후쿠시마 원전 사고 복구, "100년 걸리고 5천억 달러 소요" ‘Follow the Money’: Fukushima Cleanup Financially Motivated, Expert Says(VIDEO)

방사성 오염수 누출 문제 전혀 해결되지 않아

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일본 후쿠시마 제1원전, 방사능 오염수 바다 누출

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미국 비영리 단체 Fairewinds Energy Education 전문가 원자력 기술자 아놀드 군데센은 후쿠시마 제1원전 사고 복구를 위해서는 도쿄 전력이 언급한 30년보다 훨씬 긴 시간이 걸리며 원전에서 방사성 오염수 누출 문제는 전혀 해결되지 않았으며, 오히려 시간이 갈수록 심화되고있다고 밝혔다. 후쿠시마 원전 3개의 원자로는 토양의 물과 직접 접하고있다. 원전 작업부와 기사들은 이에 대해 전혀 고려하지 않았다. 그리고 방사선 농도가 높은 오염수가 계속해서 새고 있다. 복구는 체르노빌 사고보다 100배 어려우며 100배 비싸다. 체르노빌에서 회복은 30억 달러가 소요됐다. 후쿠시마 복구에는 5000억 달러가 들 것이다. 후쿠시마 제1원전에서 매일 300톤의 방사성 오염 수가 바다로 흘러 들어가고 있다.이는 오염수를 가득 싣은 유조선 23000척 분량이다.  "일본의 에너지 기업들은 원전에 남아있는 직원들에 급여 지불 때문에 일본 은행에서 수백억 달러를 빌렸다. 내가 아는 일본 사람에 따르면 은행은 의회의 원전 재가동 승인과 재투자를 위해 의회에 강한 영향력을 행사하고있다. 여론 조사에 따르면 국민 대다수가 원전 재가동을 반대하고있다. 그렇지만 도쿄 전력과 일본 정부는 후쿠시마 원전 사고 복구 및 녹은 핵연로 철거가 가능하다고 항변하기 위해 다양한 수단을 사용하고 있다. 그러나 방사능 오염 수준은 아직도 상상을 초월한다." sputniknews.com

Follow the Money’: Fukushima Cleanup Financially Motivated, Expert Says

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The meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant are not over, and the Japanese government’s push to decommission and dismantle the plants in the next thirty years are not scientifically feasible, but financially motivated, according to Fairewinds Chief engineer and nuclear expert Arine Gundersen.

The largest nuclear incident since Chernobyl, the Fukushima catastrophe began when a series of natural disasters led to the meltdown of three nuclear reactors in the Daiichi plant in 2011. After the plant was hit by an earthquake-triggered tsunami, the majority of the reactor’s core melted within just the first three days, creating toxic by-product of radioactive water. 

Some 140,000 people were subsequently evacuated from their homes within 12 miles of the plant, and the catastrophe prompted Japan’s nuclear industry to completely shut down all of its 54 operating nuclear reactors. Now, as the government and utility owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), begin working towards a speedy decommissioning and dismantling of the plant, many are questioning whether a successful cleanup of the site is even possible in such a small time frame.

Chief engineer of Fairewinds Energy Education, a non-profit that aims to educate the public on nuclear policy and safety, Arnie Gundersen says the cleanup efforts are nothing short of impossible.

In a recent video released by Fairewinds, Gundersen gives a detailed analysis of the cleanup efforts and the likelihood of their success. Noting the extent of nuclear damage created by the disaster, the Japanese government and TEPCO’s inability to contain it, and the overwhelming cost and logistics of managing nuclear waste, he arrives to the following conclusion:

"It is impossible to dismantle and cleanup the Fukushima Daiichi site in 30 years. It will take longer than 100 years to do that cleanup."

The main problem, according to Gundersen, is that Daiichi’s three nuclear cores are in direct contact with groundwater, thereby allowing the contamination to spread out into the ocean at an unprecedented rate.

"The groundwater is still leaking in and out of, at a rate of 300 tons per day," he explains. Since over 1,500 days have passed since the March 2011 disaster, Gundersen notes that "the equivalent of 23,000-tanker truckloads of radioactive water have already leaked into the Pacific Ocean."

According to the nuclear expert, Fairewinds had warned of the need to stop the flow of water immediately and suggested several methods and technologies that could prove useful, but "TEPCO and the Japanese government have continued to ignore experts in these technologies."

Worse yet, the radioactivity has now reached the soil underneath the water, further expanding the scope of contamination and increasing the amount of radioactive waste that needs to be removed. The cost to cleanup such widespread radioactive contamination could easily reach half a trillion dollars.

So why is the Japanese government in such a rush to decommission the site?

"Quite honestly, the answer has nothing to do with science, and everything to do with politics and money," Gundersen said. "To understand Fukushima Daiichi, the press needs to follow the money."

While all operating nuclear power reactors in the country are shut down, Gundersen explained that the industry still pays a staff of 700 engineers and operators. They have been able to do this because Japan’s Energy Corporations have borrowed "tens of billions of dollars" from the country’s banks, money that can only be paid back once the nuclear power plants are restarted.

"My contacts in Japan continue to tell me that the banks are putting enormous pressure on Japan’s Parliament to start up Japan’s nuclear reactors so the banks can get paid back for their investments," he said.

The fact that the majority of Japanese citizens are against restarting these reactors also means that the government is under a lot of pressure to prove they can be safely restarted in earthquake fault zones. And the best way to do this is to "showcase the decommissioning and dismantling of the Fukushima Daiichi site, long before it is even feasible from a radiological contamination standpoint."

Many of the issues raised by Gundersen were also noted in a recent International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report in May. The 58-page report was based on the findings of a 15-member IAEA visit to the site in February and notes that though there has been some “good progress” in cleanup efforts, the situation at the plant "remains very complex."

"A range of challenging issues remain, such as the persistent underground water ingress to main buildings and the accumulation of contaminated water on-site; the long-term management of radioactive waste; as well as those related to the removal of nuclear fuel, damaged fuel and fuel debris," the IAEA said.

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