Plugging reactors no longer stated goal for Tepco
To substantially reduce the amount of radioactive materials released from the plant, Tepco needs to get to the bottom of the problem: plugging holes or cracks in the reactors' containment vessels that are allowing contaminated water to flood on-site facilities, including the reactor buildings and turbine buildings, experts said.
The updated road map, however, includes no reference to this critical work in the second stage, even though it was mentioned in past plans. And without fixing this problem, it is difficult to say that the release of radioactive materials is under control.
"In terms of managing the leakage of radioactive materials, I think plugging the holes will be the most important point," said Tsuyoshi Misawa, a professor of reactor physics at Kyoto University's Research Reactor Institute, adding he was perplexed it wasn't included in the new plan.
Hisashi Ninokata, a professor of reactor engineering at Tokyo Institute of Technology, also stressed the importance of plugging the leaks in the containment vessels.
"It seems unclear what kind of plans they are considering," Ninokata said.
Very pleased with nuclear
Very pleased with nuclear energy given the safety performance in this terribly unfortunate disaster.
Ugh !
Plugging the holes is not a priority !?
So what is the priority here ?
Saving dollars is the only priority.
‘Welching their bets’
Privatizing Gains and Socializing Losses is the objective of General Electric, TEPCO, Hitachi, Toshiba, Siemens, Areva and the rest of the nuclear power industry in Japan and the USA. The multiple reactor meltdown represents a multi-trillion dollar ($T) loss. The nuclear power industry is busily transferring the loss from the compulsive gamblers to the general public. The players are in the process of ‘Welching on their bets’. This has been the nuclear industry business model for some time.
The executive teams and boards of directors for these firms have never intended to pay for a nuclear disaster. They have always planned to ‘walk the check’ and direct the claiments to Tokyo and Washington DC. They are simply executing their long standing contingency plan. That is why they ‘contribute’ so generously to politicians.
This practice is neither private enterprise nor a properly regulated industry. This is not a new practice for Japan or the USA. The 1st and 2nd Banks of the USA were shuttered by Presidents Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson for this very practice. It is expected that the recent socialization of private losses by Wall Street and the money center banks will soon result in the closure of the present US Federal Reserve Bank. The USA has traversed ½ its history with and without a central bank over this very issue.
This matter of socializing losses and privatizing gains is a simple test to determine when it is time to close the central bank. And it is again time to do precisely that.
Ugh ! Again !
I like and agree with your comment about the gains and losses.
How do we get out of the cycle ?
It is revolting
;)
The practice and the cure, are revolting.
Revolting ?
Being an activist is a dangerous practice.
Could end up in jail with false charges, or wind up dead in some unexplained accident or suicide !
How else can we stop it ?
Beg
:(
Beg, Plead & Grovel
or
Hope, Wish & Visualize
or
Pray, burn incense & chant
or
Peacefully protest, march & boycott
or
Work through the system, vote and write letters
or
Gun Up, lock & load & fire for effect
or ... or
Get used to it.
Live Free or Die.
;)
It is not a new question.
The state motto for New Hampture is:
Live Free or Die.
I am too old to die young, so I am signing my name as big as John Hancock. There is no confusion in the matter.
Perhaps some others prefer slavery, poverty and slow death by radiation or starvation.
There are presently about 500,000,000 firearms, and many billions ammunition rounds, in private ownership in the USA. That is more than the total weapons ever placed in military use, since gunpowder was invented. Enough NEW firearms have sold in the last 3 years to outfit the largest 10 standing armies on earth. I don't personally consider this to represent a sudden interest in plinking or rabbit hunting.
Nobody ever said that freedom was free.
What it takes
:
http://www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/5026#comment-14993
What will it take to get a fair shake for Fukushima citizens?
Seven Samurai
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFJMXp81DoM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNqQXC8Tv8U
The Magnificent 7
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPsm_po7lKA