The Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan happened more than six years ago, and most people, especially the non-Japanese, don’t even register it anymore. In most people’s minds, given the amount of time that has passed, the situation should have been ‘handled’ by now. After all, that’s what governments are for, right?
In the following video, Right Wing News looks at disturbing new reports which shows that not only is the situation far from ‘handled’, but that it may be rapidly worsening. In an attempt to cool the reactors, they have generated 920,000 tons of radioactive contaminated water. They are running out of storage space and are now talking about dumping it straight into the ocean. Oh, and they’re not sure if the nuclear cores are still within the reactor or if they have melted through the bottom. How long will it take for this disaster to be fully contained?
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They was the accepted method in the past...a very short sighted plan..
´´From 1946 through 1993, thirteen countries (fourteen, if the USSR and Russia are considered separately) used ocean disposal or ocean dumping as a method to dispose of nuclear/radioactive waste. The waste materials included both liquids and solids housed in various containers, as well as reactor vessels, with and without spent or damaged nuclear fuel.[1] Since 1993, ocean disposal has been banned by international treaties. (London Convention (1972), Basel Convention, MARPOL 73/78)
However, according to the United Nations, some companies have been dumping radioactive waste and other hazardous materials into the coastal waters of Somalia, taking advantage of the fact that the country had no functioning government from the early 1990s onwards´´