nuclear commission of japan (NISA = nuclear & industrial safety agency) presser coming on

[Hannah Bell]

http://yokosonews.com/live/

[Hannah Bell]

1. 8:02 pm no more smoke at third reactor but...

[Hannah Bell]

2. nhk now carrying too

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/index.html

[Hannah Bell]

3. so flipping back & forth between screens i got

the gray smoke disappeared about an hour ago

they don't think it's an electricity fire because no power to that reactor
they don't think it's to do with the spent fuel rods because of the water-pouring operation, lowered temps & (I guess) lack of radiation rise...

so they don't know.

there was somehting about white smoke on number 2 reactor but i didn't get if it was the earlier white smoke (i think it was) or new white smoke.

[madmax]

4. May do a Chernobyl and bury

it in concrete. The concrete option I believe is a last resort.

[godai]

5. That was said or your opinion? n/t

[madmax]

7. Heard it on CNN nt

[godai]

10. Thanks for clarifying that it was not said in Japan. n/t

[madmax]

15. Yes, it was discussed in Japan

Here: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/if-cooling-fails-japan-may-bury-reactor/story-fn84naht-1226025038550

[godai]

16. Only 'if cooling fails'. Cooling has not failed. n/t

[madokie]

6. They need to get on with that project and soon

the burying part that is cause there ain't no bringing these reactors back from the dead

[madmax]

8. Yes, that was about the gist of the report.

Way beyond salvaging this mess now.

[madokie]

13. With these aging and admitted by the nuclear industry as inadequate fleet of reactors

we have strung out around the world, here too, I sense we'll be here again, same story, same outcome just at a different place.

[Statistical]

9. Why would you want them to bury it? Rather than a proper dismanlting and decon?

Burying just ensure the a high level of radiation will leach into the soil and ground for years.

This is why we dismantle shutdown nuclear plants instead of just burying them in place.

[madokie]

11. Its going to be a long time before they can dismantle these reactors safely

I have no idea what the proper thing to do now is and I seriously doubt anyone here does either. The right thing to do was not build the damn things to begin with.

How much work do you get out of a man that is clad in lead I wonder? I guess they could always do like bushco did with the trade centers and just lie to the workers then deny them any meaningful health care when they became sick.

The trouble with nuclear energy is it keeps right on going like the energizer bunny 'ceptn this radiation shit is serious business.

I know about that because I'm having to live with a great deal of uncertainty because it is to risky even at my age because of the radiation necessary to put me through another round of test because not enough time has elapsed since the last time and in the mean time I may have cancer growing in my lungs and spreading to other organs as I type here on my computer now. So what ever you do don't try to tell me that any amount of radiation or that this catastrophe in japan is safe. It isn't. I know that for a fact as I live with it daily.

[Statistical]

12. Bury the reactor in concrete would be a last ditch effort.

They did it at Chernobyl simply because they had no other options.

While Bury it DID reduce the amount of radiation release at the same time it also guaranteed that millions of curies of radioactive material would make it into soil, water, and air.

If things take a turn for the worse they may have to bury one or more of the plants in Japan but an orderly disposal would long term result in less radioactive release.

[madokie]

14. Should never have built the sunsabiotches to start with

would seem like the logical thing to have done. If you can't see far enough ahead to envision something like this happening then you're in way over your head. Now they're/we're stuck with them and all the poison they possess.