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Tokyo Electric Power Corporation has announced that the company would provide one million yen for each affected household (750,000 yen for a single-person household).
This $12,000 temporary damages payment scheme is however not welcomed by evacuees from the 30-km zone. They say that if it is all TEPCO can offer, they cannot accept it. The number of households who were evacuated from the zone and are qualified as recipients is about 50,000.
But, it is not a simple matter of money. It is a matter of trust.
TEPCO should have said that their nuclear plant is safe because it can withstand a disaster that could happen only once in a thousand years.
They should not have said that they were not a fool who worried about a possibility of occurrence of a disaster that could only happen once in a thousand years.
CHAPTER I: Significance of Fukushima Accident
It should not have happened, an M9.0 earthquake and a 14-meter high tsunami, but it did.
They should not have been paralyzed, the Fukushima Daiichi reactors, but they were.
The fact that the 2004 Sumatra-class earthquake and tsunami happened in Japan was shocking.
The fact that the 1986 Chernobyl-class nuclear accident happened in Japan was also shocking.
Especially hydrogen blasts were so shocking as they blew off the buildings housing nuclear reactor vessels.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1369216/Japan-nuclear-crisis-Fukushima-Fifty-pictures-inside-nuclear-power-plant.html
It is understood that the Japanese society will undergo a significant change as the American society did after the 9/11 Terror of 2001.
As I wrote, the sub-era of 2000s was highly influenced by the way of Americans handling the aftermath of the 9/11 Terror of 2001. This sub-era of 2010s will be highly characterized by the way of the Japanese handling the aftermath of the 3/11 Disaster of 2011, though the Fukushima nuclear problem is now still going on.
CHAPTER II: Dig Pools at Fukushima Plant
Now, 90% of efforts in the Fukushima Daiichi Plant are consumed for water handling.
Thousands of tons of water have been input into the pressure vessels and the spent-fuel pools of the four reactor units of the Plant, in order to cool nuclear fuel.
The problem is that the facilities are partly broken and water is leaking. No circulation systems function well due to pumps submerged in the buildings. But, water must be sent to the vessels to cool the fuel. So, how to dispose the radiologically contaminated water is a big problem, now that 60,000 tons of contaminated water, probably including the seawater the tsunami brought in, is in the Daiichi Plant.
From the beginning, they should have started to dig a big water pool beside a reactor building immediately after the accident happened a month ago. A pool with a size of 50 m x 20 m x 10 m (10,000 tons) could be built in a week. Then they must have had 4 of big water pools by now without a need of discharging 10,000 tons of a low-level contaminated water to the North Pacific Ocean.
Juts dig a big water pool is a right temporary solution, since they are now charging water at a pace of 5 to 20 tons per hour per unit. The water volume each unit can take in its pressure vessel is 200 tons for #1 and 330 tons for #2 and #3, respectively.
As an international design rule, every nuclear power plant must have a big underground pool for emergency water reposition.
CHAPTER III: Fukushima vs. Chernobyl
First of all, the tragedy in Chernobyl occurred during operation of the reactor. The accident did not even stop the power-generation operation with a critical state of nuclear fuel inside the power plant.
But, at Fukushima, one second after the M9.0 Earthquake, all the three reactors of #1, #2, and #3 under operation stopped their electricity generation with control rods inserted between fuel rods. The fourth unit had no fuel inside the pressure vessel but had all spent fuel rods in the pool inside the containment vessel.
Prof Richard Wakeford, Visiting Professor in Epidemiology at the University of Manchester, said:
“The Japanese authorities have temporarily assessed the Fukushima events as Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale (INES) on the basis of the estimated quantities of radioactive iodine and caesium released since the earthquake on 11 March – around 10% of the releases from the Chernobyl accident, the only other INES Level 7 event. However, the Chernobyl accident had a much greater radiological impact, and the Japanese authorities have acted to limit the radiation doses received by both emergency workers and members of the public. Indeed, the only INES Level 6 event – the "Kyshtym" accident in the USSR in 1957*, when a radioactive waste tank exploded – had a much greater radiological impact than is predicted from the events at Fukushima.
Dr. J.T. Smith, Reader in Environmental Physics at the University of Portsmouth, said:
“The preliminary grading of the Fukushima accident as Level 7 on the International Nuclear Events Scale reflects the severity of radionuclide releases to land and sea. But there are key differences between Fukushima and Chernobyl, the only previous Level 7 accident. From the data so far, it seems that about ten times more radioactivity was released at Chernobyl. Crucially, key health protection countermeasures have been put in place at Fukushima. At Chernobyl, local people were not evacuated until about 48 hours after the accident: children were still playing outside as the reactor burned, and potassium iodide tablets were not distributed. In the weeks after Chernobyl, people continued to eat milk and leafy vegetables highly contaminated with radioactive iodine.
Prof Laurence Williams FREng, Professor of Nuclear Safety at the John Tyndall Institute, University of Central Lancashire
“I am a little surprised by the uprating to level 7. On the basis of the publically available information there has been no significant change in the state of the 3 affected reactors or the 4 spent fuel ponds and there has been no sudden increase in radioactivity released into the atmosphere.
“I can only assume that the Japanese authorities are taking a very conservative line given that the 3 reactors are not yet under control and the conditions in the fuel storage ponds in reactors 1 to 4 where there are significant quantities of spent nuclear fuel is also not fully under control.”
Dr Pradip Deb is a Senior Lecturer in Medical Radiations at the School of Medicals Sciences, RMIT University
“The increase of the level of Fukushima incident to level 7 is combined re-classification of the earlier individual assessments of the different level of incidents of different reactors. This does not mean that it will do any extra harm to the public life. Although this level 7 is the same level as Chernobyl incident, the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency estimated that the amount of radioactive material released in Fukushima is ninety percent less than Chernobyl.
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The nuclear energy is not suitable for generating electricity.
But, there is a big reason that this technology has been widely applied.
It is related to the merit of nuclear weapons. If a nation is armed with nuclear weapons, it cannot be defeated in warfare. So, development of the nuclear technology has big justification. So, politicians would like to be trusted by the people, presenting their policies to defend their nation with the mightiest weapons. Nobody would make a protest, since having the best weapons is an act of nationalism. But, industry would not stop at mere production of nuclear weapons. They would try to make profits by applying the nuclear energy to electricity generation. Accordingly, it would lead to formation of a big powerful community of politicians, the industry, the media, and others.
If there is no problem of radiation contamination, it is accepted. But, radiation is so dangerous to human beings. The nuclear energy is not suitable for generating electricity for mankind.
Yet, to stop the nuclear power generation, we have to first stop politicians who would like to be trusted by the people, presenting their policies to defend their nation with the nuclear weapons.
I think this is what the God has indicated through the 3/11 Disaster of Japan, since an M9.0 earthquake should not have happened on March 11, 2011 150 kilometers northeast of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
Luk 4:14 And Jesus returned in the power of the Spirit into Galilee: and there went out a fame of him through all the region round about.
Luk 4:15 And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.