Thousands evacuate as Fukishima nuclear emergency is declared

[Peter Lemkin]

Prime Minister has just officially declared a cold shut down* at the reactor - and all is safe...go back to sleep [and don't believe it!] :popworm: He also said he hoped the residents would soon return. What a joke......maybe their grand children will. Maybe not. They don't even have a realistic plan at 'decomissioning' [burial under lead, boron and concrete somewhere]. He mentioned a figure of one Trillion Yen. I doubt it can be done for less than ten times that.....and it will take 30 years or so....by a plan that is not even imagined yet. Any new earthquake, pipe break due to radiation brittleness, tsunami or other such could re-start a full-scale disaster over that 30 year period. I wish them luck...they will need it! Not to mention the assumed 5-10x Chernobyl radiation already released, their so-called shutdown does NOT mean the end of radiation leakage...at BEST, it means a reduced amount, only. How they EVER plan to remove the top layer of soil [2-5 m] etc. over an enormous area - and where to put it - is beyond me [and beyond them, frankly]. Maybe they can just sell the whole plant and all the contaminated buildings and area on ebay.

*a cold shut down has a precise definition in an intact reactor. There is NO definition for a damaged one, like these...so they are mis-using the term as a PR exercise.

A great poster child for the nuclear industry who will do their best to make it disappear from everyone's mind. Rotsa Ruck!