Paul Richard Johannessen's past comments

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    Paul Richard Johannessen

    Why can't they just pump cement into every nook and cranny, entomb the entire thing and be done with it?"

    @gogogo it is just too hot to just cover in concrete. It would melt through the concrete over time and leak again. That's why cooling is needed, constantly, for years to come.

    Spent fuel can be safely stored once cooled and blended with concrete into blocks. This process costs around $US1000000 per rod. There are 1500 rods in reactor 4 pool, and 5000 more in the central pool next door.

    Total cost for proper waste disposal is over 6.5 billion US$. Admitting to that expense would make nuclear power no longer feasible or competitive (which it never was anyway). Ignorance is preferable.

    Posted in: Record radiation levels detected at Fukushima reactor

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    Paul Richard Johannessen

    It relates to "earthquake clouds" and exists in an off the shelf system from this company:

    http://www.terraresearch.net/articles/earthquakecloudsarticle1file.html

    They claim that more accurate predictions can be made by reading scalar waves - deep physics that I can almost get my head around. Interesting reading if you have the time, but it runs counter to a lot of established seismology techniques and the industry that surrounds current earthquake prediction techniques, so will no doubt take a long time to be employed in Japan - if ever.

    Posted in: March 11 quake, tsunami disturbed upper atmosphere, says NASA

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