Wait a minute - don't you think they might be a little hasty, here?
Posted on 03/20/2011 7:13:04 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Fukushima Nuclear Plant To Be Decommissioned: Govt
TOKYO (Kyodo)--The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in no condition to restart and is most likely to be decommissioned as it has caused many critical problems since a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit northeastern Japan on March 11, the top government spokesman suggested Sunday.
''Looking at the situation objectively, (the answer to the question of) whether it can be operated again is clear,'' Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said at a news conference, when asked whether the government plans to close the plant once its overheating reactors are brought under control.
It is the first time that a senior government official has mentioned about the likelihood of it being decommissioned.
(Excerpt) Read more at e.nikkei.com ...
So Japan will have new landmarks: six huge concrete monuments of entombed reactors.
The seawater injections alone foretold that one. Though 5 and 6 were not pumped with seawater if memory serves.
The nuclear physicist I know told me that as soon as they did that, the resale value went to zero. Let alone the physical damage...
They’ll be replaced with modern reactors, probably thorium, and probably on higher ground.
Those Japanese... they are so inscrutable.
Though it seems rather obvious that they should not only be decommissioned but should be condemned, it’s just the last thing that would be of concern right now.
I suspect that they will junk the whole place.
And six new coal/natural gas fired power plants to take their place.
Weren’t they going to dismantle the plant anyway because the reactors were getting old to start with? They may keep the two newest reactors, though.
Time for the USA to start construction of a couple large LNG export terminals and sign some long term contracts with Japan for natural gas to fuel the replacement generating stations.
Or even smarter would be construction of a few large scale Fischer–Tropsch process facilities local to large natural gas production fields and export it as a liquid, as well as supplement our countries diesel fuel supply with it.
24 The president of France's nuclear safety authority says that this crisis is now almost as bad as Chernobyl was ....
"It's clear we are at Level 6, that's to say we're at a level in between what happened at Three Mile Island and Chernobyl."
But that item is only # 24. Please read the other three.
I'm still shaking my head about 600,000 spent fuel rods stored without containment . . .
Thanks.
Lord, have mercy.
Procrastination! Procrastination! Had the plant been decommisioned when it was originally supposed to half their problems would have disappeared.
We already have 2 LNG terminals in Gulf Coast ports (I can't remember which cities). The US imports LNG from Trinidad and Tobago...but it only represents 1% or 2% of what we consume. If not for hydraulic fracturing we would be importing much more LNG by now.
Wait a minute - don't you think they might be a little hasty, here?
That was known soon as seawater went in.
Ping to Steve and Mom. :^)
I suggest you don't inquire about the quantity of used fuel assemblies in the spent fuel pools at the US plants, courtesy of Dingy Harry and the rest of the luddites.
“The seawater injections alone foretold that one. Though 5 and 6 were not pumped with seawater if memory serves.”
That’s right, 2 or 3 of the reactors are servicable, 5 and 6 had no damage, so if they are shutting them all down and not just the damaged ones its a political decision and not a technical one.
If seawater is really that deadly, its a travesty that they (or we) couldnt airlift the distilled water they needed in the first 48 hours when they needed it.
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