Radioactive Waste Swamps Japan Sewage Plants

[DeSwiss]

Run time: 02:51 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mKUcdwoVfQ   Posted on YouTube: August 31, 2011 By YouTube Member: AlJazeeraEnglish Views on YouTube: 302   Posted on DU: August 31, 2011 By DU Member: DeSwiss Views on DU: 2015

 
Environmental experts in Japan are warning of new fallout from the country's nuclear crisis. Radioactive waste is piling up at several sewerage plants, well away from the crippled Fukushima reactor. Months after the tsunami and earthquake that triggered the nuclear meltdown, the government still has no policy on what to do with the waste.

Al Jazeera's Steve Chao reports from Saitama.

[ixion]

1. "The government is allowing waste with low-levels of radiation to be

turned into fertilizer."


That won't end well, I'm afraid.

[DeSwiss]

2. From what I've seen so far.....

...that could be said concerning just about everything this government has done in regard to this nuclear crisis. Ultimately, I think they will have to abandon much of northern Japan.

- If the government doesn't initiate it, nature will through attrition.....

[ixion]

3. Yeah, I agree... and the irony is they justify doing so

as 'keeping the peace'. :crazy:

The status quo will hang on tooth-and-nail until we're entirely screwed. We've already passed that Point of No Return, in my opinion.

[leveymg]

4. They made a movie about that in the 1950s.

"The H-Man: Beauty and the Liquid Man" (Japan, 1958). Plot: When a narcotics deal goes sour and a suspect disappears, leaving only his clothes, Tokyo police question his wife and stake out the nightclub where she works. His disappearance stumps the police – until a young scientist appears who claims that H-Bomb tests in the Pacific, evidenced by a “ghost ship” that has turned up in the harbor, crewed by radioactive creatures – “H-Men” – made of florescent blue slime and dissolve anyone they touch then retreat into the Tokyo sewers to attack again.

Mobsters. Dancing girls. Radioactive mutants. This film had it all except a highly corrupt government and nuclear power industry.

[sce56]

5. That is some real HOT SHIT!

[izquierdista]

6. Big hole in the ground

Coal mine? Potash mine? Some other deep hardrock mine that's been played out? Even a limestone or granite quarry that's good and deep and could be covered with a few feet of overburden would be better than letting it sit in a hallway with a tarp over it.

This is one of those instances where no decision is worse than either a good or bad decision. BURY IT NOW!

[DeSwiss]

7. This is just the radioactive.....

...material coming via the sewerage/drainage system. It does not address all the radioactive particles that lie all over the landscape and continues to be spread everywhere because there are still THREE REACTORS IN MELT-THROUGH, along with THREE COOLING PONDS WITH 20 YEARS WORTH OF SPENT FUEL RODS. Both of which are spewing nuclear materials into the air and into the ground water. Neither of which can be controlled nor repaired since the radioactivity levels are too high for human exposure for much more than 15 minutes or so.

I believe in the end that this area will have to be abandoned, however, unlike the Russians who have a much larger country the Japanese appear hard-pressed to give up so much land of their much smaller island chain. But I don't see they have much choice.

- Small countries with nuclear reactors take heed.....

[izquierdista]

8. Gonna need a bigger hole

(Wasn't that what the boat captain said in 'JAWS'?)

As for what needs to be put at the site of the nuke plant, the plans for that have been around for a long time:

[pam4water]

9. I dozen plants will radio active sewage D: