Original article in French:

“La géologie de Fukushima”
[link to fukushima.over-blog.fr]

I finally have a coherent picture. 2.5 years of obstruction by nuclear industry aimed at preventing people from having any coherent picture of the sequence of decisions which resulted in this nuclear disaster.

1. They lowered the Fukushima coast by 10 metres to make it cheaper to pump cooling water to the proposed power plant. 2. They built the power plant over an aquifer and on ground with a fault line present
3. They built the basements below sea level.
4. The quake diverted the underground river of the aquifer through the basements
5. Being below sea level the emergency generators and switchgear were doomed to be flooded.
6. cooling failed, the reactors melted down, the 70 holes in each reactor bottom (design of control rod entry) meant fuel and water leaked from bottom of reactors.
7. TEPCO decision to put emergency generators and switchgear in basements. to save money in 1966.
8. 400 tons of water must be poured into reactors per day to keep them cool.
9. this water enters the underground river and flows to the sea.
10. fuel is too radioactive to approach and remove and will remain so for years.
11. the flow of radioactive water to the sea will continue. 12. No nuclear expert on earth knows the disposition of the fuel inside and outside the reactors.
13. Japan and the world must live with this disaster for a long time to come.
14. There is insufficient knowledge and no technology which will stop lthis disaster soon.
15. The past 2.5 years have seen a river of lies and with holding of information about these facts. The idea that freezing the soil will stop the flow of water to the sea is insufficient to work. Can they freeze enough and go down deep enough to freeze the aquifer? I doubt it. They have not started yet.
16. If all the known facts of this had been disclosed in March 2011, the people of Japan and the world would have turned with very great anger against the people who did this and defend this. The delay in information has actually made this anger worse.

If I were a rich man living in Japan I would start fish farming in the lakes of Japan and become even richer, for I would not eat anything caught in the sea. Sorry to say.