The Fukishima disaster is the gift that just keeps on
giving. Plan on eating? Like seafood?
You may reconsider after looking at this site:
Think you're safe if you don't eat seafood because you live
in the Midwest?:
Here are the important questions at this point as I see
them:
1. Why haven't the
world's governments and the U.N. put TREMENDOUS pressure on the Japanese
government to deal effectively with this mess?
2. Why wasn't the
s.o.b. 'Chernobyl-ed' at the very BEGINNING of this? The Soviet Union had a similar but MUCH less
serious situation occur at Chernobyl
in 1986. It used a low-tech, simple
solution: dump a butt-load of lime on
top of the thing and then dump a butt-load of concrete on top of that,
effectively entombing it. This is not a
permanent solution, but it gives the mess time to cool down (say, 200 years!)
and gives US time to come up with a more long-lasting or even (pray) PERMANENT fix. Oh, NOW, I'm told, we CAN'T use that SIMPLE
solution because, due to the damage done inside reactor number 3, there is now
FRESH water leaking INTO the plant underground as well as salt water, both of
which are now exiting the plant into the Pacific Ocean
RADIOACTIVE. The 'Chernobyl' solution PERHAPS could still be
used but concrete used to bury the mess would have to be of a type which sets
(hardens) in salt and brackish (fresh water which has a low level of salt in
it) water. I don't know if such a
concrete exists. Do you?
The following are simply things that I've heard and seen
through my sources (primarily, at least, "Coast-to-coast AM") It seems, according to "Coast",
that one reason the Japanese government isn't eager to bury the whole mess is
because they've been storing plutonium at that site. Plutonium, as you may know, is usable in
making nuclear weapons, which for Japan would be against treaty. Why would Japan, a nation which has foresworn offensive military capability, want nuclear-weapons-grade materiel? I can think of two reasons and they're right
in Japan's
neighborhood. In fact, Japan is having
trouble with ONE of them RIGHT NOW!!
Those two reasons are, in order:
1. China
2. Russia (with whom Japan has a historically
contentious relationship)
Kind of brings back those old "Cold War"
feelings! And the ol' friendly glowing
stuff is getting into our water and the food chain too!! Gives me a little warm tickle right . . HERE!
Or is that RADIATION? SWEET
DREAMS!
Oh, and here's the latest, folks! Japan is considering restarting its
nuclear reactors! This reminds me of the
old song lyric: "When will they
ever learn? When will they ever
learn?"
Please note that though the above-linked article in my
opinion shows a bias toward nuclear power
I am in no way in favor of nuclear power.
One reason for this is that human nature can never be discounted in any human endeavor. This includes the temptation of a contractor
or subcontractor to use substandard materiel or practices in the construction
of any project, including nuclear
power plants.
