Posted on 09/02/2013 4:38:23 AM PDT by Broker
(Reuters) - Japan vowed quick, decisive action, including the use of public funds, to tackle the worsening problem of contaminated water pouring from the wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant, as the authorities step in to help the facility's embattled operator.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the government "will step forward and implement all necessary policies" to deal with the flood of radioactive water from the plant, a legacy of the world's worst atomic disaster in a quarter century.
The government will present a "comprehensive package of measures" on the water problem as soon as Tuesday, a senior official said.
Tokyo's measures come amid proposals to create a government agency devoted to decommissioning the Fukushima plant and as some outside the government call for a break-up of the operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, or Tepco.
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More wailing moans for my professorial pachinko Pokemon, American nuclear safety is supported by USN nerds at INPO. http://www.inpo.info/
Our Mission
Our mission at the Institute of Nuclear Power Operations (INPO) is to promote the highest levels of safety and reliability – to promote excellence – in the operation of commercial nuclear power plants.
We work to achieve our mission by:
Establishing performance objectives, criteria and guidelines for the nuclear power industry
Conducting regular detailed evaluations of nuclear power plants
Providing assistance to help nuclear power plants continually improve their performance.
Nipponese nuclear standards were obviously deficient. Alarmists like me are ringing the big sepiku warning bell.
Yes, this is a buried issue refuted and denied. Shoot the messenger mentality abounds for concerned alarmists. What little we know has my total attention. This is unprecedented and consequential .
I knew better to than to respond to you. I admit that in that I was pretty stupid.
You're too modest... It should have been obvious to you that the specific reason I took on Broker's bogus assertion that "the ENTIRE Pacific Ocean is in jeopardy from tons & tons of daily radiation contamination" was that I understood that the distribution of contaminants would be non-uniform. Yet somehow you turned that presumption into ignorance of the fact. Instead of reading the post carefully to be sure about what I was saying, you leaped on the "opportunity" to correct me and got busted, again. Too bad for you that I had taken college courses in oceanology and fluid dynamics. Little did you know, as usual.
I've been handing you your hat for sophomoric environmental contentions for thirteen years. So keep trying; some day I will make a mistake and you'll get your big chance.
The reactor was scheduled for decommissioning. It was old technology. The reason old reactors are run past their design lives virtually worldwide is that it is so difficult to permit newer and safer technology, thanks to people like you.
Alarmists like me are ringing the big sepiku warning bell.
You first.
The biggest funders of anti-nuclear power generation are the major stockholders of oil and gas interests. They also oppose fracking, Rockefeller, Pew, W. Alton Jones... all of them.
Thanks for clarifying this issue.
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