Folks writing about Fukushima have been troll rated and told to shut up when writing about the possible worst case scenario. This is a fact based community. This translates into no conjectures about Fukushima allowed.
I call BS. In science one often starts with the extreme to test a hypothesis. Calculus, for example, is the science of the extreme.
Now we have a professor at Yale claiming that Fukushima threatens humanity. I share his concern. How is it not possible to lose control at Fukushima?
This is An important political point. We need to do more at Fukushima. Why are we not following Arnie Gundersen's suggestion? Arnie suggests building a zeolite trench around the plant. This would prevent fresh water from running into the plant Making the contaminated water problem much more manageable.
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I believe more resources need to be thrown at this disaster. Fukushima is certainly a much greater threat than Iran or Syria.
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Much more serious is the danger that the spent fuel rod pool at the top of the nuclear plant number four will collapse in a storm or an earthquake, or in a failed attempt to carefully remove each of the 1,535 rods and safely transport them to the common storage pool 50 meters away. Conditions in the unit 4 pool, 100 feet from the ground, are perilous, and if any two of the rods touch it could cause a nuclear reaction that would be uncontrollable. The radiation emitted from all these rods, if they are not continually cool and kept separate, would require the evacuation of surrounding areas including Tokyo. Because of the radiation at the site the 6,375 rods in the common storage pool could not be continuously cooled; they would fission and all of humanity will be threatened, for thousands of years.
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