Tepco to build sarcophagus over Fukushima reactor

www.telegraph.co.uk...

Has a picture of the sacophagus they are planning to build

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reply to post by Fasttwitch


Isn't this thing bleeding radiation into the ground water?

Welcome to Chernobyl Part 2

So instead of fixing this mess ,they have been busy contracting designers to make it all good again,
Looks nice anyway ,sort of like a tombstone with the words "we really *snip* up this time" engraved into it

Originally posted by 12voltz
Looks nice anyway ,sort of like a tombstone with the words "we really F##ked up this time" engraved into it

It's no tombstone, it's only a fancy tent which is temporary. They probably won't even start on the "tombstone" until a couple of years from now.

And yeah this will only have a limited effect on protecting groundwater because it will stop rain from entering the reactor. But plenty of rain will fall outside the tent and contaminate the groundwater just by seeping through the radioactive soil in the area, not to mention we don't even know if the melted core has reached groundwater.

And I was hoping that it would have a golden face-plate with arms crossed like in Egyptian sarcophagi. With all the radiation that's leaked out, it wouldn't be entirely inappropriate.

Originally posted by Unvarnished
Welcome to Chernobyl Part 2

Actually, it's Three Mile Island, Part 3.

Chernobyl was Three Mile Island, Part 2.

Cool, glad we've capped the top.
Now, what are we going to do about underneath?

Ok, did I read that right? This is to temporarily cover ONE reactor??? It'a a weak cover at that, and it's only going to cover ONE??????

Originally posted by babybunnies
Chernobyl was Three Mile Island, Part 2.

You're seriously comparing an accident that killed hundreds of people to an accident that killed nobody?

Originally posted by Nosred
You're seriously comparing an accident that killed hundreds of people to an accident that killed nobody?

If you just compare the number of people killed, there's a difference.

But if you compare what happened in Chernobyl and Three Mile island, they are both cases where human error caused a reactor to go out of control and have some similarities in that respect. Three mile island was very close to ending up much worse than it did.

within a hundred-mile radius of the plant you have Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, DC....[We] were that close to a disaster of almost unimaginable proportions."...
"The core could have turned into a molten white-hot mass, could have gone through the concrete base of the plant and into ground water which is immediately below the foundation of the plant, could have fractured the earth instantly in all directions and geysers of radioactive steam would have spouted, into the air, through the parking lots and a cloud of death would have wafted north over the City of Harrisburg."

Roger Mattson, NRC Senior Engineer at the time, said of the accident, "We had a meltdown at Three Mile Island. It was not the China Syndrome, but we melted the core down. Fifty percent of the core was destroyed or molten and something on the order of 20 tons of uranium found its way, by flowing in a molten state, to the bottom head of the pressure vessel. That's a core melt-down. No question about it."

I think you should compare them based on more than the number of people killed, but instead on how serious the accident was and how many people were almost killed should be considered as well.

Take the Aviation industry for example. They do compare "near-miss" incidents to actual collisions, where the difference between them is that the planes were separated by a short distance in the near miss. The fact that nobody died doesn't stop them from comparing the failures in safety systems that allowed both incidents to come so close to total disaster, and there's little doubt that three mile island came very close to total meltdown.

Kaku told them to do this the same week as the earthquake. WTF were they waiting for? Magic anti-radiation fairy dust?

Dumb. I used to think the Japanese were intelligent.

3 mile island? 3 nuclear disasters? Do you guys know that the number 3 is symbolic in Freeasonry? Both the sarcophagus designs look exactly like Egyptian sarcophaguses. Didn't Freemasonry originate in Egpyt?

Do you guys remember when this video was noticed and posted on here after the tsunami hit Japan? www.youtube.com...

Thisnews release is propaganda. It was put out there to appease the scared people. They CANNOT cover the thing up for at least a year. Entombing a meltdown will essentially create an oven, causing the meltdown to accelerate.

They have to figure out how to cool it down, first, which is highly unlikely.

Originally posted by Nosred

Originally posted by babybunnies
Chernobyl was Three Mile Island, Part 2.

You're seriously comparing an accident that killed hundreds of people to an accident that killed nobody?

People Died at Three Mile Island

www.commondreams.org...

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Some 2400 area residents have long-since filed a class action lawsuit demanding compensation for the plague of death and disease visited upon their families. In the past quarter-century they have been denied access to the federal court system, which claims there was not enough radiation released to do such harm. TMI's owners did quietly pay out millions in damages to area residents whose children were born with genetic damage, among other things. The payments came in exchange for silence among those receiving them.
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hummm. I'd say that "officially" no one died (immediately) ... and that doesn't mean that no one did later and that no one will in the future. The long lived radioactive elements aren't gone, they bioaccumulate, and very few cancers/leukemias/heart diseases/MS and other symptoms come with a "MADE IN TMI/CHERNOBYL/FUKUSHIMA" stamp.

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just the increase in still borns in the US west coast since the fallout hit makes your statement absurd no?
www.counterpunch.org...
acehoffman.blogspot.com...
enenews.com...

reply to post by Danbones


I was talking about Three Mile Island.

Originally posted by Nosred
reply to post by Danbones

 

I was talking about Three Mile Island.

pardon me

they figure the death rate fron chernobyl is a million
your post seems rather ambigious...

NEW YORK, New York, April 26, 2010 (ENS) - Nearly one million people around the world died from exposure to radiation released by the 1986 nuclear disaster at the Chernobyl reactor, finds a new book from the New York Academy of Sciences published today on the 24th anniversary of the meltdown at the Soviet facility.

www.ens-newswire.com...

After reading all of the last 4 months of news updates on the Fukushima disaster before I posted them on Cybermacro, the reactor covering that TEPCO is starting to build is not what any nuclear professional is seriously calling a sarcophagus, more of a pup tent (plasticized fabric) over a rigid metal frame. True, it will contain the airborne alpha particles, and some of the airborne beta particles. It won't do a thing to slow down airborne gamma. Perhaps its greatest value will be to divert rainwater away from the broken reactor walls and roofs. Oh, wait: It's typhoon season now, and one direct hit will either cause the pup tents to sail away, or shred the fabric into innumerable (radioactive) pieces, or both.

Independent nuclear engineers and independent nuclear physicists currently estimate that the reactor fluids will stop boiling a year from now. At that time. the building of a sarcophagus would become feasible, but not until then.

Here is a link to the current Cybermacro thread on airborne radiation in/from Fukushima:

www.cybermacro.com...

reply to post by Uphill


I suspect the real purpose is to prevent people from seeing in more than it is to prevent what might be getting out.