2021-03-04
Mar 4, 2021 (Greenpeace Japan) – Nearly a decade after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident, Greenpeace released two reports today that highlighted the complex legacy of the 11 March 2011 earthquake and tsunami.
The first report Fukushima 2011-2020 detailed radiation levels in Iitate and Namie in Fukushima prefecture. Our original findings showed that decontamination efforts have been limited and that 85% of the Special Decontamination Area has undergone no decontamination.
The second report
Decommissioning of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station From Plan-A to Plan-B Now, from Plan-B to Plan-C critiqued the current official decommission plan within 30-40 years of having no prospects of success and is delusional.
we couldn t make it to the door. it i was shaking too far and too much. too violently for us to get out. he was lucky to get out. we will have more on the interview later this week. tonight the crisis, quake. the clock is running. michael friedlander was an operator at a nuclear paurmt for a decade. when the cables were hooked up, it hasn t been fully restored, the cooling pumps haven t been turned on but you believe the risky work is ahead. that s right. think about it. when that accident happened, much of the radioactivity basically stayed inside of what we call the primary containment building. certainly over the days we have seen the venting and consequences of that on the countryside and now reaching its way to tokyo but most of the radio activity is outside of primary containment and as we
restore the systems and move the plant to stable shut down condition we need to start to move large quantities of radioactive water outside of primary containment and that is going to require meticulous oversight and management. there is concern about something i hadn t heard about before but salt build up in the reactors that could cause harm and heat up even more. are you concerned about this and explain why there is so much salt in the reactors, from the salt water? yeah. for almost two weeks we have been injecting 100 gallons a minute of sea water in to these reactors. it s sort of like a teapot on the stove. as you pour increasing amounts of water in that, salt water in the teapot the water boils off and leaves the salt behind. and so it is on surfaces inside the reactor vessel and settling on the bottom of the reactor. what we are worried about is
are quite high. and the only thing that can come from is having products and other things being vented from the building. it s unfortunate that is occurring, but that indicates there has definitely been some level of melting and breach of primary containment, which is, you know, the fuel element itself has been compromised in several of those assemblies. i don t know what levels. based on the levels i see of radiation, it s very difficult not being there on the ground. but i can tell you that based on my experience, i believe that only partial melting has occurred because the radiation levels if it were total melting would be significantly higher. but these are radiation levels that will hurt people.