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Related: About this forumThings that make you go "Hmmm" : Plan to N-shrine reactors for millennia
Plan to N-shrine reactors for millennia
By EDAN CORKILL
Staff writer
What do nuclear power plants and Shinto shrines have in common?
Long-term plan: Architect Katsuhiro Miyamoto's novel means of safely mothballing the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and the highly radioactive fuel likely to remain there even after the current crisis is resolved, is to turn it into a Shinto shrine seen here in a model and a computer rendering. KATSUHIRO MIYAMOTO
For a start, they tend to be hidden from view the former in remote coastal locations, the latter behind stands of trees or atop hills or mountains. They are also sources of untold energy one electrical, the other spiritual.
And if a reactor at a nuclear power plant melts down, another similarity emerges: They are expected to be preserved for thousands of years.
It is this latter similarity that sparked the imagination of Hyogo Prefecture-based architect Katsuhiro Miyamoto, who has recently made an extraordinary proposition about what to do with the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which suffered three reactor meltdowns following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.
The 51-year-old who, in 1996, represented Japan at the "Olympics of architecture" as the Venice Biennale is known has suggested erecting giant shrine-style thatched roofs over each of the crippled reactor buildings and so creating what he dubs "The Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant Shrine." This, he tells The Japan Times, will "pacify a malevolent god."
As yet, no long-term strategy for ...
By EDAN CORKILL
Staff writer
What do nuclear power plants and Shinto shrines have in common?
Long-term plan: Architect Katsuhiro Miyamoto's novel means of safely mothballing the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, and the highly radioactive fuel likely to remain there even after the current crisis is resolved, is to turn it into a Shinto shrine seen here in a model and a computer rendering. KATSUHIRO MIYAMOTO
For a start, they tend to be hidden from view the former in remote coastal locations, the latter behind stands of trees or atop hills or mountains. They are also sources of untold energy one electrical, the other spiritual.
And if a reactor at a nuclear power plant melts down, another similarity emerges: They are expected to be preserved for thousands of years.
It is this latter similarity that sparked the imagination of Hyogo Prefecture-based architect Katsuhiro Miyamoto, who has recently made an extraordinary proposition about what to do with the stricken Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, which suffered three reactor meltdowns following the Great East Japan Earthquake on March 11, 2011.
The 51-year-old who, in 1996, represented Japan at the "Olympics of architecture" as the Venice Biennale is known has suggested erecting giant shrine-style thatched roofs over each of the crippled reactor buildings and so creating what he dubs "The Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant Shrine." This, he tells The Japan Times, will "pacify a malevolent god."
As yet, no long-term strategy for ...
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Things that make you go "Hmmm" : Plan to N-shrine reactors for millennia (Original Post)
kristopher
Mar 2012
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MindMover
(5,016 posts)1. Bulldozed down and buried under 15 feet of concrete......
seems to be the consensus.....not necessarily the best...but it is the best today......
leveymg
(36,418 posts)2. Problem is seepage into the water table. Will have to trench many meters underneath, and pour
concrete into a radioactively "hot" area that happens to also be under water. Good luck. Good night.
MindMover
(5,016 posts)3. crazy stuff.....but done before......actually this is the present method...
leveymg
(36,418 posts)4. Chernobyl wasn't built right on the oceanfront - the containment issue is very different
Sorry.