The crisis at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan is not getting any better, it has just dropped from the front pages of the newspapers over the years since the accident originally occurred. It remains the worst nuclear catastrophe since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. Estimates now predict that it will take 40 years and $300 billion to finally clean this up.
Given the nature of nuclear radiation, cleaning up after an accident is neither easy nor optional. The radioactive fuel remains lethal for hundreds or thousands of years making the containment of the sources of that radioactivity imperative. At the same time, that deadly radiation makes clean-up work extremely difficult. With 300 tons of radioactive water per day being dumped into the Pacific ocean, small amounts of which having already been detected in the ocean in California, this is a catastrophe of unimaginable proportions. More on page two.
The Chernobyl reactor was encased in concrete.
They have had to redo it.
Because the radiation inside is so ungodly, it ate up the concrete. They’ve put a new structure over the reactor now. It looks like an airplane hanger.
We’ll see how long that one lasts.
not one thing on the news and why nothing from or government
We are so screwed
And it’s coming to america . This the most dangerous kind of energy .
I see where it is in the Salmon too.
This is sad and it’s killing the ocean off . It’s already here it’s just the media is silent .The media is more worried about controlling the reality show from the election and our new president . Everyone is all worried about the environment with emissions yet this is one of the worst disasters in history kept silent . If we don’t become radioactive we will run out of air since the oceans give us most of our air .
Watch out West Coast.
Yea no kidding and also stop eating Sushi and tuna .
Gloria Pegler don’t forget the mid-west
Ah, but isn’t this what happens when greed driven American engineers are allowed to oversight and build nuclear facilities in the most earthquake prone and populace regain on earth? I’m surprised Japan fell for it. Especially considering there are far older and much more full proof designs for said being totally ignored. One in particular, the liquid metal core system that automatically shuts itself down. Oh, but how that money talks…. and greases palms, and gets people killed…..