Fukushima Disaster -- Why Is It So Hard To Clean Up

Fukushima "Walk Away for 100 Years" w/ Arnie Gundersen




Fukushima Daiichi Why Is It So Hard To Clean Up
There’s about 100 tons of molten nuclear fuel underneath the nuclear reactor in Chernobyl. This brings me to the reason for this video. There are huge differences between the dismantlement of Fukushima and the dismantlement of even something as bad as Chernobyl. And the difference is the groundwater. At Chernobyl, the groundwater never got in and got in direct contact with the nuclear fuel; whereas at Daiichi, the nuclear fuel is in contact with the groundwater because the groundwater has leaked into the bottom of the containment building and it’s gotten into other buildings that surround the containment. That makes Fukushima Daiichi must more expensive to solve and much more difficult to contain. The key is to keep the water out. And I’ve been saying this for 30 months now. The solution is not to pump water out of the containment, but to prevent the water from going in. What we need is an underground wall. Just like the sarcophagus covers the top of Chernobyl, we need an underground sarcophagus to prevent the groundwater from entering Fukushima reactors. I think once that’s accomplished, there’s no need to decommission these power plants and turn them back to the ground they are in. And the reason for that is that exposure to young, brave Japanese workers is going to be way to high for almost 100 years. Because of the explosions and because of the fact that the groundwater has moved parts of the nuclear fuel out into surrounding buildings, the risk to the workers is way too high. It’s time to contain the groundwater, cover up that site and walk away for 100 years. The Japanese government doesn’t want that to happen because they want their population to think that this is a solvable problem. It isn’t. The best thing for the Japanese to do is to admit that they’re going to have to live with radioactive rubble at the Fukushima site for over 100 years.




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