According to Dante’s Divine Comedy, the inscription at the gateway to Hell.
Well, its actually not that bad. I just wanted to use that quote for something other than writing at the top of tests I took in college after not studying.
Japanese Nuclear Reactors
TEPCO is, finally, making progress towards cool shutdown of the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi.
That's the good news.
The bad news is that it will take them nine more months to do it. If there are no more earthquakes, tsunamis or typhoons.
The repairs to the cooling system will be the first to be completed. (Wait, first to be completed? Haven’t they been saying that the could salvage the existing cooling systems?) It was reported that Hidehiko Nishiyama, deputy director of the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, said “there is a possibility that normal cooling systems cannot be revived.” Whomever you believe, the reactors will continue to spew radiation until the a new cooling system is built or the old once is ‘revived’.
“The jury-rigged system has become more efficient in recent weeks.”
And that is the best they can say about the situation at the plant.
As an aside, the government says that residents will be able to return to the exclusion zone in 6 to 9 months after the ground is “decontaminated.”
That’s what they said to the residents of Libby, MT after W.R. Grace contaminated the entire town with asbestos. Now, it's a Superfund Clean-up site.
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