Posted on 11/17/2011 12:55:59 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Radiation-tainted sludge, ash continues to pile up at Yokohama treatment centers
Bags of ash are stored at the southern sludge treatment and recycling center, which is gradually running out of space.
YOKOHAMA -- Nearly six months have passed since sludge and ash contaminated with radioactive materials from the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant stopped being shipped from processing facilities here to cement manufacturers.
Two facilities in the city now hold over 5,500 metric tons of ash, and that figure continues to rise. The city is under pressure to find storage space and explain to residents how the ash will be buried, but no immediate solution to the problem is in sight.
At the beginning of this month, I visited the southern sludge treatment and recycling center in Yokohama's Kanazawa Ward, where some 4,000 tons of ash -- over 70 percent of the city's total -- is stored.
The 16,000 cubic meters or so of sludge that is produced at sewage plants in Yokohama each day is divided up equally and processed at the city's northern and southern treatment centers. The southern center previously handed incineration ash over to cement manufacturers, but after businesses stopped collecting the ash in mid-May due to the detection of radioactive materials, ash started piling up at the center.
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Its a shame, but will probably kill more citizens than our dropping the A bomb to end WW2.
Wow, the Japanese government and their crony capitalists have really fumbled this whole scene. I remember when MITI caused tingling leg syndrome among our own intelligentsia and their fellow travelers.
Look how it’s turning out.
The way things are shaping up, this is much worse.
All because some idiot engineer put the diesel generators in a pit that could be swamped by a tsunami (or any other kind of flood water situation).
There is plenty of incompetence and gross negligence to go around in that organization called “TEPCO,” the Japanese utility company which operates the power plant. Their gov is not far behind.
I should have said "criminal negligence."
It’s a never ending disaster.
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