Yeah your right: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24550492
It's crazy that comparatively so little has been done to stabilize and entomb that site; considering the ultimate consequences should any number of the structures fail. A case of misplaced priorities that unfortunately could become a civilization ending event. At this point entombing the whole thing seems to be the only option - don't think anybody has the tech to handle a hot mass of corium melt. I would estimate that entombing Fukushima will cost many trillions of dollars over hundreds and hundreds - if not hundreds of thousands of years. But that is chump change compared to the cost of doing nothing. As you noted large once in a hundred year weather events are going to most likely become more common as the planet roils in shedding heat out into space. That place is hell on earth. In one of the reactor buildings - I forget which even the best radiation hardened robots we have only last a few minutes before the intense gamma ray flux literally fries them and the telemetry they can gather is of extremely poor quality due the intense gamma ray emissions in that area. I think all we can do at this point is to entomb - at massive cost - and contain this hell from the rest of the planet. This is one of those problems that is so horrible that no one wants to deal with it or think about it; preferring almost anything to this activity. Nobody wants to own this. Fukushima is like an orphan child and the Japanese government would love it to just go away and let it focus instead on important things like preparing for the Olympics. the insanity of the apparent priorities is truly rich, but also potentially tragic for all of humankind. I am unimpressed with Japan's efforts and ability to manage this disaster and am concerned that they have been in a reactive mode and are flailing around and trying to pretend that they can focus on other things - like the Olympics. How many close calls will Fukushima survive before it can finally be stabilized? From: everything-list@googlegroups.com [mailto:everything-list@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of LizR Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 6:30 PM To: everything-list@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: Current events I think it has either arrived or missed by now, it was due to make landfall on Wednesday, I think. Wikipedia states 17 people killed and 50 missing, unfortunately. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/15/us-japan-typhoon-idUSBRE99E09H2013 1015 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to everything-list+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to everything-list@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
