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The plan to stop contaminated water from the quake-crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant leaking into the sea by freezing soil and water is not working as well as Japanese officials had hoped. ... ...
I ordered some wild king salmon the other day at a restaurant.
Before Fukushima this would have been a healthy and wholesome meal. Now fish are regularly testing for measurable amounts of Fukushima radiation. We are told by the "experts" that 10BQ of Cesium per KILO is judged to be easily safe to the eat.
I am worried about even 1 BQ of Cesium per KILO. This means 1 disintegration per second, 60 per minute, times 60 more per hour, times 24 hours in the day times 365 days a year. This means this salmon I had the other day likely had millions upon millions of atoms of Cesium.
And from where came the cesium likely we have strontium and the rest of the panoply of radioactive poisons, most of these being even more dangerous than Cesium.
It seems clear to me that more can be done at Fukushima. Instead of building an ice wall, why not a real wall? The water needs to be kept out of the plant. Whatever it costs to keep the water out of the plant must be spent.
Also, I am still not understanding why Fukushima needs to be cooled while Chernobyl melted down without requiring massive amounts of cooling water. Is the design of our newer nuclear plants worse than the design of Chernobyl?
Perhaps we need to shut down all our nuclear plants if a malfunction leads to such disastrous consequences.