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In reply to the discussion: TEPCO’s Risky Operation at Fukushima - The Nation [View all]Katashi_itto
(10,175 posts)entire region, never to return. Keep pouring water (And they are understating the amount contaminated water that is going into the ocean by a factor of 20) and you keep the rods barely cooled until the next earthquake of scale 7. Once the earthquake happens 98% chancew of one in the Fukishima region in 3 years, when it happens, you lose most if not all of Japan and the West coast.
TEPCO is trying to cover it all up because they have nothing else they can do except try to keep themselves from being put infront of a firing squad along with the politicians that let this happen. So they keep coming up with fictional solutions.
The problem is when this finally goes bad, this will be planetary bad.
The contaminated water going inot the Pacific is killing the plankton. No Plankton means no Pacific. No Plankton means no O2. A sterile, poisonous mass of water slowly spreading further and further.