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Title: Jaczko,
Johnson & Tsutsui, The Ongoing Fukushima Daiichi Crisis
Japan
Expert: Cancel plans for trying to remove Fukushima melted fuel —
Cover buildings with concrete instead(VIDEO)
Source:
Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan
Date:
September 24, 2013
Tetsuro
Tsutsui, Member of Nuclear Regulation Subcommittee, Citizens’
Commission on Nuclear Energy (CCNE) Nuclear Power Plant Technical
Experts’ Group:
Plans
for removal of debris should be cancelled. The current METI and Tepco
road map says that the removal of the [melted fuel] debris will begin
8.5 years after the accident and be completed 20 to 25 years after
the accident.
We
propose the following alternative: The contaminated water problem
should be resolved. Spent fuel in the spent fuel pools should be
removed as planned. Then we propose that the water cooling of the
damaged reactor cores should be continued until the decay heat is
reduced sufficiently for natural air circulation. Subsequently, the
equipment and building areas [slated?] for isolation should be
covered with This proposed method could avoid many uncertain
difficulties which would arise in the METI/Tepco plan, including:
Plugging an uncertain number of cracks in the pressure and
containment vessels; The need to develop missiles to break up the
blocks of debris and remove the pieces of debris; The extensive
radioactive dose to workers; The huge financial expenses.
Watch
the FCCJ event here
See
also: Bloomberg:
Tepco now in talks to cover Fukushima reactors with concrete for next
75 years — Officials reviewing plan in U.S.
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