Fukushima nuclear plant work behind schedule

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Source: Jiji Press

Work to decommission Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.’s Fukushima No. 1 power plant has not progressed smoothly, six years after the nuclear disaster began following a 9.0-magnitude earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.

In particular, measures to deal with radioactive water, which topped 1.02 million tons early this month, have been delayed.

Observers fear that decommissioning costs may even exceed the current projection of ¥8 trillion, which surprised many when announced last December because it was four times the previous estimate.

Some of the costs are already passed on to consumers. TEPCO started to charge for related costs in September 2012, when it raised power rates.

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[PearliePoo2]

1. It's the eternal FUBAR that "Keeps on Giving"...with NO 'fix" in sight.

They can't contain all the water that's running off the mountainside behind this mess either. There will NEVER be enough tanks to hold it all. The fuckers are releasing this contaminated shit right into the Pacific and will continue to do so.
And...remember, the Japanese turned down the help of other nations when this catastrophe first happened.

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2. How about the climate change schedule? Any progress on cleaning up the..

...planetary atmosphere?

Any progress on paying the health care costs for the seven million people who die each year from air pollution, the losses to their families, this while people prattle on about Fukushima?

Don't give a rat's ass? Rather run a gas powered computer to carry on about Fukushima?

How many people died from radiation at Fukushima again?

If we spend a trillion dollars cleaning up Fukushima to satisfy the scientific illiteracy of every scientifically illiterate nutcase who insists that every atom of cesium - 137 is a death sentence, how many lives will be saved by that trillion dollars?

As many as if we gave a shit about the 2 billion people on this planet who have no access to sanitation, and spent two hundred million dollars on sewage treatment plants where there are none?

The planet is dying from dangerous fossil fuel waste while bourgeois idiots sit on their asses worrying about Fukushima.

I note, with due contempt that they have nothing to say about banning coastal cities even though 270,000 people died from tsunamis between 2004 and 2014.