Fukushima Is a Disaster - No Question about It.

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34. Arnie Gundersen was asked what he would do if he were in charge:

http://www.nuclearhotseat.com/nuclear-hotseat-117-gundersen-charge-fukushima-vision/

Synopsis-Gundersen expressed the need for an international group of independent experts to craft a risk-based strategic plan, and the need for a public, independent process to oversee implementation. He suggested that Americans, especially on the west coast, lobby Congress to pressure the Japanese government.
What he'd do if in charge:

1. Fire Tepco. They are not an engineering firm, don't know what they're doing. Bring in a large engineering company.

2. Instead of protecting the nuclear power industry, tell the Japanese people the truth. Fukushima will cost about a half a trillion US dollars.

3. Pump down the ground water table where clean water is continually leaking into the site and becoming contaminated. (300 tons daily is leaking into the Pacific ocean.)

4. Remove the spent fuel rods from units 3 and 4 manually.

5. Build a sarcophagus over each of the three melted down reactor carcasses. Let their radioactivity decay for a century. The radiation will then be ten times weaker.

6. The entire "tank farm" is held together with plastic pipes that won't withstand an earthquake, so pray. Over a thousand of these poorly constructed tanks hold highly radioactive water.