{"id":61401,"date":"2022-01-10T16:41:43","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:41:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61401"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:41:43","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T21:41:43","slug":"fukushima-takes-a-turn-for-the-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=61401","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"headline\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2022\/01\/10\/fukushima-takes-a-turn-for-the-worse\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse<\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<div id=\"attachment_230955\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-230955 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/16314684897_8665956c70_c-680x453.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/16314684897_8665956c70_c-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/16314684897_8665956c70_c-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/16314684897_8665956c70_c-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/16314684897_8665956c70_c-600x399.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/16314684897_8665956c70_c.jpg 799w\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-230955\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-230955\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank \u2013\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/2.0\/\">CC BY 2.0<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over time, impossible issues grow and glow, putting one assertion after another into the anti-nuke coffers.<\/p>\n<p>The problems, issues, enormous danger, and ill timing of deconstruction of a nuclear disaster is always unexpectedly complicated by something new. That\u2019s the nature of nuclear meltdowns, aka: China Syndrome debacles.<\/p>\n<p>As of today, TEPCO is suffering some very serious setbacks that have \u201cimpossible to deal with\u201d written all over the issues.<\/p>\n<p>Making all matters nuclear even worse, which applies to the current mess at Fukushima\u2019s highly toxic scenario, Gordon Edwards\u2019 following statement becomes more and more embedded in nuclear lore: \u201cIt\u2019s impossible to dispose of nuclear waste.\u201d (Gordon Edwards in\u00a0<em>The Age of Nuclear Waste From Fukushima to Indian Point<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>Disposing of nuclear waste is like \u201crunning in place\u201d to complete a marathon. There\u2019s no end in sight.<\/p>\n<p>As a quickie aside from the horrendous details of the current TEPCO debacle, news from Europe brings forth the issue of nuclear power emboldened as somehow suitable to help the EU transition to \u201ccleaner power,\u201d as described by EU sources. France supports the crazed nuke proposal but Germany is holding its nose. According to German Environment Minister Steffi Lemke: \u201cNuclear energy could lead to environmental disasters and large amounts of nuclear waste. (Source:\u00a0<em>EU Plans to Label Gas and Nuclear Energy \u2018Green\u2019 Prompts Row<\/em>, BBC News, Jan. 2, 2022) Duh!<\/p>\n<p>Minister Lemke nailed it. And, TEPCO is living proof (barely) of the unthinkable becoming thinkable and disastrous for humanity. Of course, meltdowns are never supposed to happen, but they do.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fukushima Takes a Turn for the Worse Photograph Source: IAEA Imagebank \u2013\u00a0CC BY 2.0 Tokyo Electric Power Company-TEPCO- has been attempting to decommission three nuclear meltdowns in reactors No. 1 No. 2, and No. 3 for 11 years now. Over time, impossible issues grow and glow, putting one assertion after another into the anti-nuke coffers. 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