And Now… Polyester Covers Will Be Built Around Melting Down Fukushima Reactors

May 13th, 2011

Via: Wall Street Journal / Dow Jones:

Giant polyester covers will soon be placed around the damaged reactor buildings at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex to help contain the release of radioactive substances into the atmosphere, the plant operator said Friday.

Tokyo Electric Power Co. will install the first cover at the No. 1 reactor, the focus of recent stabilization efforts.

Workers will erect a steel framework and place a giant polyester tent-like cover around the reactor building. The cover will be 55 meters high, 47 meters long and 42 meters wide.

The operation to fit the cover will begin next month. Similar covers will be placed around units Nos. 3 and 4. The work is expected to be completed by the end of the year.

5 Responses to “And Now… Polyester Covers Will Be Built Around Melting Down Fukushima Reactors”

  1. tochigi says:

    from the criminal to the ridiculous.

  2. tochigi says:

    you see, the Japanese power companies are the creation of the bureaucrats, and the bureaucrats are unable to assess risks or deal with the consequences of their risk-taking. and the politicians are incapable of reining in the bureacrats. so it looks hopeless all round for Japan Inc.

  3. Larry Glick says:

    Leisure Suits! Send them leisure suits. These will certainly scare the radiation away with poor taste!

  4. steve holmes says:

    Last time I checked, tents that covered boiling water reactors and their cooling pools that will emit steam for the next 20 years or so tended to be positive air pressurized from the liquid water turning to vapor. Sunlight will heat them up too, causing the same effect. Unless they are going to put massive air handling units on each of the tents and run the excess air through scrubbers before releasing it into the environment, the ONLY thing this will ultimately accomplish is hiding the wreckage from prying eyes and killing everyone who goes inside of the tents because of the concentration of radioactivity… that is currently being released into the air and dumped into the ocean. Duh….

  5. Miraculix says:

    Thanks for the hilarious mental image Mr Glick:

    Quick! Somebody call up the old code jockeys at Sierra Software! NOW is clearly the right time to resurrect that sleazy old cad “Leisure Suit Larry” for another profitable round of frolic & fun in…

    Leisure Suit Larry VII: Leisure Suit Larry and the Fukushima F**kup

    In this modern epilogue, the long-retired Larry travels to Tokyo bent on bribing as many power utility & government officials as he possibly can. Armed with the usual assortment of geisha girls, mysterious powders and lubricants, questionable judgment and no moral fiber whatsoever, our polyester-clad protagonist finds himself turned upside-down when radiation from the tragic Fukushima F**kup causes crucial body parts to stop performing properly.

    To rescusitate his radioactive rod, Larry is forced to embark on a dark journey deep into the bowels of the Japanese underworld, hell-bent on purchasing the one legendary substance capable of reanimating his flagging friend.

    Miles beneath the Tokyo, he discovers a teeming network of alien tunnels clearly linking every nuclear facility constructed around the world, populated by a bizarre blend of local gangsters, military black ops personnel and an unbelievable assortment of walking weirdness.

    Naturally, Larry parties with them all. Along the way, in true Leisure Suit fashion, our muddle-headed hero inadvertently stumbles on the real agenda of the nuclear industry, uncovers a shocking truth about Ronald Reagan and discovers the subterranean chamber where millions of slaves feed their fallen to Dick Cheney’s voracious heart.

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