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In reply to the discussion: Japan postpones removal of Fukushima atomic fuel rods [View all]jtuck004
(15,882 posts)32. It is so hot and mangled there is no protection that allows for it. Workers are
being told that they have less than an hour inside the building for a lethal dose with the best protection there is, from what I was reading before. And the real problems are hidden under tangles of pipes with the hot material inside, and all that covers the hottest area where the corium is.
They are building some robots in a couple of places designed to help, but even those are having to be engineered.
And if they move the fuel rods in the wrong way, rods that are all crumpled together like smashed cigarettes in a pack, and break them open to expose the fuel to another, it could start a reaction which produces a nuclear fire that begins to rain radiation down on everything and through the air, a fire they may not be able to extinguish.
And the same thing could happen with the next big earthquake. So it's not like we can wait forever.
It sure seems like it need a bigger international response at this point.
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It sure has been a nice ride. Wish it wasn't going to get much, much worse.
silvershadow
Nov 2013
#3
When Hell freezes over. Billionaires must become trillionaires, after all, the planet be damned! nt
valerief
Nov 2013
#25
Who's running this? Satan? End timers? FFS, fix and or bury the accursed thing. It's not theirs now.
freshwest
Nov 2013
#5
Not sure that bury is even an option any longer - and the water supply for 40 million
jtuck004
Nov 2013
#6
The nuke industry has been trying to figure out what to do with nuke waste for 60 years...
Tikki
Nov 2013
#29
It is so hot and mangled there is no protection that allows for it. Workers are
jtuck004
Nov 2013
#32
Its much worse than you think. The contaimated water thats flowing into the ocean is being
Katashi_itto
Nov 2013
#9
Why would the fishing industry be hurt? It's not like we have controls in place
valerief
Nov 2013
#14
The crane operators who'll be lifting the rods out won't be wasting the downtime
JohnyCanuck
Nov 2013
#16
Since no one answered you Stranger, here are a couple of links that answer your question
Hestia
Nov 2013
#37
The horrific effects of this nuclear disaster in Japan will, by far, surpass the destruction caused
Lodestar
Nov 2013
#34
So you have links to how many people have been killed by Fukushima ... I do ...
MindMover
Nov 2013
#57