To Dump or Not to Dump, that is the question! Full broadcast available here http://tinyurl.com/lz9qnl2 A Thought Provoking interview, to say the least. If you are up to the minute on the Fukushima Crisis completely, skip to approx. 15:00 or so, to begin. The first 15 minutes are just to catch people up to speed on the current conditions. The last half hour is a talk about dumping this "less radioactive" water into the pacific ocean to get at the more pressing issues. A real mind warp... David McNeill, reports for The Economist and The Independent. Co-author of "Strong in the Rain: Surviving Japan's Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Nuclear Disaster." Yoichi Funabashi, chairman of the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation. Program director of the "Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident." A former editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun, the second-largest newspaper in Japan. Per Peterson, chair of the department of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley. Ken Buesseler, senior scientist in marine chemistry and geochemistry at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute. He has been studying radioactive contamination in the Pacific Ocean and its fish stocks. UC Berkeley Nuclear Professor: Work to go on for thousands of years at Fukushima site if they can't retrieve melted fuel (AUDIO) Title: Radiation And Risks At Fukushima Source: On Point with Tom Ashbrook (NPR) Date: Sept. 3, 2013 At 17:00 in Per Peterson, chair of the department of nuclear engineering at UC Berkeley:The primary containment vessel, it's being left submerged in salty water and is corroding. So by not making prudent decisions today about what water must be discharged and what water can be safely discharged and instead just storing it all, the risk is it will make it in the longer term much less likely that it will be possible to get the damaged fuel out. And so by misdirecting a lot of the effort to do things that don't reduce risk significantly, they're creating in Japan a much larger probability that in the end it will not be possible to get the damaged fuel out, and they will have to manage those plants at that site for millennia going into the future. Tom Ashbrook, Host: Millennia, that means thousands of years. [...] Peterson: You want to be trying to flush out all of that salt that was injected into these reactors, which right now is contributing to the corrosion of these primary containment vessels, that if they don't survive it will become challenging or impossible to get the damaged fuel out. BBC News: Fukushima nuclear plant still 'unstable', regulator says -- "The crisis at Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant 'has not ended', the country's nuclear watchdog has warned, saying the situation there is 'unstable'. Watchdog chief Shunichi Tanaka also accused the plan's operator of careless management during the crisis." http://tinyurl.com/oneuubk CNN: Fukushima radiation levels spike, company says -- "There's been a sharp spike in radiation levels measured in the pipes and containers holding water at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant in Japan. But the company in charge of cleaning it up says that only a single drop of the highly contaminated water escaped the holding tanks." http://tinyurl.com/ks3vhlw Bloomberg: Fukushima Fishermen Ruined by Tepco Now Key in Toxic Fight -- "Tokyo Electric Power Co. (9501) ruined the livelihoods of the commercial fishermen who trawled the seas off Fukushima prefecture when its leaking reactors poisoned the fishing grounds. The utility now needs their help." http://tinyurl.com/o9ep76j

• published: 05 Sep 2013
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