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Newly found Fukushima nuclear plant contamination may delay cleanup

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By MARI YAMAGUCHI

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Fukushima and Chernobyl should be lessons on the dangers of criminal-grade hubris.

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What a shock!

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This isn't "new" this is "newly reported". They have known about this for a while.

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oh! they haven't been monitoring the situation continuously?

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"It's all under control" said a drunken politician with cash spilling out of his every pocket.

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Newly found???? What they mean was that no one was checking....

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Yes, and funds and resources were diverted to Olympics, don't forget to mention that.

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"Newly found contamination?"....sure. More like "couldn't hide it anymore."

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Based on UK experience with Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear reactor, decommission is expected to last 70 years. This reactor was shut down in an orderly manner. However, the 'Dirty 30' room and First Generation Magnox storage pond, containing an unknown number of heavily contaminated items from the plant's inception, have not been started upon.

Demolition of reactor buildings and final site clearance is planned for 2105 to 2144! And that is if it all goes to plan.

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Newly discovered after 10 years. Of course I believe it.

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Not quite sure why so many negatives were dished out to zichi and wanderlust, for telling the truth. zichi's is non-emotive and factual, except for a few editing glitches. 'Millions of tons' probably refers to the piles of earth in temporary storage areas around Fukushima, I should imagine.

I read about these highly radioactive plugs sometime last year, so the discovery is hardly new. The article itself is not very well written, so it is hard to get a crystal clear picture of the situation there. And then in the midst of all that clunky writing above they suddenly say that the No1 plug was twisted or distorted in some way by the hydrogen explosion, a fact that was not disclosed before, to my knowledge.

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The down votes aplenty are across the board today, it might be a "glitch"! Certainly suspicious, but I'm sure the mods can sort it out. I will take any news about Fucashima from a foreign source. I remember watching it explode on the BBC, then NHK said its all good, government said don't worry? BBC the containment vessels are breached, NHK just hydrogen? So who do you trust a proven source or a government propaganda utility.

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And there is a constant outflow into the sea where radioactive particles are placed, to then become mobile (again) in heavy seas and then are lifted up onto the land.

There is a continual and increased buildup of radioactivity from this disaster.

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Plate tectonics should take over and dump the whole area into the sea.

The earth is a living organism and it would not be the first highly and low level radioactive mater8al would find itself in the sea.

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Not quite sure why so many negatives were dished out to zichi and wanderlust, for telling the truth.

It's probably children on the site. They were here pumping up Trump before.

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nandakandamandaToday 10:28 am JST

Not quite sure why so many negatives were dished out to zichi and wanderlust, for telling the truth.

There is a "person", bot, whoever up(down)voting anything pro(against) japanese by exactly 10 each time, it's done in just a few seconds.

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Thank you GE and Westinghouse.

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So, we’ll only be paying for it until 2080?

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zichi

The design of the plant was signed off by TEPCO. GE wanted the cooling fans and emergency generators on higher ground but that would have increased the costs of construction which TEPCO refused. Just has they refused to increase the height of the sea wall in 2008.

GE, Westinghouse, and the US (along with their LDP supporters, notably Shoriki Matsutaro) were behind the campaign to convince Japanese people to accept nuclear power (after the horrors of Nagasaki/Hiroshima) in the first place.

If they hadn't been successful nuclear power facilities wouldn't have been installed at Fukushima to begin with.

[ In January 1956, Shōriki became chairman of the newly created Japanese Atomic Energy Commission, and in May of that year was appointed head of the brand-new Science and Technology Agency, both under the cabinet of Ichirō Hatoyama with strong support behind the scenes from the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.[2]

In 2006, Tetsuo Arima, a professor specialising in media studies at Waseda University in Tokyo, published an article that proved Shōriki acted as an agent under the codenames of "podam" and "pojackpot-1" for the CIA to establish a pro-US nationwide commercial television network (NTV) and to introduce nuclear power plants using U.S. technologies across Japan. Arima's accusations were based on the findings of de-classified documents stored in the NARA in Washington, DC.[3]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matsutar%C5%8D_Sh%C5%8Driki#Nuclear_power

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