"The clean-up of the disaster is expected to take at least a decade.

More than 400 litres of contaminated water is being created daily, and the clean-up team are rapidly running out of space to put it.

It has concerned the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) so much that it is considering releasing treated water into the pacific".

 

http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/20233284/fukushima-radiation-can-kill-in-20-minutes/

 

yeah... a tad concerning.... thank goodness they still have time for whale hunting....  

Conspiracy theories are always on the Top of my lists

Won't succeed...we'll all be glowing in the dark. 

Yes, that IS fortunate.

Quite noble of them...not wanting the whales to suffer from their radiation cock-up...good thing they have plenty of harpoons.

The sad 'underside' of this disaster is it was preventable. There are a number of alternative approaches to harness usable energy from nuclear fission that are much safer. Some, like the salt model, can't produce a chain reaction, even if you do really stupid things to the reactor. Oak Ridge explored a number of these approaches just after WW2. The USA decided to use the hot (current) model because the 'cold war' required more nuclear weapons grade materials, and the current nuclear generating plants produce it as 'waste.' Now they are worldwide. Hope? China and a few other countries are developing these alternate nuclear generating technologies that the USA ditched. BTW, Jafo, how do you know the Japanese have plenty of harpoons? Its dark isn't it... oh, no, the harpoons are glowing, too!

Add that to the list of nonsense going on over there. We'll either get blown to bits or blown to bits or grow two heads and a arm or three. What a world we live in.

And if I got to choose where to live, it'd be on the other side of the world.

When I went to buy a car, the model I wanted came in several colors, one of which was dark blue...that was the color I absolutely wanted, but alas, it was not meant to be....apparently the only global manufacturer of that particular shade of blue was in Japan -- right by the fukushima incident....and apparently their production stopped because of the incident...

Not that the color of a car is a big deal when compared to say, glowing whale meat, but nevertheless I think it goes to show that these things affect us...

 

Just personalize it: It doesn't worry you. Fine. Me? It worries...but what do I know?

Spill? LOL Clean up in aisle 4! This is way past spill...300 to 450 tons a day of radioactive waste water being dumped into the ocean...on purpose!

Your falling into the propaganda of those that do not want thorium plants to become a reality because they would longer be able to profit from it. A Thorium reactor no longer a fuel pellet production center which is were the nuclear energy companies make all of their money from, so their would oppose and lie their way out as much as possible to avoid that. The mining industry will not see any increased profits of significance from thorium since thorium is so abundant and use for nothing that currently all mining installation just throw thorium away as waste. IF you would create over night thorium rectors to replace all of of the planets energy needs a lot of rare earth mines would be able to provide all of the earth thorium supply. In our economic system we make money from created shortage, thorium energy is anything but rare, it's extremely common, so common that is only 3-4 mines would dedicate them selves to only thorium mining in thorium hot spots we would have more thorium supplies then we would know what to do with it, more then we could possibly use up for the foreseeable future not to mention that it would make the thorium prices crash down to virtually nothing making all those mine go bankrupt. The truth is that unless rare earth mines extract thorium on the side and sell it at almost no profit because it is so common, thorium mining/extraction will most likely be a nationalized state society along with the reactors because the possibility for profits is to limited. The fuel is dirt cheap, their is no fuel production industry, all that remains is infrastructure such and the power grid, power plants, and cost of personnel. The bottom line is that their is less opportunity and smaller margins to make money form thorium that any other energy source. That link you have up there pretty much admits everything I just said. They have vested interest in preventing this technology from happening since they would stand to lose from it.

Again totally wrong, the thorium was ignored and shut-down specifically because it wasn't suited for weapons manufacturing which is what the US wanted in those years. Producing fissile materials forma  thorium rector is both more difficult then other methods but also contaminates that material. Overtime it screws up your weapon potentially rendering inert and useless, in addition to that because of the properties of the materials produced in a thorium reactor any weapons you would produce from it would have the equivalent of a big NEON SING above it saying "I AM HERE". A weapons made from the materials of a thorium reactor would be the least secret weapon in the whole world, everyone would easily know exactly were it is from space just like we can map thorium deposits on the moon or Mars from space. That doesn't make for a good weapon. In addition unlike current solid fuel reactor sites, a thorium reactor would have the option to poison it's nuclear fuel at teh press of one button rendering the fuel incapable of being turned into a weapon, it would also waste the fuel as reactor fuel as well since it would screw up the reaction chain that the reactor needs to operate.

If you have the patience to sit trough this long video it should tell you everything you would need to know and all of the counter points and so on. Feel free to double check it afterwards if you wish.