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In this photo released Saturday by Tokyo Electric Power Co, plastic bags containing protective clothing used by workers battling the nuclear disaster at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi plant, are piled up at a soccer training ground in the J-Village, an athletes’ village that now serves as base camp for the workers, in Hirono, Fukushima Prefecture. TEPCO has not yet decided how to dispose of this low-level radioactive waste properly, local media said.
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sillygirl
i would really like to know excactly what they are going to do with this stuff.
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some14some
recycle & reuse, in line with mottainai campaign.
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@ sillygirl
They gonna make suits with them, maybe some glow-in-the-dark Cool Biz or Super Cool Biz?
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JapanGal
Send them to space.
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LH10
should they burn it??
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Gurukun
Yeah, TEPCO. What exactly are you gonna do with those suits? They will probably do something stupid with them, and then apologize for it....like always.
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The Munya Times
Who knows what's in those plastic bags. And if they are really used protective clothing, that huge pile of white stuff must be highly contaminated/radioactive and why are the other workers hanging around and handling them so relaxed as if it wasn't dangerous without protective suit and mask? Or are they calling those white pajamas that the three workers wearing, protective suit? Are the same in the plastic bags? Those suits are not protective suits, no face mask, the suits cannot be tightly closed at the ankle etc, etc. Did the others worked in that at the NPP?
Shall we ask for pictures of the camp to see in what circumstances the workers live and accommodated?
They decided long ago, they just don't know how to do so that nobody would notice it.
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globalwatcher
TEPCO may say Mottainai, Mottainai and recycle them for radioactive safe T shirts??? LOL
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zichi
These suits only have low level radiation but will have to be disposed of at a low nuclear waste dump.
The Munya Times,
you can get photo's from the TEPCO site
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/news/110311/index-e.html
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zichi
This is just 6 months worth. The nuclear crisis will last -->10years-->20years-->30years-->70years-->
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The Munya Times
@zichi
As always, thanks for the link.
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Elbuda Mexicano
Thanks Tepco, for ruining not only Fukushima, but many lovely parts of this lovely nation called Japan. I do hope the braniacs at Tepco can prove they are smarter than Homer Simpson back in Springfield, and do like Homer and his beloved brain, think brain think!! What would old Homer do with these radioactive contaminated suits?? Think! Brain! Think!
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zichi
Sooner than later, a new nuclear waste storage will have to be built to deal with the dismantling of the power plant, unless its decided to leave it in place and just cover the reactors with sand and concrete, but at least for the moment I think dismantling remains on the table because the people won't be happy with anything else. The cost of building a new nuclear storage will run into billions of yen. At the end of the day, does anyone still believe nuclear energy is a clean, safe and cheap one?
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The Munya Times
@zichi
Hundreds of great inventions and patents that could save humankind are bought up and now lie and dug well guarded in the safes of multinational companies and lobbies waiting until they can milk one working line of business dry . Only after it happened they will find the time adequate to pull the new one. Same stands to nuclear energy especially there, in one of the most ruthless branch of business in the world , the energetic.
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gogogo
They'll burn them :(
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zichi
The Munya Times,
so true! over my long life, I have heard of many such stories and the inventors are given two choices, sell the patents or risk disappearing on one dark night.
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zichi
There are currently 480,000 discarded Tyvek suits after 6 months. There will be about one million per year. They are less contaminated than the sewer sludge ash found in Tokyo. The cost of a suit is ¥1,000, so it will cost TEPCO ¥1000 million per year. TEPCO has downgraded the quality of the Tyvek suits which was ¥1,440 per suit to ¥840, saving 40%.
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sunhawk
i have the perfect idea with what to do with all this radioactive waste. pile them up at all those uninhabited islands that belong to japan but are claimed by china. then the emperor can send a message to the primer of china saying "ok the islands are all yours, we even built up some glow in the dark earthworks on them for you".
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ssway
Said suits will be distributed to prefectures throughout Japan and burned so everyone can share in the contamination joy. Why? Who knows but that is what they will do.
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cactusJack
This is a photo of the only remaining suits they have not burned yet.
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edojin
TEPCO seems to keep coming up with new surprises. Wonder what's next on their list ... ?? They're probably saving a biggie for Halloween ...
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zichi
There's a whole more radiation to worry about than the low level on these suits!
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valley-of-the-shadows
Sad to see a village that offered so much to athletes turned into a dumping ground for radioactive suits.
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zichi
In Ohtawara City, 100 kms south of the Fukushima power plant, 400 tones of radioactive ash have piled up at a garbage incineration plant, which will run out of protected storage space in two weeks.
In Kashiwa City in Chiba, it has been forced to temporarily shut a high-tech incinerator because its advanced technology that minimizes the amount of ash produced has the side-effect of boosting the concentration of radiation.
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kevinintokyo
@zichi, like always thank you for the pictures and information.
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