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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima No. 1 can’t keep its head above tainted water [View all]AtheistCrusader
(33,982 posts)I support closing these reactors entirely, largely because of the poor performance of the safety measures in place in Fukushima Dai-Ichi.
You would know that if you had simply asked me, instead of freaking out and tipping over furniture in response to YOUR reading of my intent with the word 'negligible'.
An amusing tack on your part, given your rules gaming and backpedaling over your use of 'containment' in reference to the location of the corium in reactors 1-3.
Yes, the situation is untenable. That's why TEPCO is raising the option of dumping the water. They cannot store what is being produced forever. The more they store, the more likely they are to suffer ADDITIONAL catastrophes. What kind of earthquake are those water tanks rated to withstand? Filtering it and dispersing it is technologically feasible, and minimal risk, given the alternatives of say, attempting to store it until another earthquake releases it in an uncontrolled manner, or they run out of acreage to store it on, or run out of money to build more storage, or any number of un-planned-for failures.