Dr. Hiroaki Koide: "The Trouble with Nuclear Power" Published on Apr 25, 2015 https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=nCbXX3DURd0#t=690
Hiroaki Koide: Former Assistant Professor of Kyoto University Research Reactor Institute
[EXCERPTED and PARAPHRASED, as carefully as possible, FROM INTERVIEW]
Where did the atmospheric contamination go?
Prevailing westerlies blew cesium-137 blew across the Pacific Ocean and “contaminated much of the western coast of North America.”
[data in chart represent Cesium137 contamination April 6 2011 (base-10 log of total ground deposition Bqm2 http://cerea.enpc.fr/en/fukushima.html):
[regarding contamination] It is not only the site itself, but the net impacts spread throughout world. That is why nuclear plant accidents are unique. It is not only the site itself that is "severely damaged, severely contaminated, severely hurt," but the net effects are spread throughout world.
More down to the ground level winds blew all kinds of directions resulting in a large area of contamination in Japan where 30,000 Becquerels per square meter of contamination in some hot spots.
Over 100,000 people are not able to return to their homes because of high contamination in some areas.
In Japan there are many strict laws for governing radiation so there are “radiation control areas” for highly contaminated areas.
Material measuring over 40,000 Becquerels per square meter ordinarily cannot be taken outside of radiation control areas.
[Today] Areas in Japan have contamination over 40,000-60,000 Becquerels per square meter. 14,000 square kilometers should be radiation control areas. But Japan government has declared a crisis and normal radiation containment laws don’t need to be applied.
Basically abandoned people to live there. To throw them away.
What needs to be done:
1. New strategy must be developed to cool melted fuel. Perhaps metals or air cooling.
2. The radioactive swamp area that is Fukushima requires an underground dam of concrete and steel that will surround all the reactor buildings and it needs to be created immediately.
3. Tepco’s strategy of building a wall of frozen soil will not work. What is necessary is a huge wall forged of concrete and steel.
4. Japanese government should do everything in its power to lift emergency situation that allows people to live in highly contaminated areas. Emergency situation declared after Fukushima disaster allows people to be thrown away into areas that normally people should not be.
5. Evacuate all children from contaminated areas.
Thx again Majia. Indeed, Koide Hiroaki speaks out and his voice and words, well translated I heard, have weight.
ReplyDeleteGanbatte!
Now I live in a very well to do community. The educational level is high. Yesterday I was talking with a man while walking my dog. I mentioned Fukushima and he momentarily had a blank look. He had no idea it was anything more than a minor problem in Japan. This is a success story for the American gov and media. Should the reality of Japan be made known the global economy would suffer.
ReplyDeleteThe mitigation that might have been done immediately was not done. What might be done now is also not being done. The oligarchy is caught between economic and social chaos and the inevitable worsening situation.
Are we now on the slow boat to extinction? The recent fire near Chernobyl reveals a problem of the continuing accumulation of tender for fire. This is probably a permanent source of radiation. Ukraine is too busy killing its citizens to take steps to deal with this,
However, there are these power plants all over the world. Dams that can break; Stuxnet and similar computer attacks; using the wrong fuel rods; military attacks--one missile into a plant; earthquakes. Most of society never really grasped how the nuclear represented something new and uncontrollable. And the elite believe their money and power will shield them--I guess.
This is a situation I am sure the Greeks had a myth for. Which one?
Pandora's box still seems appropriate to me and I think the nuke industry's efforts to claim it as their own is telling.
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DeleteProf. Koide is an exemplary human, he knows & he cares, and this video deserves repeat viewings, ty for extending its audience (as for mythology references, from day one, I've felt like Cassandra: common version of her story is that Apollo gave her the power of prophecy in order to seduce her, but when she refused, he cursed her to never be believed.
ReplyDeleteYes, Cassandra is right. The codes Cassandra deploys in truth telling are not recognized as legitimate by institutional authorities and are attacked as non-scientific.
DeleteToday the problem is that science alone has the legitimacy to claim catastrophe and yet science is unable to intuit and explicate the larger patterns that connect the disparate empirical findings.