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Those who don't reside 135 miles away from the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl won't understand this reaction. But the first thing most of Tokyo's 13 million residents do once things stop wobbling is check if all's well at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi plant still leaking radiation into the atmosphere and the Pacific Ocean.
Worse, a fresh spate of accidents there make some wonder if the Marx Brothers are in charge. I'm no engineer, gents, but next time you might want to avoid disconnecting the wrong pipe, dumping another 10 tons of toxic water into the soil and contaminating yourself to boot.
First of all, refer to my answer to the first quote above. Next, microwaves heat up the material they act on. Heating a radioactive material to a high enough temperature to fuse it into something else is not really not something you would want to do. Why do you think the biggest problem with Fukushima, and any other nuke storage facility, is keeping the fuel cool???
And the link you provided to the manufacturer of the commercial microwave ovens only states that they are for drying out and sterilizing organic waste.
I don't want to appear argumentative, but I still do not believe that microwave energy can be used in that way. And I do have an engineering and science background; enough so that I have written articles on quantum mechanics among other things. You can read them by visiting my website linked to in my signature line.edit on 27-10-2013 by happykat39 because: (no reason given)
Thanks for the link. The site doesn't mention radioactive materials... at all. Claiming its "top secret", requiring others to just "believe you" or "forget it" is one way of presenting your case.
I have to agree with happykat after reviewing the linkless link...
Nice try. For others to review...
www.envirowave.com...
Purplechive
Please Notice...
How the back of one of the workers shirt is blurred out and also the name on the side of the while van in this video. Rather peculiar...who is TEPCO trying to hide???
(Scroll down after pics and play video...)
photo.tepco.co.jp...
- Purple Chive
Purplechive
....winter is coming....freezing again....pipes break....and the tanks can't even hold up when it's warm.
Dang...wish I wasn't so pessimistic. I use to try and have "Happy Thoughts" a long time ago that Fuku would improve. That sure as hell is gone.
And yeah Intpr....neutrons from a particle accelerator....BEAM ME UP SCOTTY!!
Typhoons...Ice...snow...great conditions to start the delicate process of removing HOT spent nuclear fuel.
Oh well --- have a great day everyone!!
Anyone know where AC has gone??
- Purple Chive
edit on 24-10-2013 by Purplechive because: (no reason given)
. FUKUSHIMA – Tokyo Electric Power Co. may use the buildings housing the two undamaged reactors at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant as temporary storage for rainwater, Tepco Executive Vice President Yoshiyuki Ishizaki said.
Tepco is looking at whether the basements under reactors 5 and 6 can be used to temporarily store contaminated rainwater, Ishizaki, head of the company’s Fukushima Revitalization Headquarters, said Tuesday.
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe asked Tepco in September to decommission the two reactors in addition to the four reactors that were heavily damaged in March 2011.
Tepco will decide on the fate of reactors 5 and 6 by the end of the year. The two reactors managed to avoid the meltdowns and hydrogen explosions that marked the beginning of the catastrophe.
Makhijani: Well, I think the management of contaminated water has been deficient from the beginning. For some of us it was apparent back then, in 2011, that it was not such a good idea to accumulate millions of gallons of contaminated water on-site. I had suggested back then that they should buy a supertanker and put the water in the supertanker and have it sent elsewhere for filtration rather than storing so much contaminated water on-site, risking leaks and worker radiation, because all of this makes it very difficult for workers to work.
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The latest problem that you're asking me about arose when there was a typhoon last week, which is a very, very severe storm and dumped an enormous amount of rain. And what that has done is in the areas that are highly contaminated with leaking water that was contained by berms and barriers, that containment basically got overtopped, and now we have quite contaminated water that's flowing onto other parts of the site and into the ocean,
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Workers actually have a lot of work to do there. They're building buildings to replace the damaged structures from the explosions. They have to put up new cranes. They have to put up equipment to be able to extract the fuel, used fuel that's in the spent fuel pools. So there are thousands of people working on the site, and when you have events like this it makes it very difficult to manage the accident, much more difficult than if you did not have the problem with contaminated water.
truth-out.org/news/item/19584-radioactive-rainwater-overwhelms-fukishima-nuclear-plant