Posted on 11/27/2018 11:29:14 AM PST by Tilting
Lake Barrett: It's even a bigger project in my view. But there's a will here to clean this up as there was a will to put a man on the moon. And these engineering tasks can be done successfully.
Lesley Stahl: Why not just bury this place? Why not do what they did at Chernobyl? Just cover it up, bury it, and just leave it here all-- you know, enclosed?
Lake Barrett: Number one this is right next to the sea. We're 100 yards from the ocean. We have typhoons here in Japan. This is also a high earthquake zone. And there's gonna be future earthquakes. So these are unknowns that the Japanese and no one wants to deal with.
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After you lose containment whereas your melted cores travel outside the once hermetically sealed concrete vaults to origins unknown, the radioactive melts are into the open environment with no cure presently known to deal with it.
Surrounding the melts with water helps shield the radioactivity to a certain extent but what to do with the water that is now radioactively contaminated?
Reports says that 1,000 tons of radioactive melt per blown reactor or (3) x 1,000 tons = 3,000 tons of radioactive melt that has to be removed, whenever they discover where it is. This is a low ball figure since the radioactive melts continue to irradiate the surrounding environment and produce even more radioactive materials for removal.
Radiation poisoning is best explain like being stab with a knife and dying 40 or 50 years later. Being exposed to radiation when older doesn't matter much in that case but it is the kids esp. young girls that are most vulnerable since they are still developing and adding mass susceptible to cell damage by radiation.
“Number one this is right next to the sea. We’re 100 yards from the ocean. We have typhoons here in Japan. This is also a high earthquake zone. And there’s gonna be future earthquakes. So these are unknowns that the Japanese and no one wants to deal with.”
” no one knows exactly where *inside the reactor buildings* the fuel is.”
Anyway, I thoght we all already died from Fukushima?
90% of Freepers are too ignorant to do anything except holler “Give me some of that clean nuclear power”. If you want to see how the human race can be brainwashed then look no further.
Apparently lots of FReepers have forgotten that the US detonated dozens of A and H bombs in the Pacific about 60 years ago. Shouldn’t we all have died from that?
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Do you really think that no one has died from that? Just because it doesn’t happen at the snap of your fingers. Reactor meltdowns are far worse in terms of fallout than nuclear bombs however. Compare Chernobyl to Hiroshima. Obviously there is very little comparison since people are living in Hiroshima.
There are more than a few nuclear warheads down there too.
How many times are we dead now?
[Lesley Stahl]
One of the greatest nuclear physicists of all time.
A good chuck of the desert southwest of the US is naturally radioactive due to exposed uranium. It just sits out on the ground.
Then there is Aberdeen Scotland. The town is built out of radioactive granite. Supposedly, its safe.
The whole Earth is radioactive. Humanity keeps marching on.
As bad as Fukushima was, I worry much more about a asteroid strike or the Sun becoming unstable than that.
Okay
Pripyat, Ukraine may be a ghost town but for all intents and purposes is now a wild life sanctuary where apex predators roam free and live healthy lives right on the grounds of the Chernobyl power plant. Birds and bats nest inside the Chernobyl sarcophagus and appear to suffer no ill effects.
Hiroshima is a thriving city populated by people indiscernible from other people in Japan.
What this tells me is that relatively high levels of radioactive contamination and chronic radiation exposure can be tolerated with little or no ill effects.
I don’t worry much about that stuff because there is little chance that it will happen in my lifetime and there is nothing I can do to stop it anyway.
I don’t worry about radiation because life grew up around it and I figure since life is still here it learned to deal with it as a matter of course.
The Earth was much more radioactive billions of years ago when life got started it had to have mechanisms to overcome the damage. Sure those repair mechanisms don’t always work but that’s life.
The evidence of Chernobyl, Hiroshima and several other accidents all show that low level chronic radiation has no statistically discernible adverse effects on health. Some studies actually show a benefit to health.
“Reactor meltdowns are far worse in terms of fallout than nuclear bombs however.”
Um, no. They’re not.
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Your “Facts” are inaccurate as it was recently reported that there are serious problems with mutations of wild life in that are. But why don’t you just go there and pitch a tent for a couple of years and show us how safe it is.
we are in Elysium
Got a link?
Between 1945 and 1998 there were 2053 Nuclear Explosions around the world. Heck, from 1945 to 1955 the US alone detonated 69 nuclear explosions.
A Time-Lapse Map of Every Nuclear Explosion Since 1945 - by Isao Hashimoto
Going by public perception of what Nuclear explosions do to the environment, most of the continents and a certain parts of the ocean should all be glowing at night.
Most of the US explosions were done on the WEST COAST of the US. Everyone there should be dead.
Not to mention the 974 nuclear explosions my state endured.
I think you know how to do a Google search for “Chernobyl mutations”.
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