Area around Chernobyl plant to become a nuclear dump

[bananas]

Source: Kyodo

A heavily contaminated area within a 10-kilometer radius of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine will be used to store nuclear waste materials, the chief of a state agency managing the wider exclusion zone said in an interview.

“People cannot live in the land seriously contaminated for another 500 years, so we are planning to make it into an industrial complex,” said Vitalii Petruk, the head of the State Agency of Ukraine on Exclusion Zone Management. The zone is 30-km radius from the site of the 1986 nuclear accident — the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

“We are thinking of making land that is less contaminated a buffer zone to protect a residential area from radioactive materials,” he said.

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The complex will be used to store and process nuclear waste including spent nuclear fuel sent from power plants in Ukraine, he said.

“We are considering building a facility for alternative energy such as solar panels” so as to utilize the remaining electricity infrastructure including power grids for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant there, he added.

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Read more: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/03/24/world/area-around-chernobyl-plant-become-nuclear-dump/

[christx30]

1. That place had better have security that makes a

federal prison look like a broken screen door.

[AxionExcel]

2. Another freaking "Sacrifice Zone"

special delivery to us from the mechanistic plutocratic yang-sucking thugs who trash our home planet earth, and thereby create these godforsaken wastelands, which are multiplying and one day may infest the whole of of our Earth

[FLPanhandle]

5. The area around Chernobyl has been a boon to wildlife

Now that the humans are mostly gone. Human beings are a bigger danger to nature than the radioactivity.

If they can make the area a storage area for nuclear waste, it'll keep humans away longer. The trick is to do it securely and safely. Humans aren't too good at that.

[cemaphonic]

6. That's been one of the most fascinating lessons from Chernobyl.

The other is that bacteria has been evolving that is using the radioactivity in the most contaminated areas as an energy source.

[FLPanhandle]

8. The bacteria thing is new to me.

However, it's no surprising. As long as humans stay away from the area, it'll be a great study in how nature can progress without human interference.

[Baobab]

10. Animals born with eight legs (photo)

" target="_blank">Wouldn't this be great for multitasking? .

NOT.

[Downwinder]

3. Add fuel.

[NV Whino]

4. Oh good. We'll just up the 500 years to a few thousand

Probably won't make any difference. We will have annihilated ourselves by the hat time anyway.

[uhnope]

7. not The Onion?

how Kafkaesque: “People cannot live in the land seriously contaminated for another 500 years, so we are planning to make it into an industrial complex,”

[jtuck004]

9. "a buffer zone to protect a residential area" ... It already is, since no one wants to move back,

even to the relatively uncontaminated areas. So this puts that to good use, though the thought of Chernobyl just over the hill, and that weird glow every few years would make me edgy.

Still, a good use for the space, since, with what we know today, it is out of our hands for several generations. And I like how they are going to give it power:

“We are considering building a facility for alternative energy such as solar panels” so as to utilize the remaining electricity infrastructure including power grids for the Chernobyl nuclear power plant there, he added.

ON THE OTHER HAND...

As for the future dismantlement of the Chernobyl plant, Petruk said his country has been in talks with France for some two years about possible cooperation and it also wants to consider talks with Japan.

Dear author: You want to talk with Japan about fixing a nuclear reactor? Have you been smoking that Chernobyl strain which actually grows at the site again?

[lastlib]

11. "Dear author:"

You want to talk with Japan about fixing a nuclear reactor?

Maybe they want to learn how NOT to do it.............