Fukushima May Become Graveyard for Radioactive Waste From Crippled Plant

[harvey007]

Source: Bloomberg

As the sites are for intermediary use, the nation is still searching for a deep underground storage site for the waste, according to the World Nuclear Association. The selection is due to be completed by 2025 and become operational from 2035, the London-based association says.
About 90 percent of the world’s 270,000 tons in used nuclear fuel is stored at reactor sites, mostly in ponds of seven meters deep, such as those exposed at the Fukushima site when hydrogen explosions blew the roofs off reactor buildings.

Read more: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-26/fukushima-may-become-graveyard-for-radioactive-waste-from-crippled-plant.html

[paparush]

1. They'd pick a site right on the ocean? In a known earthquake and tsunami zone?

This cannot stand, man.

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Same thoughts I had.

Reckless endangerment on steroids. The "EXPERTS" are out to wipe out the planet to make a buck.

[barbtries]

3. my thought exactly

immediately. can they really pretend that another earthquake, another tsunami, are not going to occur?

[Electric Monk]

4. Only 24 years? Why such a hurry? Good thing it's not already a major problem.

:/

[ClarkUSA]

5. Whose brain fart is this?

[damntexdem]

6. And additionally:

graveyard for Japan
graveyard for Eastern Asia
graveyard for western Pacific

graveyard for earth

[Poll_Blind]

8. +1 I was just doing some searching, specifically mainstream sources, in order...

...to try to find as much information about radiation in Hawaii and plutonium, though not necessarily together.

No dice.

The only isotope that's regularly being measured are for Cesium. Even that was spotty. Very little about Strontium, and nothing at all about plutonium except to mention that it's part of the situation.

The stonewall on this in Japan is fucking internationally criminal.

PB

[KamaAina]

7. Why don't they just ship it all to Yucca Mountain?

:sarcasm:

[izquierdista]

9. May?

Here's a reality check for you -- it already IS.

What to do from here on out is the question. I suggest digging a VERY deep hole next to the reactors. Once you get down around 5 or 6 miles, start dropping those old fuel rods into the hole. Keep filling it up, hottest junk first, and when you get done, put a headstone saying "Here lie the remains of Power Too Cheap to Meter".

[tomhayes]

10. Snow Crash predicted this

SACRIFICE ZONE WARNING.
The National Parks Service has declared this area to be a National Sacrifice Zone.
The Sacrifice Zone Program was developed to manage parcels of land whose clean-up cost exceeds
their total future economic value.

[bananas]

11. The term "National Sacrifice Zone" goes way back

I don't know when it was first used, but here's a reference from twenty-three years ago:

http://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/31/us/dying-nuclear-plants-give-birth-to-new-problems.html

Dying Nuclear Plants Give Birth to New Problems
By KEITH SCHNEIDER, Special to the New York Times
Published: October 31, 1988

<snip>

The Government, say some lawmakers, may have no options other than erecting fences, posting guards and warning people to stay away from the most dangerous plants. Engineers at the Energy Department have privately begun calling such contaminated sites ''national sacrifice zones.'' They grimly joke that some zones could turn out to be larger than many of the 39 national parks. But they also say that failing to address the issue could mean that contamination continues to spread through the environment.

<snip>

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