Fukushima: Dealing with Highly Radioactive Water Could Take Decades, Cost Tens of Billions of Dollars
April 7th, 2011Via: Los Angeles Times:
For nearly four weeks, Japanese emergency crews have been spraying water on the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactors, a desperate attempt to avert the calamity of a full meltdown.
Now, that improvised solution to one nuclear nightmare is spawning another: what to do with the millions of gallons of water that has become highly radioactive as it washes through the plant.
The water being used to try to cool the reactors and the dangerous spent fuel rods is leaking through fissures inside the plant, seeping down through tunnels and passageways to the lowest levels, where it is accumulating into a sea of lethal waste.
No one is sure how to get rid of it safely.
“There is nothing like this, on this scale, that we have ever attempted to do before,” says Robert Alvarez, a former assistant secretary of the U.S. Energy Department.
Japanese officials estimate that they already have accumulated about 15 million gallons of highly radioactive water. Hundreds of thousands of gallons are being added every day as the plant’s operator, the Tokyo Electric Power Co., continues to feed coolant into the leaky structures.
Ultimately, the high-level radioactive substances in the water will have to be safely stored, processed and solidified, a job that experts say will almost certainly have to be handled on a specially designed industrial complex. The process of cleaning up the water could take many years, even decades, to complete. The cost could run into the tens of billions of dollars.
No one is sure of how to get rid of it safely. And now we need another specially designged industrial complex?
Okay. Who gets that job? Bechtel, Lockheed Martin, or whoever else it is in the US DOE that deals with nuclear energy and its waste management.
Thats who the major players are. Wonder which one of them has ownership in the HARP complex.
These scoundrels are playing on a really dirty gamble. Really. These guys are betting on a bad game of cards and MOST LIKELY have NO CLUE as to what KARMA is all about.
We don’t need to feed these morons. If its okay for this radioactive waste to wash out over the Earth with NO HARM TO HUMANS well, then what DO WE NEED YOU TO DO?
Get the message straight you morons. One day we’re all just fine. No raditation. No problems. The Next DAy we need you SUPER MORONS out there to clean up whatever it was that would never harm us to clean it up. And because its NUCLEAR (shiver and die) we need you, who told us not to be afraid to fix it?
Hey guys, we know how to read the English language. We have decided. We don’t need your flucking scare shit bullshit anymore. We are not scared of nuclear waste. Go find another way to get a life. We don’t you need your flucking scare SCAMS anymore. Just get out of here. You are a BAD SEED thought form.