We have been dealing with Nuclear Technology without knowing the full implications of it.
Now the situation is serious and we are debating as to how to dispose of Contamination.
Learn to use less power and shut down Nuclear Plants,it is not worth our lives.
With operations to pump out massive amounts of contaminated water at the crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant running into trouble, new ideas surfaced Wednesday to move the effort forward, including storing the tainted water in tankers and covering the reactor sites with fabric shrouds.
“To stabilize the situation at the plant and keep radioactive contamination at a minimum, we are asking experts to consider various” methods, Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference.
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While many ideas are under consideration, no concrete decisions have been made, he said.
One of the ideas being mulled would be to cover the walls and ceilings of the reactor buildings damaged in explosions with special fabric capable of containing radiation.
However, the feasibility of the proposed ideas had yet to be studied.
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Radiology experts from Greenpeace urged the government Wednesday to expand the evacuation zone around the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant after they found high levels of radiation outside the 20-km mandatory no-go zone.
Jan van de Putte, the radioactivity safety adviser of the NGO, said the survey, taken on a road between the villages of Iitate and Tsushima in Fukushima Prefecture, saw a radiation level of 100 microsieverts per hour, despite being outside of the evacuation area.
This contrasts with the 7.86 microsieverts per hour measured in Iitate by the Fukushima Prefectural Government on Wednesday afternoon.
One would reach the annual limit of 1,000 microsieverts — or 1 millisievert — of radiation as set by international radiation authorities in about 10 hours in such an environment, van de Putte said, adding it is likely residents of Iitate, about 9 km outside the no-go zone, “have surpassed that level” already.
The team of experts at Greenpeace said they conducted their monitoring Saturday and Sunday, and found proof radioactivity hasn’t spread evenly from the reactors.
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