Water, Soil And Radiation: Why Fukushima Will Take Decades To Clean Up

Five years after an earthquake and tsunami caused a series of meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in Japan, there are signs of progress. Many workers cleaning up the ruined plant no longer need to suit up in full respirators. Some nearby villages that were evacuated are open to residents.

But there are still plenty of problems.

"Fukushima Dai-ichi is a complicated clean-up site," says Dale Klein, a former chairman of the U.S Nuclear Regulatory Commission who now consults for the Tokyo Electric Power Company, or TEPCO, which owns the plant.


http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-...n-why-fukushima-will-take-decades-to-clean-up

If you have no idea why I am posting all this, because today marks the 5th anniversary of the Fukushima disaster.

 

Before they can even start to clean it up, they need to stop it from spewing the radiation that it still is! It's almost as if it were planned by someone or something larger than the Japanese government and TEPCO combined, and that those who had or have the power to do something about this refuse to because it would be against the grain for what they want to happen or become of this world as the result of this disaster...

 

Yeah, I honestly think something can be done. 2 years ago I was thinking.... come on?! Is that everything we can do? That can't be right, I'm sure if other countries collaborated instead of leaving this to the Japanese government and TEPCO then I'm sure something could have been done to at least stop that contaminated water to end up in the ocean. Now when I watch vlogs about Japan and the sea of Japan is shown I can't help to think about the radiation those poor people must be exposing themselves to...