They need to start relocating the used fuel rods if they haven’t already to some remote island for storage.
Then they need to slowly dismantle the whole damned thing using a combination of robots and terminally ill volunteers to get as many exploded fuel elements out of there as they can.
Then Japan needs to invest in thorium reactors so they can burn the damn high level fissile material down to inert nuclear ash.
But they really need to take one of their remote islands and create long term used fuel rod storage facility.
TEPCO needs to be nationalized. I know I am going to get a lot of flack from FReepers for saying that, but there has been far too much hanky-panky, ass-covering, mealy-mouthed bull feces from these people for me to trust them in this situation.
I want the Japanese government to pry those damn reactors out of TEPCOs incompetent fingers then I want an international commission of the world’s finest nuclear scientists and engineers brought in, given full and complete access to all the data, and a solid, workable engineering plan developed to deal with this crisis, which is arguably a worldwide concern.
I live less than 150 km from these reactors. I pay a TEPCO bill every month and have seen my electricity prices jump between 25 and 40 percent from the same time last year, and I am NOT HAPPY WITH THESE PEOPLE!!!
There is a superb French/Japanese produced documentary (with English narration) that has been blacklisted in most of the world,
No Man’s Zone: Fukushima - The Day After
Full documentary available here :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX11BTV4-NU
Information
A man wanders through the 20-kilometre exclusion zone around the stricken nuclear reactors at Fukushima. The cherry trees are in bloom and the natural surroundings make an idyllic impression. Radiation is invisible, yet a gaping emptiness looms where the tsunami engulfed streets and houses. The man is wearing normal clothing, just like the people still toughing it out here, for the time being at least. He occasionally encounters white “ghosts” in protective clothing, performing strange tasks. The zone in Fujiwara Toshi’s NO MAN’S ZONE is both a place and a mental state. A gradual disintegration began long before the destruction and devastation, a process defied for the most part by the old people our “Stalker” encounters. A voice accompanies the filmmaker’s wanderings, that of Armenian-Canadian actress Arsinée Khanjian, a voice from a place of exile, unfamiliar and sympathetic. NO MAN’S ZONE is a complex reflection on the relationship between images and fears, on being addicted to the apocalypse, on the ravaged relationship between man and nature. For the zone to be decontaminated and returned to the people, nature itself will have to undergo an amputation. Produced by Aliocha Films Tokyo and Denis Friedman Productions Paris.