Fukushima 2020(Yuka Sakurai)

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said that the situation in Fukushima is under control in the Committee of International Olympic on September 7. He said that multiple meltdowns at Fukushima nuclear power plant will not damage Tokyo.

However, the reality is not that easy. It is difficult because we must remove spent nuclear rods from cooling pool. Also, we must make frozen wall on every four damaged power plant so that radioactive isotopes will not spread out. We must find the place to put melted nuclear fuel which is very poisonous.

Those who study nuclear power plants say it is very difficult to know what would be happening in 2020. It is said that dismantling four damaged nuclear reactors takes 40 years to be completed.

First of all, we must try to stop the water leaking from the facilities.

Government says that 30 billion yen would be probably used to permafrost the ground around the reactors. They are thinking this so as to guard ground water from leaking into the plant. Government is trying to finish this by 2014.

In order to do permafrost, it is estimated that it would cost 3 billion yen per year. They also mentioned that they need a lot of electricity in order to move the system 24 hours even though whole country is lack of electricity since Fukushima disaster.

Moreover, they hope to get rid of radioactive material from polluted water.

It seems to be a good way to make artificial permafrost but no one have done this in such a scale, so we do not know what may happen.

In spite of many problems and failure, government action is very slow toward this problem. They asked for an advice worldwide only in September once, about how to handle radioactive water.

However, none of the proposal is successfully implemented in the world because it’s scale is too big.

The head of Atomic Energy Society of Japan, Tanaka says that they should try, and if problem happens, fix it and try again. That is the only way to make out this big problem.

Surprisingly, there are radiation in cooling pool that is 14000 times the amount of Hiroshima’s atomic bomb in 1945. In order to remove rods which contain radiations, they erected moveable crane. This is said to take 3 months to be done. Since they have to do this work without seeing the inside, problems may occur, which is very dangerous.

Article said that no one knows what may happen to Fukushima plant in 2020.

 

 

              By reading this article, I felt several things.

              First, I felt that Japanese Government should have more contact with worldwide expert of nuclear plant because this is a problem related to the whole world. From this article, I learned that Japan only had contact with them once in September and I feel it is too less. We must talk more with experts in the world, get manifold advice so that we can try many ways, and get a better idea to breakthrough this situation. This is not a problem only related to Japan. Since the ocean is spreading throughout the world, it also affects people all around the world. We must think together, get advices from universal professionals.

              Next, I cannot believe that Japan is still trying to sell nuclear power plant to India and Middle East even after experiencing the disaster in Fukushima. We should change this movement since we are the one that know how dangerous nuclear power plant is. I cannot believe what our country is doing to the world, which is a shame. How come we can do this? I cannot understand what Abe is thinking about this. We must not repeat the disaster which we experienced.

              At last, we must try to find new energy for our country. Maybe, we should all make it duty to have solar system in every building. I understand it might be expensive, but we need safe energy to lead our life. We might need government’s financial support for this. Moreover, I once heard that there are machine that can produce energy by people stepping on them.  It might be very expensive, but if we can put them on scramble intersection in Shibuya, for example, we might produce a lot of energy without even emitting bad product such as carbon dioxide.

              If we are faced with problems, we must think something to breakthrough it. It seems easy try not to look at it, but that does not change anything. If there is a problem, there is a reason for it. We must think and try hard to get over it. I understand it is very hard to do so, but I am sure we can learn something if we overcome one problem.

              Thank you for reading my long blog!

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