Nuclear power plants in disarray: Lack of waste burial site to delay Tokai reactor decommissioning
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Work to decommission the nation's first commercial nuclear reactor cannot start for the simple reason there is still no disposal site for radioactive waste.
Japan Atomic Power Co. looks set yet again to postpone dismantling of the reactor of the Tokai nuclear power plant in Ibaraki Prefecture, sources said. The task was originally scheduled for fiscal 2011 and then put off until fiscal 2014.
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Decommissioning will generate 27,800 tons of low-level radioactive waste. Of that, 1,600 tons, such as control rods and reactor components, must be buried at a depth of 50 to 100 meters.
Under the plan approved by the industry ministry in 2006, the reactor was to be dismantled over six years from fiscal 2011. The cost of decommissioning was estimated at 88.5 billion yen ($883 million).
No disposal site has since been selected...
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Or for that matter, GE's.
Or maybe all of the advocates can band together and store a little bit in their fridges
get us in this fix. We've wasted 60 plus years trying to put lipstick on that ugly pig and look what its got us. All this time we could have been working on alternates to fossil fuels that would be taking us into the future with out having the levels of CO2 we have now in our atmosphere. 60 plus years of wasted time all for a pig in a poke that should never have been to begin with. No one had a clue as to what to do with the decommissioned nuclear power plants then and no one does today. I'm not buying the reason we find ourselves where we are today back then was we didn't know either as many of us were very concerned with all of this from the very beginning. Knowing full well it was only a matter of time before this nuclear hog came back to bite us in the ass.
What a big mistake splitting atoms to boil water is.
