原文：
Fukushima apocalypse: Years
of ‘duct tape fixes’ could result in ‘millions of deaths’
Russia Today Published
time: August 17, 2013 13:15
Edited time: August 18,
2013 13:41
ロシア・トゥデイ ２０１３年８月１７日 （８月１８日 編集）
現場は、ダクト・テープ（粘着テープ）とキック・スタンドで2年間支えられている。
対処すべきあまりにも多くの問題があるため、そして、何を実行するのか、しないのかは、費用が大きな要因となっているため、東電が言う「修正」とは、いつも一時的なものだ。
比較として、チェルノブイリは、郊外に、福島の四分の一のサイズの原子炉が一基あっただけだ。使い済みの燃料プールもなく、心配する必要がなかった。チェルノブイリでは、地上だけではなく地下も含めて、非常に迅速にその場で事故処理された。
福島では、屋上に６つのプールがあり、最終的に取り出されなければならない燃料が積まれている。3号機もかなり状態が悪いが、もっとも重要なのは4号機だ。使い済み燃料プールは、本来、長期保存のために使われるべきではなく、短期間に燃料を動かすのを助けるためのものだった。プールを長期間保存のために使うのは、大きな間違いであるが、いまでは許された実習となってしまい、世界中の原子炉現場で毎日のように繰り返されている。
地下のどこかに3つの100トンにのぼる溶解燃料の塊があるはずだが、それらがどこにあるのか誰も正確なことはわからない。東京電力がこれまでに設置した予防壁はことごとく失敗している。放射能汚染された水を除染する努力も報われず、ロボットも失敗し，カメラの機械や温度計も壊れて失敗。福島第一原発の周辺都市の除染も失敗した。
福島県大熊町にある破壊された東京電力、福島第一原発の建物
英語原文：
We have three 100-ton melted fuel blobs underground, but where exactly they are located, no one knows. Whatever 'barriers' TEPCO has put in place so far have failed. Efforts to decontaminate radioactive water have failed. Robots have failed. Camera equipment and temperature gauges...failed. Decontamination of surrounding cities has failed.
'The site has been propped up with duct tape and a kick-stand for over two years'
Many of their 'fixes' are only temporary, as there are so many issues to address, and cost always seems to be an enormous factor in what gets implemented and what doesn't.
As a comparison: Chernobyl was one reactor, in a rural area, a quarter of the size of one of the reactors at Fukushima. There was no 'spent fuel pool' to worry about. Chernobyl was treated in-situ...meaning everything was pretty much left where it was while the effort to contain it was made (and very expeditiously I might add) not only above ground, but below ground.
At Fukushima, we have six top-floor pools all loaded with fuel that eventually will have to be removed, the most important being Reactor 4, although Reactor 3 is in pretty bad shape too. Spent fuel pools were never intended for long-term storage, they were only to assist short-term movement of fuel. Using them as a long-term storage pool is a huge mistake that has become an 'acceptable' practice and repeated at every reactor site worldwide.
We have three 100-ton melted fuel blobs underground, but where exactly they are located, no one knows. Whatever 'barriers' TEPCO has put in place so far have failed. Efforts to decontaminate radioactive water have failed. Robots have failed. Camera equipment and temperature gauges...failed. Decontamination of surrounding cities has failed.
Photo: A destroyed building of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1) atomic power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture (AFP Photo)
Many of their 'fixes' are only temporary, as there are so many issues to address, and cost always seems to be an enormous factor in what gets implemented and what doesn't.
As a comparison: Chernobyl was one reactor, in a rural area, a quarter of the size of one of the reactors at Fukushima. There was no 'spent fuel pool' to worry about. Chernobyl was treated in-situ...meaning everything was pretty much left where it was while the effort to contain it was made (and very expeditiously I might add) not only above ground, but below ground.
At Fukushima, we have six top-floor pools all loaded with fuel that eventually will have to be removed, the most important being Reactor 4, although Reactor 3 is in pretty bad shape too. Spent fuel pools were never intended for long-term storage, they were only to assist short-term movement of fuel. Using them as a long-term storage pool is a huge mistake that has become an 'acceptable' practice and repeated at every reactor site worldwide.
We have three 100-ton melted fuel blobs underground, but where exactly they are located, no one knows. Whatever 'barriers' TEPCO has put in place so far have failed. Efforts to decontaminate radioactive water have failed. Robots have failed. Camera equipment and temperature gauges...failed. Decontamination of surrounding cities has failed.
Photo: A destroyed building of TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi (No. 1) atomic power plant at Okuma town in Fukushima prefecture (AFP Photo)
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