{"id":18329,"date":"2016-02-26T14:16:32","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:16:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18329"},"modified":"2016-02-26T14:16:32","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T19:16:32","slug":"fukushimas-5th-year-of-full-blown-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18329","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima\u2019s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fukushima\u2019s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis<\/a><\/h3>\n

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March 11th is the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan\u2019s NHK broadcaster recently conducted a poll of how citizens feel about nuclear power. According to NHK\u2019s poll results, over 70% are in favor of completely or partially abandoning nuclear power plants. Nothing too surprising about that, but on the other side of the spectrum, the Abe administration is pushing real hard to re-open closed nuclear power plants, in fact some are already splitting atoms like crazy.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what the March 1st 2016 issue of Scientific American says about the prospects for Fukushima\/TEPCO on its 5th anniversary: \u201cToday the disaster site remains in crisis mode\u2026 Even more troublesome, the plant has yet to stop producing dangerous nuclear waste,\u201d Madhusree Mukerjee, 5 Years Later, the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster Site Continues to Spill Waste, Scientific American, March 1, 2016.<\/p>\n

According to Naohiro Masuda, Chief Decommissioning Officer for Tokyo Electric Power Company (\u201cTEPCO\u201d), the technology required to remove nuclear fuel from the reactors does not exist yet: \u201cEngineers are studying the problem, but we don\u2019t think that there\u2019s no way to remove the fuel. There\u2019s huge risk involved. If you make one small mistake, it might cause a huge problem for the local people, or even worldwide. We have to be aware of that possibility,\u201d Steve Featherstone, Fukushima: Five Years Later, Popular Science, March\/April 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s huge risk involved. If you make one small mistake, it might cause a huge problem for the local people or even worldwide.\u201d Those are the words of the Chief Decommissioning Officer for TEPCO. Here\u2019s the problem: TEPCO doesn\u2019t even qualify for \u201csmall mistakes,\u201d all of their mistakes, and there have been many, mucho mistakes, have been huge, big, gigantic, elephantine mistakes.<\/p>\n

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Fukushima\u2019s 5th Year of Full-Blown Crisis March 11th is the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. Japan\u2019s NHK broadcaster recently conducted a poll of how citizens feel about nuclear power. According to NHK\u2019s poll results, over 70% are in favor of completely or partially abandoning nuclear power plants. Nothing too surprising about that, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[340,12677,579,580,12542,3425],"class_list":["post-18329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-fukushima","tag-naohiro-masuda","tag-nuclear-power","tag-nuclear-radiation","tag-robert-hunziker","tag-tepco"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18329"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18330,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18329\/revisions\/18330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}