Fukushima: the Extinction-Level Event that no one is Talking About

Doug Michael, a researcher on various subjects, contributes this blog post–An overview of Fukushima. The passage you should care about: “In March of 2015, it was reported in the Times of London, that Akira Ono, the chief of the Fukushima power station admitted that the technology needed to decommission the three melted-down reactors does not exist, and he has no idea how it will be developed. Naohiro Masuda, the decommissioning chief of the Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Company, also stated that the technology does not exist to remove the highly radioactive debris from the damaged reactors…Ono also claimed that decommissioning the plant by 2051 may be impossible without huge leaps in technological advancement. It’s also been estimated that plutonium fallout has been 70,000 times greater than atomic bomb fallout in Japan…”

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