it to produce back-up propaganda through an "official study"?
On the other hand, since this seems to be the first bill of its kind, someone obviously knows something.
The nuclear renaissance-that-never-was is over. As a brazen propaganda campaign — “if we say there is a nuclear renaissance then there is one” was pretty much all there was to it — it has belly-flopped into an empty swimming pool. Even the mainstream media is dismissing the notion now as a never-was-and-never-will-be mirage (although it meekly bought in for a long time before the evidence of the sham was incontrovertible.)
But like the old man in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the nuclear industry continues to claim that it is “not dead” yet and actually “getting better.”
Consequently, in a last ditch attempt to belie reality, the nuclear industry endeavors to reinvent itself with a steady parade of better nuclear mouse-traps. One day it’s the Small Modular Reactor! Then it’s the Answer to Climate Change! Or it’s got to be the Fast Integral Reactor!
http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/01/22/the-nuclear-renaissance-is-over/
How would it happen? Let's envision control rods slipping into place to slow and stop all world wide nuclear fission for the last time, all spent fuel pools given highest priority and secured in most effective ways, waste dumps like WIPP etc. addressed with upmost attention. Dumps in the oceans, lakes and rivers located and dealt with. Technology developed to remove dispersed radioactivity from the sea, air and land. Global celebration and relief from this Sword of Damocles perpetually hanging over our heads. Humans created this nuclear mess… Humans can solve it.* *Hopefully.
Humans did create this mess. But they cannot solve it. In 70 years, they have really not even tried.
Maybe higher powers can solve this mess. Humans can't/wont. It's past tipping point and ongoing, escalating, cumulative.
http://thecontrail.com/profiles/blogs/the-ongoing-tragedy-of-fukushima-and-the-world
Hot Rods?
http://juiceboxforyou.com/2015/01/the-abandoned-cars-of-fukushima/
Radioactive Cars And Steel From Japan Being Refused And Shipped Back By Multiple Countries; via @AGreenRoad
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2014/01/fukushima-radiation-contaminated-cars.html
http://pablofigueroa.org/2015/01/22/nuclear-power-and-education/
Uh oh! Tepco stops work decommissioning Fukushima to probe worker accidents …
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/01/22/national/tepco-suspends-fukushima-no-1-cleanup-to-probe-fatal-accidents/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tepco-suspends-fukushima-no-1-cleanup-to-probe-fatal-accidents#.VMGc1mt5mSM
"Tokyo Electric Power Co. on Thursday said it will suspend the decommissioning of the Fukushima No. 1 power plant until it completes safety checks related to two fatal accidents at its facilities in the prefecture earlier this week."
They are probably looking for more homeless people to shanghai.
Asshats just want to delay their rate of cash burn
Maybe so. But it is probably also SO unsafe to work there by now, that it may be more trouble to clean up the dead bodies than to stop the work.
It's probably people dying ON SITE that's the problem. I can't imagine that they care about those who go home to die.
Probably slipping and falling on these thick metal plates covering the ground there.
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html
Regulator to probe fault near nuclear plant
Jan. 23, 2015
Japan's nuclear regulator will study next month an active seismic fault that exists near a nuclear power plant in Shimane Prefecture, western Japan.
The fissure is 2 kilometers south of the complex at its closest point. …
http://majiasblog.blogspot.com.au
High Radiation Levels Measured in Southern Japan and Around Tokyo
343 Sites NETC.com
TEPCO TIME STAMP FOR THIS MAP IS 23:19 Jan 21 2015
Heavy emissions visible on the TEPCO cams because it is raining, which always produces visible emissions. However, I suspect the high radiation readings measured from Netc are coming from some location other than Daiichi, perhaps in South Korea.
Must have more "precious"!
UK nuclear ambitions dealt fatal blow by Austrian legal challenge, say Greens
Lawyers say legal delays could prevent UK from realising its ambitions for new nuclear reactors at Hinkley Point C by 2023
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jan/22/uk-nuclear-ambitions-dealt-fatal-blow-by-austrian-legal-challenge-say-greens
TRANSPORT FUKU WATER IN TANKER TO AMERICA
What if some one filled an oil tanker
with Fukushima radiated water and
sailed it to lets say some East Coast
port area off shore and dumped it.
or even on WestCoast. would this
not freak everybody out and perhaps
cause hysteria about Fukushima.
Would this be considered a terrorist act.
Though the dumping by Tepco is not.
Yes. Sam. TY. Good Point. Peace
Well, if it wasn't announced in the daily news, was just dumped, and did not immediately, visibly, start killing off wildlife on a beach before everyone's face, maybe no one would even notice.
On the other hand, if it were a fraction as much, but announced publicly as "dangerous." yeah, people would freak.
What does that say about PEOPLE?
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/news/nuclear.html
Treating wastewater making slow progress
Jan. 23, 2015
The amount of highly radioactive water at the plant increases by about 350 tons per day. The water mostly flows in from nearby mountains, and is pumped up and stored in tanks.
As of January 15th, around 280,000 tons were stored in 1,000 tanks. The plant has little room for more.
In August 2013, about 300 tons of contaminated water leaked from one of the tanks. The firm later made the promise to treat the water by March.
But the main water processing system, called ALPS, stopped operating many times due to trouble. The company remodeled it and installed another system that only removes strontium from the water.
The firm considers water processed when strontium is removed.
But even this less ambitious goal required the operator to treat 4,000 tons of water per day to meet the deadline.
Processed water still contains radioactive substances and must be stored in tanks.
The firm has not decided how to dispose of the water.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/japan-s-fukushima-cleanup-3-years-on-little-key-work-done-1.2832270
By Mari Yamaguchi, The Associated Press Posted: Nov 12, 2014
… Currently, more than 500,000 tons of radioactive water is being stored in nearly 1,000 large tanks which now cover most of the sprawling plant. After a series of leaks last year, the tanks are being replaced with costlier welded ones. …
– so would anyone care to explain how 500,000 tons of radioactive water in 1000 tanks (Associated Press, November 24), 2014 has suddenly become 280,000 tons in 1000 tanks (NHK, January 23, 2015)?
Yes. rogerthat. Nice catch. I'm collating. Peace
"The firm considers water processed when strontium is removed."
I'd like them to drink the rest themselves, then talk about "processed."
Most doubtful they can do even that much (that ONE radionuclide out of about 2,000.) The Wigner Effect alone corrodes, bends, and breaks metal. And the tanks there were never built up to ANY viable standard in the first place.
And this is from The Guardian, on March 10, 2014:
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/mar/10/fukushima-operator-dump-contaminated-water-pacific
… Currently about 400 tonnes of groundwater is streaming into the reactor basements from the hills behind the plant each day. The plant has accumulated about 300,000 tonnes of contaminated water, which is being stored in 1,200 tanks occupying a large swath of the Fukushima Daiichi site.
Eventually Tepco hopes to have enough space to store 800,000 tonnes, but fears are rising that it will run out of space sometime next year because it can't keep up with the flow of toxic water…
… and this is from The Australian, on March 11, 2014:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/…fukushima…/story-fnb64oi6-12…The Australian
Mar 11, 2014 – At present, 436,000 tonnes of it is stored in 1,200 tanks at the Fukushima plant, …
… and this is from Reuters, on May 14, 2014:
… About 1,200 to 1,300 tanks storing about 450,000 tonnes of contaminated water are on site and over the next two years Tepco wants to set up enough tanks to store 800,000 tonnes of water, said Kenichiro Matsui, a spokesman for the utility. …
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/05/14/us-japan-nuclear-kennedy-idUSBREA4D0EF20140514
Yes. rogerthat. TY. Great riddle. All the highly radioactive water is going directly into the Pacific Ocean. Peace
Equipment Needed To Decommission Fukushima:
The idea is to demolish the buildings and move Four GE Mark 1 reactors onto barges for disposal at sea.
Heavy Lift Crane To Load Containments1-4 Onto Barges:
http://www.ansnuclearcafe.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/vogtle-crane-sep-2012.jpg
http://gcaptain.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/TUSHAR_12_11_06_027121_2.jpg
http://www.marineinsight.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/Sheerleg-Kaisho4.jpg
Barge Under Tow:
http://www.amfirstbooks.com/IntroPages/NonToolbarTopics/Black_Ops/Japan_Quake-Nuclear_Catastrophe_2011/Art/2011-04-21_HAARP-Sea-Based_X-Band_Radar_SBX_floating-platform.jpg
Picture of GE Mark 1 Reactor at Fukushima:
GE Mark 1 Reactor
If a crane capable of lifting a GE Mark 1 Containment doesn't exist, then build one. 🙂
Firgot to paste the link for the GE Mark 1 photo:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Browns_Ferry_Unit_1_under_construction.jpg
Not happening. BUu I'm confused even about the point of this. The coriums are completely out of containment. Removing building debris does nothing to change that. And maybe no one could do any onloading anyway without fatally nuked themselves.
I actually haven't a CLUE by now why you suggest this, except that maybe it's better to keep thinking than to give up.
They want it out of sight so they can go ahead with the Olympics and keep selling radioactive goods and food and nuclear energy plants all over the world.
Pacific ain't goin to hell fast enough for you eh? The rantings of a lunatic.
Fukushima Impermeable Wall:
An Interlocking Sheet Steel Impermeable Wall Enclosure For Reactors1-4:
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/TrmhsqjIkrk/maxresdefault.jpg
Pilings are pounded into the layer of less permeable mudstone that forms the lower limit of the aquifer at Fukushima Diiachi, at a depth of approximately 100'.
Prime Minister Abe (in red hat) has seen the Impermeable Wall up close and personal.
https://d13uygpm1enfng.cloudfront.net/article-imgs/en/2013/09/20/AJ201309200051/AJ201309200052M.jpg
The Impermeable Wall Enclosure should have been built before the end of 2012. But here we are in 2015, with work suspended.
The original design was all wrong: A U-shaped wall built across the harbor side only. What happened is that water backed up behind the wall, threatening to flood the plant. 12 pumps located behind Reactors1-4 found that groundwater was already contaminated even before passing over the corium in the ground underneath Reactors1-3.
What is needed is an underground wall enclosure around Reactors1-4.
Build the uphill half of the wall first to avoid flooding.
http://www.world-nuclear-news.org/rs-additional-measures-for-fukushima-water-management-1408144.html
Japan is a sick society. The politicians are sick, the administration is sick, the judiciary is sick, the media is sick. Poor people, to be saddled with such shit.
What they are working on now is a Frozen Wall:
http://www.engineering.com/portals/0/BlogFiles/Fuku2.jpg
Now, PM Abe, you have 3 nuclear cores in the ground fissioning away, releasing heat into a fast flowing river of groundwater. Just how will the ground ever freeze, do you think? 😉
Yes. PhilipUpNorth. TY. It is clear to me that the Japanese, as a whole, cannot deal with, in any respect, the crisis they are facing at Fukushima. Their concepts for any type of engineering remediation at FDNPP are just plain insipid. It must be that the radiation has made their brains smaller. Something is very wrong.
Unless help is offered by the world community, and accepted by the Japanese Government, there will be no timely, and remedial progress at the FDNPP. I would be interested to hear of any progress that has been made in the past four years by TEPCO toward containing the radiation coming from the Coria, or Fuel Pools.
All the claims of progress by TEPCO to this date are nothing more than lies. For instance, TEPCO claims safe removal of fuel rods from Reactor Building Four. I suggest the list goes on and on.
I like your ideas on containment, and remediation, PhilipUpNorth; always have. I think to implement them would be solid progress. It is clear that nothing sensible is being done by the Japanese; nothing. Today, years later, all life is in more peril from Fukushima than it has been since the beginning of this seemingly apocalyptic event. Maybe someday…. Hope it is sooner rather than later. Peace
They gave up on the ice wall:
The Ice-Wall Go-eth – Japan Scraps Fukushima Freezing Plan
08/14/2014
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-08-14/ice-wall-go-eth-japan-scraps-fukushima-freezing-plan
http://ec.europa.eu/energy/en/topics/nuclear-energy/radiation-protection
This looks like an interesting place to find stuff
Credibility is something that's hard to come by. If some of you off-topic posters only KNEW how STUPID you sound sometimes.
Maybe youre just ignorant, mmm?
Credibility? On Fukushima? On Matters Nuclear? Now that sounds like a good idea, draw up a list of people with N-cred.
Might be the shortest book ever written.
Off topic..let's see.
1. The largest Manmade NuclearAccident to ever happen on this Earth has occurred.
2. This massive Nuclear Accident happened inside a Nation that is Occupied by the U.S.
3. There is no news anywhere on the main stream news channels about this Accident.
4. For some reason any ideas and/or solutions are being stopped by the government under control of the occupying country and that country would be the U.S.
5. Environmental damage is being done 24/7 and apparently approved by both governments.
6. The finest scientists and environmental researchers in the world say nothing about what is really going on at the Accident site.
7. It looks like the only ones that care seem to post here at enenews.com.
8. Somehow people want to stay on topic when there is absolutely no way to change what is happening regarding the topic presented. Millions of star fish die on west coast. Nothing changed and all of them died.
9. Now if we could change what is going on right now or correct it would we not need both government approvals to do such a thing? Pretty sure this has to do with the Rule of Law.
10. Does it look like any of these governments are doing what is in the best interests of their respective populations whom are all controlled by the Rule of Law?
The Nuclear eco-disaster train has left the building and jumped the tracks some time ago… 🙁
I have a shorter answer – fix the friggin Off Topic forum !
Oops no disrespect to what you state above, obe.. I agree 100% with u
Yes bo, if we can't fix the off topic forum then how do we think we humans can correct 3 out of control Nuclear Meltdowns? Not going to happen..
+ infinity!
Well I think a musical Lament is ON TOPIC!!!
http://youtu.be/Mwxga8udIio
uilleann pipes
Thanks a bunch smells. That was sad. Are you Irish?
http://suicideprevention.ie/
Me – I'm going to drink and listen to
http://youtu.be/GowMI4wvmU4
Hong Kong coast hit with toxic glowing blue algae bloom…
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/why-is-the-hong-kong-coast-glowing-an-eerie-blue/
Hello all…I am waiting for you down here
(www.restartchile.com). When will it be time to leave the NORTH? You talk all day about science and science says you must move south /correct me if I am wrong) and gain at least a few more years of a good life…
this is a quote from an article from the daily paul…
We've left the US. We chose Chile. (http://www.dailypaul.com/295334/we-left-the-us-we-chose-chile)
First, what happened? Five things, mainly:
Fukushima-inspired factors:
– southern hemisphere, because air in northern hemisphere air virtually doesn't mix with southern hemisphere
– southern hemisphere, because ocean currents of northern hemisphere virtually don't mix with southern hemisphere
– southern hemisphere, because 95% of pollution is generated in the northern hemisphere
– southern hemisphere, because 85% of rain forests (a natural pollution filter) are in the southern hemisphere
latest on sea creature deaths – Hawaii May 2017
http://enenews.com/tv-millions-of-dead-sea-creatures-wash-ashore-in-hawaii-carcasses-found-along-miles-of-beach-that-should-trigger-some-alarm-i-dont-know-whats-going-on-over-there-ive-nev/comment-page-1#comment-838825