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I fail to understand the need to "clean this up". Figure out a sphere around the site that is safe to work in. Dig it out and incase everything in and be done w
by myrandomcomment 10y ago
I fail to understand the need to "clean this up". Figure out a sphere around the site that is safe to work in. Dig it out and incase everything in and be done with it. Sucks to loose the area but much simpler. Heck, turn the site into a nuclear dump site. Yes you have to monitor for leaks, etc. No it's not an ideal site geology wise. You can engineer around that.
Yes, I understand physics and engineering and earthquakes (and spent years in Japan). I am trying to be practical.
- 21 10y agoI think you vastly underestimate the amount of dirt/concrete/steel needed to encase any meaningful area.
- tptacek 10y agoDoes he? That's part of how Chernobyl was mitigated.
- myrandomcomment 10y agoExactly, but I was down voted for asking a rational question. People you do not have to agree but there is no reason to down vote a question that is clearly not a troll! Oh, they poured 16200 cubic meters of concrete for a project in L.A. in 2014 and that was just the foundation. China poured 6.6 gigtons 2011-2014. To the person that down voted me, this is just an engineering issue. Period. Sorry you do not understand that.
- toyg 10y agoIt's also a political problem: who's gonna pay for that? Japan is not exactly booming, public debt is sky high, they have had multiple earthquakes and flooding events in the last few years... the Chernobyl sarcophagus was paid for by several countries over decades, here it looks like Japan is pretty much alone for a number of reasons. Every engineering problem has an inescapable cost dimension, and on this scale it inevitably spills into global politics.