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IAEA praises Fukushima clean-up

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..now this will encourage people to return to their home base in Fukushima, ofcourse not, i praise IAEA for clean up :(

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@prospective posters, please read the full report and leave your comment, which part you agree/disagree. That would be helpful for us to understand what to worry or not to worry. Thank you.

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When will they clean up their debris that is drifting to the beautiful coastline of California?

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@Blair Herron,

Are you in Fukushima? I have only browsed trough the report very quickly, to make any meaningful comment would require some time to read trough the material.

My first impression is that the report is written in such a way, that there is not really very much to agree or disagree with. The only point of disagreement becomes whether or not you agree with the limits that has been set by the government, as IAEA only (or at least mainly) reports on which remediation actions has been tried and whether those actions are effective to reach the set goals.

IAEA does not make any evaluations here on whether the limits set on the government are safe or not, that is up to J gov.

My inner grumpy, cynic, old man views this report as:

Jgov: -The shit has hit the fan IAEA: -What are you planning to do? Jgov: -Well we could try to scoop some of it up? IAEA: -Well done, carry on then.

Bystander: But will the room still not stink for 30 years?

Jgov: eh?

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The IAEA is run under japanese leadership, so how can we make sure this is credible

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Vested interest I hear people say..... Of course.

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IAEA praises Fukushima clean-up

How much were they paid for that? They wanna elaborate what exactly was so good?

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Well, if they have found 3,000 people to work night and day for 8 months in a potentially gene-changing environment, then this has to be one firm measure for congratulations. How many other countries could have done this without mass defections?

As the report is says, there is room for improvement. Perhaps the focus has indeed been too conservative, focusing on the round-about clean-up, but with less aggressive intrusion into the still very nasty areas.

Have Tepco learnt their lesson over the sea wall?

Granted the IAEA are there to make sure the whole world goes nuclear as smoothly and cleanly as possible, so they will naturally take a softly softly approach, but as summaries go, this report seems to be fairly objective.

The truth, though, is that the area is still a hugely intricate challenge and still massively polluted.

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The IAEA is a watchdog of sorts but it is at its heart pro-nuclear. No one should think otherwise. I have been disappointed with their wishy-washy response to this disaster. I had expected them to sink their teeth into TEPCO on their previous visits, but they only gave them a nip in the buttocks. The phrasing of their reports seem to make them all too easy to ignore or downplay. I would have liked to have seen some stronger language and sense of urgency.

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IAEA= It All Emerges After

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The Munya Times

They wanna elaborate what exactly was so good?

It's in the report.

zichi, very rational plan, and it makes perfect sense. That means it'll probably never be implemented!

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Cheers to Zichi, fact filled posts with no emotional bias. Makes for compelling reading and a serious tone. Also actually made me want to read the report, which I've just started.

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With Amano as Director General, IAEA is no longer an objective body.

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I have read the report, but really no need to comment any further than Zichi already did. Just as a small addition to Zichis third post I would say,I think the government should assist any family in affected areas to relocate and make a new life for themselves somewhere else if they wish to do so. Especially if they have children.

As I said before, this really comes down to whether you agree with J-govs risk assessments, rather than the remediation efforts.

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From the UK Telegraph

"Hiroaki Koide, a nuclear physicist at Kyoto University, said he doubted the decommissioning process will go as smoothly as the government hopes.

He said pools for spent fuel remain highly volatile, and cleaning up the three reactor cores that melted down due to a failure of the cooling systems will be a huge challenge.

"Nobody knows where exactly the fuel is, or in what condition," he said. "The reactors will have to be entombed in a sarcophagus, with metal plates inserted underneath to keep it watertight. But within 25 to 30 years, when the cement starts decaying, that will have to be entombed in another layer of cement. It's just like Russian Matryoshka dolls, one inside the other."

And when the journalists were in the plant and their camears were recording, there was a point where a Tepco official requested that the journalists' cameras be pointed downwards as the readings on the dosimeters showed abnormally high levels of radiation being recorded-radiation that is being released into the Japanese environment,at this present moment!

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God speed Japan. Let's hope this report is confirmation that Japan, after struggling mightily at first, has got a good start on the clean-up efforts and can develop the plans and processes necessary to do what must be done over the next couple of decades.

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Zichi the map from your link is found ajw Asahi too and it's a little different from the map on the parts of Japan too radioactive to farm article.

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Yeah and the maps a little different right. Like there is an area that is a darker purple than on the map from the JT article.

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okay.

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Did the IAEA mention that the clean up work at present is being done in the main by temporary labourers with no health insurance and local amateur volunteers with ridiculously inadequate equipment and no training?

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