Water, rats, outages add to list of Fukushima plant woes

I though that anything going there would die in no time. Even around the plant but maybe a bit slower. How come rats can come and go there...

Enough of this cowboy nonsense.

Time to ease off on nuclear power and start looking at alternatives.

A lot of energy is wasted on one hand.

And there are alternatives to nuclear power on the other.

I've been told that solar energy is very expensive to install. Yet Roy Bunker, on TED (q.v.) describes how, in the Barefoot University, he sends grandmothers out to electrify whole villages.

All on solar power.

All done on an extremely low budget.

If India can do it, why not Japan?

"Water, rats, outages..." And the list goes on and on...

Eventually TEPCO will run out of excuses and just come out and say they are just INCOMPETENT!!! And trying to use a band-aid to fix Fukushima Power Plant to save money is not an option!

Are the rats and snakes wearing TEPCO uniforms?

TEPCO says none of the about 120 tons of radioactive water that leaked was believed to have reached the nearby Pacific Ocean. Experts suspect the radioactive water has been leaking since early in the crisis, citing high contamination in fish caught in waters just off the plant.

So, TEPCO says none of the water got into the ocean, but experts say the leaking water is the cause of high radiation in fish. Obviously, TEPCO is lying through their teeth to save their butt! Remember for the first three weeks after the tsunami they were stating there was no meltdown at all. Is anybody gonna step in and get these wankers to start doing the job properly and pull them up on all their lies? This really is getting beyond a joke!

Water, rats, outages add to list of Fukushima plant woes

You forgot tepco

A power plant suffering power outages....is there anything more ironic than that?

'Anti-rat nets'. Maybe the yakuza can recruit a few homeless cats.

The regulatory watchdog said Wednesday that it was increasing the number of inspectors from eight to nine to better oversee the plant.

Fear not everyone, they have a solution to all these problems - more inspectors. You can all go back to your daily lives now.

BertieWooster Enough of this cowboy nonsense.

Time to ease off on nuclear power and start looking at alternatives.

I feel sorry to disappoint you BUT it is NO alternatives for Japan (not so big, densely populated, energy poor country)

I though that anything going there would die in no time. Even around the plant but maybe a bit slower. How come rats can come and go there...

The radiation released immediately around Chernobyl was much worse, yet you can see on Google Earth that there are bushes pushing up through the asphalt immediately adjacent to the now sealed reactor building. Life is amazingly resilient.

51°23'22.57" N 30°05'51.98" E

The J-goverment and Tepco continue to downplays the problem and they lacks transparency in the seriousness of the problems. They just say we are still assessing the situation? However, the contaminated water levels are rising substantially and it have become a serious problem. Majority of these contaminated water storage is close to capacity and it will soon be a grave problem, and already the leaks are complicating matters further. Tepco does not tell you the full extent of the underground chambers at the site that are now seeping radioactive water.

Tokyo Electric Power Co, the plant’s operator, to acknowledge that it had added backup power only to the reactors, despite repeated concerns raised over a pool meltdown.

Quite obviously a loss of power to the pool cooling system could be catastrophic. Given the massive scope of potential consequences here, I am astounded that there is NO backup power in place, ready at a moment's notice.

It took 30 hours before power was restored? No plan B? Terrifying.

Japan does have alternatives. There are plans for 21 geothermal plants to add to the 17 that already exist.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-09/japan-considering-21-geothermal-plans-after-fukushima-meti-says.html

ka_chanAPR. 12, 2013 - 05:54AM JST Japan does have alternatives. There are plans for 21 geothermal plants to add to the 17 that already exist.

Japan has 17 geothermal plants currently in operation with a total capacity of 520 megawatts, http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-09/japan-considering-21-geothermal-plans-after-fukushima-meti-says.html

Electricity - consumption: 859.7 billion kWh (2011 est.) = 859,700.00 megawatts http://www.indexmundi.com/japan/electricity_consumption.html

Sorry Japan has NO choice ...

BertieWoosterA Time to ease off on nuclear power and start looking at alternatives. ....... All on solar power. .......

High - industrialised society - means VERY high energy consumption

Solar power- very little very expensive and very unreliable (night and clouds)

But we always can talk about wind power....