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runner3
Yah those tarps will hold in that radioactivity!
Utrack
More contamination was created by incinerating radioactive waste. Incineration releases radioisotopes into the atmosphere. Not to mention leaving radioactive waste on the coastline and along river banks to wash away during heavy rains. The bags of radioactive waste end up somewhere and the do rip and rupture since they are just plastic bags. I guess we should say thanks for the quasi-effort at disposal. But honestly the whole operation lacks professionalism and sincerity.
ifd66
Mental to spead it around the country.
Just leave it where it fell and creat a huge wildlife zone for rewilding - as happened around Chernobyl.
albaleo
They probably will. Do you know different? If so, please let us know.
Utrack
For as I can see JAEA, TEPCO and J Govt. Have done their utmost to deny the true levels of radioactive contamination nationwide. People suffering nosebleeds from accessive exposure ignore/deny their symptoms. J Govt handling of the situation is Not a good way to deal with a bio hazardous disaster.
Utrack
Gamma and Neutron radioisotopes need lead and concrete cinder blocks to stop it.. Tarp and trash bags are like thin air
kurisupisu
The article suggests the waste will be 'disposed of' whereas it will be actually be 'stored'.
There is no way to safely dispose of it except by launching it into space....
Disillusioned
It's not being disposed of. It's being stored!
Dan Lewis
idiots. Where do they intend on putting this crap!?
Goodlucktoyou
8,000 becquerels and up to 100,000 becquerels per kilogram
This amount equals low-level radiation. And pigs fly.
nandakandamanda
kurisupusu, "There is no way to safely dispose of it except by launching it into space...."
Theoretically, maybe. But this was discussed endlessly in the 1960s, and there is no safe way of lauching such a spacecraft. If it explodes before reaching the outer atmosphere...
Alexandre T. Ishii
Disposal of any radioactive waste could be the next innovation for JAXA to have it disposed outside the earth orbit, establishing the aerospace base near Fukushima.
Freddie Krug
Use the ash as fertiliser on forest to establish peat soil. The nature will reduce the radioactivity.
drlucifer
How God alone knows the number of tons of contaminated waste that has been deliberately disposed to the sea. Since investigative journalism is not what j-media especially if it puts the country in bad light.
GW
The sheer lunacy of what the govt is doing boggles the mind!
And distributing this waste countrywide is absolute IDIOCY!
Kobe White Bar Owner
send it all to TEPCO head office.
nandakandamanda
Some years ago they had to clean up the waste and spillage from the Ningyo Toge uranium mine, and as I recall they thinned it out by mixing it into the materials for making house bricks, for park/garden borders etc.
that person
@kurisupu
Yeah, like we haven't messed up our own planet enough. Let's throw more of our garbage into a place called “space”. Which by the way, we also don't know anything about!
Out of sight, out of mind...
Until it bites us in the...
What's even more disturbing than this suggestion is how many thumbs up you got for that.
Jtsnose
What is the half life of the stored radioactive waste? How long will it take to become harmless to humans and other animals, plants, environment?
Christina Tsuchida
I am not sure how much exposure to how many becquerels of cesium may cause nosebleeds, but I KNOW that the dry climate of KANTO often causes them anyway--without exposure!
kurisupisu
Look!
I have a perfect solution and that is to .... laugh and smile!
Japanese government advice tells us that radiation is not a problem as long as we are merry.
Problem solved!
Bill Wright
Radiation, the gift that just keeps on giving when taken in large does. Fail to safeguarding is containment and usesge should be a criminal Offense.
mmwkdw
You also have to wonder what TEPCO is doing digging holes around the place in Tokyo... perhaps filling them in with these low-level radioactive contaminants ?