Posted on 10/11/2011 9:17:29 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Estimated 13,000 square km eligible for decontamination
The central government will be responsible for decontaminating about 13,000 square kilometers across eight prefecture, or about 3 percent of Japan's total landmass, under new standards for cleaning up radiation from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, according to Asahi Shimbun estimates.
The Environment Ministry on Oct. 10 endorsed a basic policy to make the government responsible for decontaminating all areas with radiation levels exceeding 1 millisievert per year.
Based on an earlier annual threshold of 5 millisieverts, the ministry initially said about 1,800 square km of land in Fukushima Prefecture would be subject to decontamination. But under the new standard, the size of the area will grow sevenfold.
Using airborne radiation measurements by the science ministry, the Environment Ministry drew up maps of regions where additional exposure to radiation due to the nuclear accident lies between 1 and 5 millisieverts annually.
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Ok, that sounds good but actually getting it done might not be so easy. Where are they going to put the soil? They can’t burn it because of the fumes. They can’t dump it into the ocean because it’d contaminate the fishing. They can’t put it all in barrels because barrels eventually leak and where are they going to store them? Three percent is a lot of area to clean up and that’s not even getting into where the wind and water carried it. But that’s ok, if they’re anything like this administration, they’ll just go in and readjust the numbers.
Here’s an idea, they can move those free vacations they’re thinking of giving out over to hiring all those Occupy Wall Street protesters who obviously need something to do with their time (well, the ones who aren’t getting a paycheck to protest).
Holy crap. Percentage-wise, this would be the equivalent of us having to decontaminate the entire state of Nevada. Every square mile.
This all leads to only one solution: dumping into Mariana Trench. LOL.
Can this be correct?
So many ‘Freepers’ were daily saying there was no danger. And that the people making posts on this site were just ‘stupid’ didn’t have engineering degree’s etc...
Accusing people of discussing it of being ‘fear mongers’ etc..
personal attacks, name calling etc.
Or have NASA deliver it to the next near passage of an astroid. Oh, never mind, NASA’s funding has been pulled.
Actually, bgill, Japan has authorized the burning of radioactive sludge and this is contaminating residential areas even more. When very highly radioactive sludge is found, they just mix it with less radioactive sludge to bring the average per kg down and then burn it all anyway - sending into the air to contaminate again.
They have already contaminated the fishing and continue to do so.
In some areas they have the parents and school children scrape up the first few cm of contaminated playground soil but they have no place to put it so they build a mound and put a tarp over it on school grounds. All these alternatives - all they have to do is choose from them for their 3% contamination solution.
Well, the Japanese government has a lot of experience right now on soil decontamination, since the plains around Sendai must be cleaned from the salt left by the tsunami, otherwise they could not be used again for crop growing in some years.
They take a couple centimeter of top soil off, and bury it 50 centimeters down or more (on site) in big rubber tubs.
In one example using this method they drop the radiation from 4.13 to .13 microsieverts.
Japan did experiments decontaminating rice paddies too. They put coagulant and take 3 centimeter off the top away. Add water and stir up soil below. They said the experiment was a success and they’re going to do it more
Also there is a method where they reclaim 90% of the decontaminated soil to reuse it again, involving clay soil, water, and cement mixers
Yes, I knew all that. Should have put a /s on my post.
No need to put a sarc tag on your post - it is, in hindsight, obvious! Sorry for the misread!
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