You people do relies he is a troll don't you? Don't talk to him, the second you do it means he has won.
Kumar, Dwayne couldn't tell an atom from a tea-bag. He knows nothing. He lives in a fantasy world that we usually just ignore. There's nothing wrong with his theory ecxept it's got words in it. Real words about real things, but in a totally random, incorrect and downright decietful and lying way. Thats right Dwayne, you're a fantasist and a liar. The sooner you get banned the better, for misguiding honest people with your BLATANT LIES.
They will recover whatever nuclear material they can from the core and entomb the rest in concrete. There is no way to get the reactors out even if they wanted to, which they don't. Chucking them in the sea would just make the sea radioactive, and nobody could ever fish there again. (well, for about 200,000 years anyway) Seawater does nothing to sspeed radiation decay, and will likely rot it letting even more radiation out. Forget everything about tin, carbon, copper, zirconium, static or whatever crap he came out with. They aren't involved at all
The silicon in the concrete is sand, and they used sand and concrete at Chernobyl successfully. Concrete is as hard.. as concrete, and will last thousands of years. Please, do us all a favour and either report or ignore Dwayne, the brainless wonder. Thankyou.
Kumar
Nuclear waste has been dumped at sea for many decades, without apparent harm. The thing to remember is that the oceans are BIG, really, really BIG.
If nuclear material is dumped at sea, the dilution effects are enormous. If you get the concentration of radioactive material low enough, it becomes harmless. The oceans, world wide, are 1'000'000'000'000'000'000 tonnes of seawater. A few hundred tonnes of nuclear material soon disappear.
Kumar
The environmental problem is that the radioactive material is not dispersed, but concentrated in one place, where it can damage sea life.
However, it also seems to me to be a waste. The reactors contain a hell of a lot of valuable fissionable material, that might be salvaged.
Nope
Makes much more sense to do what they are doing.
Cool the reactors, clean up the buildings and then remove the fuel and put it in storage.
Arthur
I've got it! of course!
What is the defining image of Japan?
Mount Fuji.
And what is mount Fuji?
A bloody great volcano.
Why is it there?
Because Japan lies on a subduction zone, hence the earthquake.
Subduction-zones produce heat, masses of it. The ring of fire.
Magma, close under the surface.
Pump a shed-load of water down there and what do you get?
Geothermal energy - tons of it.
Simple really. Free and very green. Just ask Iceland, it works for them..
Are Japneese looking at economical benefits at the cost of life/health?
The Japanese are not going to do anything that is seriously risky.
They did not predict a shallow 9 magnitude earthquake just off the coast, and a 14 metre tsunami.
There is a mountain side on one of the Canary Islands mid Atlantic poised to fall into the sea. When it happens, the resulting tsunami will wipe out the entire eastern seaboard of the United States. It could happen today, or not for a million years, or never.