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BREAKING: US Senator issues press release on No. 4 Spent Fuel Pool — Warns situation worse than reported after tour of Fukushima plant
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 11929805:MV8xODM5MzEzXzMwNjY4NjAzX0YyQ0NFQzMz] [quote:Anonymous astrophysicist 1104563:MV8xODM5MzEzXzMwNjY3OTExXzU2RTZFQjM1] I agree with the above poster, Trying to create an uncontrolled fission reaction in the fuel rod containment using a nuclear trigger would simply result in a a very tiny amount actually being fission into lighter isotopes, which would still be radioactive The rest would be vaporized and spread mostly into the pacific ocean and western north America It is an insane idea. The solution is to remove the fuel rods and bury them deep in a geologically table area encased in concrete and separated from each other. It won't be cheap and there will be hundredths of people that die in the process of removing the fuel rods, but the alternative is possibly the contamination of the entire northern hemisphere of the planet with nucleotides that have half lives in the thousands of years. [/quote] But this is the solution we are going to get because this is the solution we as a species deserve. [/quote]
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Source: Press Release of Senator Wyden
Date: Monday, April 16, 2012
“The scope of damage to the plants and to the surrounding area was far beyond what I expected and the scope of the challenges to the utility owner, the government of Japan, and to the people of the region are daunting,” Wyden wrote in the letter. “The precarious status of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear units and the risk presented by the enormous inventory of radioactive materials and spent fuel in the event of further earthquake threats should be of concern to all and a focus of greater international support and assistance.”
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link to wyden.senate.gov
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link to enenews.com
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