How long will it take to stabilize Fukushima? #2

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Poll question: How long will it take to stabilize Fukushima? #2

Same criteria as the one a few weeks ago with a larger spread.

Definition of stable for this poll:

A) Cracked/damaged/leaking reactor vessels removed or entombed
B) Melted/partially melted spent fuel rods moved to a new pool, or other remediation
C) Undamaged vessels operating within specs, without the use of backup systems

[Trajan]

1. One TRILLION years ....

[barbtries]

2. i'm an optimist

said 1 to 4 years. the real question though is how long will the fallout from this disaster continue to affect the environment? considerably longer, i believe.

[Lost-in-FL]

3. >100 years perhaps thousands of years longer.

If it is worse than Chernobyl, as everything is pointing out to be, even if people did not receive a lethal dose of radiation and lived in the vicinity of the plants, both genetic and epigenetic effects would carry on and even outlast the radiation effects done to the environment, or even the decomposition or half life of the isotopes. That of course, if they are able to reproduce at all, "healthy" babies that could live past reproductive age without dying of a radiation induced condition due to mutations. Of course, I am not a genetic expert.

[Fledermaus]

4. Chernobyl is at 25 years and counting. It needs a new sarcophagus or it will start contaminating

the environment again!........100++ years.

[PDittie]

5. How about

a thousand years?

[AtheistCrusader]

6. stabilize?

less than a year, and will probably involve entombing the lower quarter of the containment vessel, due to the damage to the Suppression Pool. That will more or less cork the leak, so they can get in there and work on the damn thing.