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PoliticAverse

(26,366 posts)
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:14 AM Jun 2012

Tepco Detects Record Radiation Levels At Fukushima

TOKYO -- Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501.TO), the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, said Wednesday record amounts of radiation had been detected in the basement of reactor No. 1, further hampering clean-up operations.

Tepco took samples from the basement after lowering a camera and surveying instruments through a drain hole in the basement ceiling.

Radiation levels above radioactive water in the basement reached up to 10,300 millisievert an hour, a dose that will kill humans within a short time after making them sick within minutes.

...

"Workers cannot enter the site and we must use robots for the demolition," said Tepco.


Read the whole article at: http://www.marketwatch.com/story/tepco-detects-record-radiation-levels-at-fukushima-2012-06-27-134855918

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madokie

(51,076 posts)
1. The government says it could cost over 14 billion dollars to clean up the site
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 05:49 AM
Jun 2012

I just watched the video at the link and thats what the reporter said. 14 billion. My question is who will pay for that? Did tepco make 14 billion dollars profit off this plant? If not then how can anyone say that nuclear is a sane approach to electrical production

Kolesar

(31,182 posts)
3. I expect that the profits disappeared in dividends and the public will have to pay for the clean up
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 06:57 AM
Jun 2012

And that story will be repeated in the USA

madokie

(51,076 posts)
7. You are a person after my heart
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:25 AM
Jun 2012

Never will splitting atoms be a smart, sane or intelligent way to boil water to make steam, never ever


Making bombs maybe if thats what one wants to do but other than that no.

chervilant

(8,267 posts)
8. From my early days as
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:48 AM
Jun 2012

an anti-nuke activist, I have a button that depicts a granny sitting in her rocker, knitting. Her purple yarn is 'unraveling' a row of ICBMs. The caption:

"If we can risk nuclear war, we can risk disarmament."

Sadly, a significant percentage of our population STILL blithely and blindly supports nukes, and nuclear energy.

flamingdem

(39,342 posts)
9. 14 Billion is nothing compared to the damage of the Spent Fuel Pools
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 09:49 AM
Jun 2012

and the rest of the nuclear materials being released in quantity into the environment.

That global damage is incalculable and it's still dicey if they can get things under control

madokie

(51,076 posts)
10. I know and I'm pissed about the whole thing
Fri Jun 29, 2012, 05:32 AM
Jun 2012

I've known since day one that using nuclear to generate our electric was insane, that shit like this is bound to happen. Its going to happen here in America too at some point and that point in time keeps getting closer as the nuck plants we have keep getting older.. Its not a matter of if its simply a matter of WHEN

 

Nihil

(13,508 posts)
11. And hey! You kids! Get OFF my lawn!
Mon Jul 2, 2012, 05:28 AM
Jul 2012


Not that you're wrong in what you say, just the way that it came across.


madokie

(51,076 posts)
12. My apologies for not being a better communicator, I never was good at that
Mon Jul 2, 2012, 07:19 AM
Jul 2012

Come pay me a visit in person and I'll show you where my strengths are. The things I create utilizing my mind and hands, feet sometime even.

PearliePoo2

(7,768 posts)
5. Tepco ...what's your plan B?
Thu Jun 28, 2012, 07:59 AM
Jun 2012

this is uncharted water. The technology hasn't been invented yet to deal with this catastrophe.

Here's a quote from the article:
Demolition of the three reactors, as well as the plant's No. 4 unit, is expected to take 40 years and will need the use of new technologies.
Gee...10,300 millisievert an hour...how many FUCKING bananas is that?

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