Japan's Kan says nuclear clean-up could take decades

[PoliticAverse]

Source: Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said Saturday it will take decades to clean up and decommission the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant after the world's worst atomic accident since Chernobyl.

Kan's comments marked the first time that Japan's government has offered a timeframe for the clean-up at Fukushima beyond the emergency measures now underway to shut down its reactors.

"It will take three, five, ten years, or eventually several decades to take care of the accident," Kan told local officials from his Democratic Party of Japan meeting in Tokyo.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/japans-kan-says-nuclear-clean-could-decades-101626812.html

[Ghost Dog]

1. Irreparable damage has been done to the biosphere.

And is still being done.

[crikkett]

5. We're all gonna die from it too.

Love your life now because there's gonna be a cancer cluster the size of the west coast pretty soon.

[Ghost Dog]

8. Too right.

But, what about the children?

[defendandprotect]

11. ... but who will report it --? Did you notice how Helen Caldicott was shut down in reporting ...

some of the truth of Chernobyl recently - ?

Even that info is still a threat to those supporting the industry and the huge

new surge Obama had scheduled for them in US with a new generation of nuke plants here!!


Those who chase dollar bills are threatened by truth -- even decades later.

[Ghost Dog]

15. I was researching this issue back in the '70s, UK university, for a PhD.

So, when they saw where I was going with that, they cut my funding.

(Happened: I'd already fallen, in love (with a French girl, ummm, woman,), soo... I just pissed off, at the time).

[defendandprotect]

16. Amazing ... !!! Did you see the reports two weeks ago from Australia ....

about how their Global Warming scientists are being threatened --

actually their very lives are being threatened!!

Reminder of what happened here in US with W Bush and the EPA -- if you couldn't

lie -- or intimidate the scientist into telling lies -- then you simply changed

their report!!


The only way this nation has fallen under right wing control is the same way

Hitler arrived -- violence, assassinations and stolen electins --

and the gold to pull it off with and keep it covered up.



And lucky you re the French love -- !!


PS: Did you lose all your research -- and were you actually in Russia or how were you

tracking it? If you have the time to say ... !! ??

[Ghost Dog]

17. Hi, friend. I'm a true Brit, mostly Spanish, or even Berber, these dayz

You know the answers to all your questions already, right?

Awaiting the American Revolution, here. Aren't we all?

Don't worry about ne. I/We were very young, back then. I'm still working on the PhD, self-financed, now. :evilgrin:

Nb, Did you read Will Self's "Butt" yet, BTW?

[crikkett]

21. I didn't see those reports either! Got a link?

thanks
:hi:

[crikkett]

20. I didn't notice that Helen Caldicot was shut down.

Thanks for this news. When was she 'shut down' and how do you know?

Got a link?

[defendandprotect]

10. Damage to Japanese citizens will never be atoned -- estimating this in dollars ...

is shocking and meaninglelss -- at least to those of us who value life

and don't judge it based on the yardstick of a dollar bill!!

[Ghost Dog]

18. Indeed. No price

on the soul.

[MineralMan]

2. No doubt. This mess cannot be cleaned up quickly or easily.

A realistic look at what will be involved is essential. If people have some sort of expectation that some kind of quick cleanup is possible, that will lead to serious misunderstandings. The incident happened. Nothing can change that. Now, planning begins to try to deal with it. There's no simple solution.

Nuclear power generation is not safe. It has never been safe, and cannot be made to be safe.

[Overseas]

3. K&R for the honesty.

[mopinko]

4. no, this accident can not be cleaned up.

this accident cannot be cleaned up.

[defendandprotect]

12. +1

[bemildred]

6. Centuries even. Millenia. Forever. It will never be the same. nt

[defendandprotect]

13. +1

[saras]

7. The Japanese official was careful to say "take care of", NOT "clean up". That was the reporter.

[defendandprotect]

19. +1 --

[defendandprotect]

9. And, 5-6 years ago they were talking about shutting down these reactors ... !!!

We need to all be thinking about keeping our little corners of the world

safe from a tragedy such as this -- which we are all affected by!


The Mayor of Fukushima was pushing to shut these reactors down 5-6 years ago

due to their age, but also because they were built to withstand only 7.0 earthquakes --

and Japanese scientists were seeing increasing seismic activity --


Whatever they were going to do was interrupted by W Bush and the nuke industry --

and the Mayor replaced with a pro-nuke Mayor.


The rest is now history -- a history we should be trying to avoid ourselves --

We have 106 nuclear reactors across the US -- all built near water -- in Ohio, two

reactors built on Lake Erie -- a source of drinking water!!

Most are not being properly maintained and are aging --

And we insure them because no private insurance company would or could -- !!


We should be discussing closing down these threats to our health and the peace of the world.

[awoke_in_2003]

14. could?...

awful optimistic