Fukushima Autumn

[unhappycamper]

http://smirkingchimp.com/thread/william-boardman/51945/fukushima-autumn

Fukushima Autumn
by William Boardman | October 3, 2013 - 9:49am

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The Fukushima site has six reactors in all, three melted down, one empty, and the other two undamaged and in cold shutdown. There is also a fuel pool for each reactor, as well a central storage pool, with a total of about 11,000 fuel assemblies, some of which are in dry cask storage.

When nuclear engineer Gunderson was in Tokyo not long ago, he took five soil samples from the streets. They were all "radiologically contaminated," and would qualify as nuclear waste in the U.S. "Tokyo is contaminated," Gundersen concluded.

When Prime Minister Abe asked the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to hold the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, he said of Fukushima: "Let me assure you the situation is under control. It has never done and will never do any damage to Tokyo."

When the IOC awarded the Olympics to Tokyo, it did not announce the cost of its liability insurance, or who would be paying it.

[lonestarnot]

1. I wouldn't want to high-jump over there. Are they actually going to have athletes wanting to go

there?

[Nihil]

2. I expect so ... they will check very carefully with independent experts first ...

... rather than a wank-head like Gundersen

>> They were all "radiologically contaminated," and would qualify as nuclear waste in the U.S.