Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Peter Lemkin]

::willynilly::::

Most responsible nuclear scientists feel the above 'estimate' of the clean-up is off by about 5X the price. It would take at least 30-40 years at current estimates...and given the increase by 736% in radiation in just over a year...we do NOT have much more time!!!!....Tepco will go kaboom...along with a lot of that part of Japan and I'm afraid a lot more cancers all over the World. ONLY immediate dismantling of the plant [costing an unbelievably huge sum of money ~ a trillion dollars or so] could possibly save things now..IMHO. Even if the money and will to do so were forthcoming [they are not], the engineering solution to this is unknown [no one really knows how to remove molten nuclear fuel in a safe manner - its temperature alone makes it almost impossible to handle or move] - and such engineering solutions would have to be quickly invented....not to mention, the disposal location for this material would be where?.... They have created a monster that grows stronger and more dangerous by the minute. Not hearing about it has not reduced the problem...in fact, it has increased in the subsequent 'silence'. Sadly, some Japanese have moved back into the communities near the plant [based on the lies by Tepco that things were under control and 'cooling down'. They were heating up and getting more dangerous - but the worst is yet to come! There is NO way this material will of its own accord cool and become less radioactive - quite the opposite. When the pools of molten core from one reactor mix with those of one [two, three, four, five...] others things will get very 'interesting' indeed. This now seems somewhat inevitable.....

....even a specially designed 'radiation-proof' robot is expected to only survive two hours working near [not with] the melted nuclear fuel....humans can't even get anywhere near...and robots that 'die' in two hours [of the radiation, not the heat] just won't work for moving the contents nor dismantling the buildings and containment vessels, etc. [as they'd have to survive a LOT longer AND the heat of molten metal, as well!] Nothing I know of can 'dilute' or 'negate' the radiation - only temporarily shield some of it.] A 'China syndrome' might be the least horrible result - but it could get stopped partway down into the Earth in a groundwater layer and pollute the groundwater of a huge area [and the sea] basically forever. The outlook is NOT good, and Tepco has NO control over what is happening no matter what they are saying. [Add to that, what they - and much of the other pro-nuclear people - have been saying is basically a big lie to comfort everyone.]

Summary: Things at Fukishima are worse than they have ever been - never has it been so dangerous and unstable; and it is getting worse!...and will continue to get worse for the foreseeable long future! No known plan will work at this point - and none is even being discussed; this despite the need to do SOMETHING major immediately!