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Japan Sizes Up Task of Fukushima Waste Disposal
TOKYO - Japan faces the prospect of removing and disposing 29 million cubic metres of soil contaminated by the world's worst nuclear crisis in 25 years from an area nearly the size of Tokyo, the environment ministry said in the first official estimate of the scope and size of the cleanup.
Protesters hold placards during the anti-nuclear march in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, Sept. 19, 2011. Six months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered reactor meltdowns, explosions and radiation leaks at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan's northeast coast, the size of the task of cleaning up is only now becoming clear. (AP Photo/Koji Sasahara) Six months after the March 11 earthquake and tsunami triggered reactor meltdowns, explosions and radiation leaks at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan's northeast coast, the size of the task of cleaning up is only now becoming clear.
Contaminated zones where radiation levels need to be brought down could top 2,400 square km (930 square miles), sprawling over Fukushima and four nearby prefectures, the ministry said in a report released on Tuesday.
Tokyo Metropolitan prefecture has a total area of 2,170 square kilometers (840 square miles).
The environment ministry has requested an additional 450 billion yen in a third extra budget for the year to next March that the government aims to submit to parliament in October, Kyodo news agency reported.
The government has so far raised 220 billion yen ($2.9 billion) to be used for decontamination work, but some experts say the cleanup bill cost reach trillions of yen .
If a 5 cm (2-inch) layer of surface soil, likely to contain cesium, is scraped off affected areas, grass and fallen leaves are removed from forests, and dirt and leaves are removed from gutters, it would amount to nearly 29 million cubic metres of radioactive waste, the document showed.
This would be is enough to fill 23 baseball stadiums with a capacity of 55,000 spectators, and the government must decide where to temporarily store such waste and how to dispose of it permanently.
Japan has banned people from entering within a 20 km (12 mile) radius of the plant, located about 240 km (150 miles) northeast of Tokyo and owned by Tokyo Electric Power Co . Some 80,000 people were forced to evacuate.
The government aims to halve radiation over two years in places contaminated by the crisis, relying on both the natural drop in radiation as time passes and by human efforts.
The ministry's estimate assumes that cleanup efforts should be mainly in areas where people could be exposed to radiation of 5 millisieverts (mSv) or more annually, excluding exposure from natural sources.
The unit sievert quantifies the amount of radiation absorbed by human tissues and a mSv is one-thousandth of a sievert. Radiation exposure from natural sources in a year is about 2.4 mSv on average, the U.N. atomic watchdog said. ($1 = 76.655 Japanese yen)
(Editing by Ed Lane)
81 Comments so far
Show AllThe worst nuclear disaster in 25 years?
The worst ever and still going. This isn't like some record snow storm, one of those natural events that just come around every so often.
This is the inevitable result of continuing to use nuclear power. It is a filthy industry meant to supply fuel for weapons and trying to justify its filth by pretending to be useful as a power source. It is an insane way to boil water and uses enormous about of fossil fuel in construction and mining.
Nuclear power spokes people and regulators have lied to us since their beginning. They continue to lie and to hide their many accidents and leaking facilities. This filthy industry must be ended everywhere and we will still be dealing with the waste/filth generated by it for thousands of years.
Where will it be dumped? Not in Japan, but some third world country's dictator is going to get richer while his people get cancer, or it will be dumped in the ocean, out of sight, out of mind, contaminating seafood forever, or maybe both.
I'm betting it'll go into the Pacific along with the millions of tons of radioactive waste from this fiasco that have already gone there.
The story implies everything's been fixed and all that's left to do is some clean up.
Yes sir, it's a small world and getting smaller everyday — the inhabitable world, that is.
~~Golly Gee~~ I'm afraid you could give a million to one odds on that bet and not worry about losing.... Your first posted comment was spot on also... It ain't near over.
Fukushima was good for business! Lockheed developed and patented a method for removing radioactive particles from soil. Of course, they also charge $1,900 for a toilet seat. How is that for disaster capitalism. An unnamed Lockheed source was quoted as saying, 'By the time we clean up this mess, we will own all of Japan." (that was a joke) http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/5573738/description.html
Lockheed Patent 5573738 - "The present invention provides a method for removing uranium from particulate matter, such as soil, by forming an aqueous slurry of the contaminated soil and utilizing a two-stage leaching process to remove uranium. The contaminated soil is first subjected to a series of pretreatment steps in which the soil is sized, scrubbed, and verified for levels of radioactivity."
The same unnamed Lockheed source reassured Americans by stating that, 'No American workers will be exposed to the removal process.' (that was a joke also)
The only problem with this scenario is that the patent is for a method to remove uranium not cesium. The chemistry of these radioactive elements is different so it is unlikely that it will have much success on decontaminating cesium-137 from the soil.
It brings tears to my eyes every time I realize that the people of Japan near the disaster have to deal with the fucking fools that dealt this to them. These ff''s act just like the rest of us except that they don't give a flying 'f' about you and me and act like they do. The instigators should be put in chains, that's the entire nuclear bastion of promoters. They are of no earthly good, they have become psychopathic in nature.
The poor are most affected by disaster. I've read a couple of books on the plague and learned that the best thing to do is move away. When the plague hit London the wealthy moved to their country estates and lived. The poor had no place to go and many died. (A JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, By Daniel Defoe http://www.gutenberg.org/files/376/376-h/376-h.htm)
If I were Japanese, I'd move as far as possible from Fukushima.
Well, ~SJRyan~, That's very likely correct... Antarctica may be a half safe place to move to after another couple of years or more of those three melted down reactor cores still spewing out radioactive poisons every minute of every day.
The rich who move there will be eating penguin pate' on ice cubes,,, or each other.
Antarctica! Sounds good. I'll need a lot of sunlamps.
GW bought a huge property in Uruguay a few years back. It sits on top of the largest fresh water aquifer coming out of the Amazon basin. If WW3 broke out, he and his family would have a place to hide out. Good for a pandemic also. Fresh water, organic everything, prime beef and no fracking. He could develop the property and sell condos to his billionaire buddies. They could all sit around at night and sing drinking songs. 'It's a long way to Fukushima, It's a long way to go.....' (to the tune of Long Way to Tipperary)
Thanks to the MSM and nuke industry news blackout, this article is based on the ridiculous premise that the reactors and fuel pools are under control and contained, and Japan can now strategize and estimate soil cleanup. The fact is, there are three ongoing simultaneous meltthroughs, and a fuel pool containing over a thousand TONS of rods that seems to have gone missing. Reactor 4 is hanging on by a thread. The area is becoming increasingly radioactive, so much so, that neither humans nor robots can get close enough to the melted corium to measure it, locate it, let alone contain it. There has been strong evidence of intermittent re-criticality. A whole alphabet soup of radioactive isotopes have been spread far and wide, aided by continued deliberate burning of debris, and the recent typhoon.
It would be like getting a fire damage estimate from the insurance company while your house was still burning and just went from a 2 alarm blaze to a 4 alarm blaze.
This is purely a propaganda technique of slowly releasing the bad news in measured amounts, in a delayed fashion, to desensitize people to the enormity of this disaster. And Japan, Tepco, and the nuke industry have been very successful at it so far. But physics and biology will have a way of biting their best laid plans in the ass. Any bet that Tokyo will be evacuated within the year?
I appreciate your post, nohobear. The continuing earthquakes in the area as well as the direct typhoon hit are not a problem, according to Tepco. Just a flesh wound.
thank you...this is the topic of our times, and the way it is being treated, all too familiar, by now...
unfortunately, following on the heels of the Deepwater Horizon gut-gauntlet, this disaster is even worse in scope...
as I said in another post, this whole nuclear thing would be very different if hot particles were visible in the air, as oil is in the water...
black humor might point toward the fact that at least they don't need to add some additional poisonous crap like Corexit to the problem just to hide it...
anyway, good post...I couldn't agree more...the tendency to discuss this, or any similar issue, as a past, and concluded, event, when it is ongoing, is so insidious...
the media makes it so easy to lie...they just spew whatever...
~~nohobear~~ you nailed it BAM!.., Thank you very much for those true and how it is comments... It won't suprise me if not only Tokyo has to be evacuated at some time, but half or more of the Islands of Japan.
Of course the Japanese government may have to raise their already false "safe" limits of radiation even higher, because the only place left for the Japanese to run to is Okinawa... Unless they decide to invade China, Burma, Korea, the Phillipines, Thailand, etc, once again.
The Fukushima disaster gives new meaning to the phase, "Land Of The Rising Sun".
Your reference to " ... spread far and wide" is spot on, and that "far and wide" includes North America where fallout was being seen several days following the initial "releases" from Fukushima. That fallout has continued unabated ever since. It would seem that a function of the MSM is to convey the false impression that this is strictly a Japanese problem. Global circulation insures that there in no place free of impact. It is safe to assume that we are getting fallout on a daily basis.
When humans have a booboo, every second in the universe counts . . .
Nuclear industry: night of the living dead.
Well I am guessing there's some US facility or corporation willing to take it for a price. And I am guessing there' are no regulations in existence to prevent them. Or perhaps they can incorporate it in bombs. Afterall the price paid will add to the GDP.
I think we are losing the human race. I have no idea who or what will take the checkered flag.
Was there a nuclear incident in Japan? From the US news you'd think not.
is...not was...
A sadness beyond description --- as I watch my grandchildren play --- I cannot help wonder if they will live to see their grandchildren --- or if they do, if they will regret having done so. dh
Japan 'scared' of telling truth to Fukushima evacuees
ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy
Updated September 29, 2011 06:10:24
full article and video here:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-28/fukushima-residents-unable-to-return-home/3026496
excerpt:
A former adviser to the Japanese cabinet has revealed the government has known for months that thousands of evacuees from around the Fukushima nuclear plant will not be able to return to their homes.
Nearly seven months after the meltdowns at Fukushima, about 80,000 people are still living in shelters or temporary housing.
Former special adviser to Japan's prime minister and cabinet Kenichi Matsumoto has told the ABC that the government has known for months that many who live close to the Fukushima plant will not be able to return to their homes for 10 to 20 years because of contamination.
and
Professor Matsumoto has also revealed details about the stricken plant's operator, TEPCO.
He says TEPCO wanted to abandon the plant at the height of the crisis, but its request was rejected.
"First TEPCO did not convey accurate information about the accident to the prime minister. It tried to make the disaster look small," he said.
"Then TEPCO's headquarters wanted to evacuate the nuclear plant, but the chief of the facility vowed not to leave. So prime minister Kan was outraged because he wasn't getting proper information or the truth."
You willing to move there and become a test subject?
~~mkb29~~ Do you happen to know anyone named ~~RFinston~~?
Anyone who states (any level) of cesium137 which is eaten or inhaled is "safe", gets my 'paranoid' attention... What level is "safe", how many eaten or inhaled isotopes of cesium 137 is "safe"?
How many isotopes of eaten or inhaled cesium 137 is (unsafe) or harmful to health? Please state a number, be it one, two, three, fifty, a hundred, a thousand, or more. Thank you and please do not ignore that fair and reasonable question for this "paranoid" old duffer.
Let's ask this:__ if there is a numbver of isotopes of cesium 137 that is harmful to eat or inhale, which one, or two, or three, or a hundred or more of the eaten or inhaled isotopes of cesim 137 does the body damage; number one, or number 100?
You see ~~mkb29~~ it is my understanding that every single microscopic sized isotope of radioactive cesium 137 has the exact same ability to radiate body cells and cause cancer as any other one... Since that makes perfect sense, how does one claim there is any safe level of cesium 137? __ Inhale one and it will end up causing body damage, from radiating nearby body cells werever it lodges in the body, until the nearby cells become cancerous.
So I don't trust any literature that says there is a "safe" level... I certainly will acknowledge that the more isotopes of radioactive poisons eaten or inhaled, the more cancers will develop and the sooner the person dies from radiation poisoning.
Btw, ~~mkb29~~ I for one welcome you here at the "paranoia" forum... I love humor and jokes and to read the nonsense which some ignorant people will write here and do it with such seriousness and pretense of having any common sense or the intelligence displayed by a dead Dodo bird. .
Wayne,
Your understanding of the basics of radioactivity and its hazards at the cellular level is wrong. No scientist to my knowledge has ever contended that one 'isotope' (whatever amount of activity are you postulating?) is certain to lead to cancer. Were that the case, virtually the only cause of human death would be cancer and it would all be due to natural radioactivity. We all carry many millions of atoms of Carbon-14, Potassium-40, and various radioisotope descended from Uranium and Thorium and they are distributed through our tissues just like the Cesium-137 atoms from weapons testing in the atmosphere and from the Chernobyl and Fukushima accidents have been and will be. The risk of causing cancer from one radioactive atom ('isotope" in your terminology, perhaps?) is vanishingly small. It is a matter of chance, but apparently the chance is so slight as to be non-existent in all practical ways.
I urge you to take a look at the citation of mkb29 to the article by a Polish scientist who was involved with the remediation of the aftermath of the Chernobyl accident. It is almost a mirror image of what you, 'Hero' and others have been promulgating. These two analyses present the outer limits of the risks that may result from Fukushima: basically nothing at one extreme, to the end of the human race at the other extreme. Each will have to decide where the truth lies but at least we should read the details before forming our opinions.
Don't they use these same isotopes as weapons? Weapons of mass destruction? Was it not the U.S. that just invaded a sovereign nation on the pretext of their having a nuclear capability. How would you compare that threat to the actual contamination in Fukushima?
~~Finston~~ you wrote in part,,, ("We all carry many millions of atoms of Carbon-14, Potassium-40, and various radioisotope descended from Uranium and Thorium and they are distributed through our tissues just like the Cesium-137").
In other words, according to you, there is no danger from the cesium 137 being released from the Fukushima melted down reactor cores... If that is so and true,,, Finston, why are the Japanese bothering to scrape up millions of tons of dirt?
You failed to answer the question once again ~Finston~ , as you have refused to do on other threads here on this subject... As you have stated many times, inhaling or eating cesium 137 is a health hazard,,, but you claim it depends upon the amount eaten or inhaled that matters.
So once again, ~Finston~, answer this fair and reasonable question... How_ many_ isotopes_ of _ cesium 137_ eaten _ or _ inhaled-_are_ a _ health_ hazard? ,,, Which can easily cause cancer to develop anywhere in the body. You will side step that question again if you bother to reply,,, so just don't bother... Live Dodo birds weren't very intellignet RF.
Wayne, you seem to enjoy putting words in other peoples' mouths.
If you will read the essay of Dr. Jororowski cited earlier in this string, you will learn that he questions wide-scale earth scraping remediation in the case of Chernobyl and he explains why. There are areas of Fukushima that need to be scraped but the question for the Japanese is what level of contamination warrants it?
As to how much Cs-137 is a hazard, my estimate is that 1 microcurie (37,000 Bq) will cause a hazard of one chance in 5,000 of causing a cancer anywhere in the body. Whether that is a "hazard" depends upon whether you believe that it is, given the underlying life time risk of cancer is one chance in 3 without the Cesium intake. Based on that cancer risk we all face and the estimated additional risk of Cesium, I would say that 1 microcurie is not a "hazard". Do you? If so, how much Cs-137 do you consider to not be a hazard? Surely there must be amount that makes no difference to you. If not, then what steps are you taking to reduce your exposure to natural background radiation? Please tell us. There is no magical point where radiation changes from being 'not a hazard' to a 'hazard'. It is a matter of degree.
Does this answer your question? Please, no more 'putting words'.
Thank you for YOUR estimates. RF... I'll see if our doctor can have them printed in the Medical Journal... That is Earth shaking information, get ready for your Nobel prize.
You should advise the Japanese government that they don't need to scrape up all of their contaminated dirt and to stop worring about the melted down reactor cores at the nucear power plant and let everyone who was evacated return to their homes. .
Well you asked, and I answered; your derision is neither warranted nor appreciated. Dr. Jaworowski may wish to advise the Japanese, for that is not an issue with which I have had personal experience as has he.
I care about what a nuker shil like you appreciates? _ No, Finston, I don't and I never have put the disinformation words you spout off into your mouth.
Apparently Dr Jaworowski is also a nuker advocate or doesn't understand that injesting or inhaling (any) cesium 137 isotopes can cause cancer... And then if a person is in an area where inhaling cesium 137 is likely, they wil likely inhale many more than just one.
Answer to your question to me... Inhaling ONE isotope of cesium 137 is inhaling one too many.... Bye Finston,,, throw ya later. .
There you go again with name ("shil") calling, Wayne. By the way, since we both are apparently up in years, even your belief that inhaling 1 atom (if that is what you mean by "ONE isotope") of Cs-137 can cause cancer, it may be some comfort for you to know that the chances are good that it will be excreted from your body before it emits radiation (the average life of an atom of cesium in the body is about 100 days), and further, the odds are 50-50 that even if that one atom stays lodged in your body until you die, say in 30 years, it won't have emitted its radiation either. For those reasons your concern about 1 atom is way off the mark. Which is why I wrote earlier that you don't understand the basics of radioactive decay, much less how the body metabolizes various chemicals.
When a micoscopic (isotope) of cesium 137 is INHALED, it will enter a lung and from there enter the blood stram, just as an isotope of oxygen does...From there it will travel throughout the body until it lodges in bone marrow, or the liver, brain, etc. The chances of it being coughed up are slim to zero. And again it is not very likely a person would only inhale ONE isoptope, yet that is possible.... And I don't play word games (atoms or isotopes).
That throw ya shill? __ If you don't wish to be classified as a nuker shill, don't act like one.
WayneWR wrote:
'You see ~~mkb29~~ it is my understanding that every single microscopic sized isotope of radioactive cesium 137 has the exact same ability to radiate body cells and cause cancer as any other one... Since that makes perfect sense, how does one claim there is any safe level of cesium 137? __ Inhale one and it will end up causing body damage, from radiating nearby body cells werever it lodges in the body, until the nearby cells become cancerous.'
If a cesium-137 atom is inhaled, it will likely then be exhaled. If it somehow does stay in the body (with a half-life of about 70 days), it MAY emit a burst of ionizing radiation exactly ONE time as it decays to barium-137 (a stable isotope). The cesium does NOT become lodged in the body. The radiation emitted MAY be partly responsible for causing cancer. Every one of us has radioisotopes in his body, including alpha-ray emitters. (Cesium-137 emits beta rays, which are much less hazardous.)
John
~Wrong ~~John Lanetta~~.....When (inhaled), an ISOTOPE of cesium 137 enters a lung and (unlike much larger sized pollen which are normally coughed up), will enter the blood stream the same as isotopes of oxygen do,,, then travel to the bone marrow, liver, brain, or some other body organ and set up a cancer factory..
Your outright lie of a half life of (70 days) of an isotope of cesium 137 in the body is an unproven, pro nuker, dreampt up theory.
If you wish to play semantics with word usage and use th word (atom) in leau of isotope, that's fine with me Johnny.
WayneWR wrote:
'~Wrong ~~John Lanetta~~.....When (inhaled), an ISOTOPE of cesium 137 enters a lung and (unlike much larger sized pollen which are normally coughed up), will enter the blood stream the same as isotopes of oxygen do,,, then travel to the bone marrow, liver, brain, or some other body organ and set up a cancer factory..'
That's not how the body works. Since you use the phrase "isotopes of oxygen", I assume that you're using "isotopes" and "molecules" synonymously. The alveoli that line the lungs are quite selective. There is four times as much nitrogen as oxygen in the air, but essentially no nitrogen in the lungs enters the bloodstream.
'Your outright lie of a half life of (70 days) of an isotope of cesium 137 in the body is an unproven, pro nuker, dreampt up theory.'
www.evs.anl.gov/pub/doc/Cesium.pdf
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesium-137
www.nuc.berkeley.edu/node/3165
John
I have posted this info for ~~FRinston~~ also Johnny, because he is just as obtuse and ignorant and PRO-NUKER on this issue as you are.
From wikipedia article...("The committed effective dose equivalent or CEDE is an estimate of the radiation dose to a person resulting from inhalation or ingestion of a given amount of radioactive substance. The CEDE is expressed in rem or sieverts (Sv). It takes into account the radiation sensitivities of different organs and the time a particular substance stays in the body, which can be up to a "whole lifetime".)... A WHOLE LIFETIME ~~johnny~~..
Inhaling cesium 137 is not inhaling nitrogen Johnny.. It is well documented in Medical Jouirnal thar inhaling radioactive (*isotopes*) is very common at nuclear accident sites such as Chernobyl or Fukushima and the (isotopes) enter the blood stream just as oxygen does... That is why the workers at nuclear accidents wear maks Johnny.
Inhaling gasoline which has (lead) added is a good example too... The lead enters the blood stream very quickly from the lungs and lodges in body organs, brain, liver, etc, just like cesium 137 does... Lead is not (nitrogen) either Johnny... The body does not work with lead, or paint fumes, or radioactive isotopes as it does with nitrogen. ... And btw, some countries still add lead to gasoline to up the octane level.
And Johnny, (internal) gamma or beta radiation is very harmful to body cells... You don't like the use of the word (*isotopes*)... Why not?__ Nuclear scientists, medical doctors use it all of the time to decribe (isotopes) of cesium 137... Don't play word games in an attempt to discredit others.
I will leave it to the readership to decide as to which side of this argument is responsible for "pejorative, scurrilous, ad hominem personal attacks". You then quote me as claming: "excellent evidence that small levels of nuclear radiation do not have harmful health effects,". I don't believe I ever wrote that. Can you point to the specific place in Common Dreams where I entered that claim? If not then it appears, as with Wayne, you find it helpful to put words in your opponents' mouths.
Ha ha hah ~~Finston~~.. You have often written that small doses of injested or inhaled amounts of cesium 137 are not a health hazard... Damn, are you sane?
You just posted this following comment today Finston... (" Based on that cancer risk we all face and the estimated additional risk of Cesium, I would say that 1 microcurie is not a "hazard"). Don't you know what you write from one minute to the next?
And your comments' and your sidekick ~~Jonh Lanetta's~~, that cesium 137, which has a lalf life of 30 years, (suddenly reverts) to only 70 or 100 days once it enters someones body, is sheer lying nonsense.
All you are doing is supporting the nuclear agenda, "shilling" for them.. Whether you are paid to do so or are just not intelligent and don't have anything better to occupy your time and keyboard. If you and Lanetta are not paid shills for the nuclear industy, you need help. .
The National Park Service, lists the Grand Canyon as 5.45 trillion cubic yards. We could fill a portion of it and open it to developers. I am sure that would be a job creator. Perhaps plant a prison on top of it. Or perhaps fill the cracks in the Washington Monument with a slurry of radioactive mud.
I thnk of this:__ Radioactive poisons, such as cesium 137, plutonium, etc, which have been airborne, do not just settle on the ground. They enter homes, office buildings, food markets, banks, vehicles, they become trapped in clothing.
The poisons settle on roof tops and whenever the wind blows them, they are in the air again and may be inhaled by the unwary, who cannot detect (microscopic sized) isotopes of cesium 137, any more than one can detect pollen from an olive tree, or individual isotopes of oxygen.
Valuable topsoil can be scraped up and stored away someplace, like dumping it into the Pacific Ocean, but that won't help to clean up the trillion upon trillions of deadly isotopes that haven't landed on that scraped up soil... Then after scraping up the soil, what happens next year and the year after, until when?__ The poisons are still spewing out from the melted down nuclear power plant.
Are the Japanese going to dig up paved roads, parking lots, stone walls, houses, office buildings, hospitals, schools, and cut down all of their trees an shrubery, etc? They have found very high levels of radioactive poisons on fields of rice... What happens to the water that rice grows in, the irreplacable soil in all of those so very important crop fields? __ And the cry, "No More Fukushia's"? __ In our dreams.
No,,, they won't do that,, and so they are screwed... So are all of us.
Some great developments have occurred utilizing mushroom mycelium introduced into the toxic ground where it stands. Scraping it away is bad news, as it releases the dangerous particles again.
They body absorbs the radioactive particles because they resemble the natural mineral, we've not evolved to identify the difference yet. However, if you are full of minerals, the body will not be so inclined. And brown seaweeds (sodium alginate) escort it out safely.
Still, it only takes one in the wrong spot. Cancer is no fun. We can do without nuclear power plants. Too risky for the earths inhabitants. Hideous way to boil water.
Invest in seaweed!
Why is the Japanese government trying to raise money to clean this up, are they telling us that the Japanese people have to subsidize the nuclear industry for nuking them?
No news is good news!
-30-
They are going to dig it up and put it --- where???
Those posters in the photo are remarkable designs. If anyone knows how to get one, or has located a pdf of either of those posters, please post it! I see one of posters of the electrical 'nuke' plug's cord forming a skull was also turned into a t-shirt. I looked for these items online and could not find them...
The ever elusive quest for that valuable real estate known as "Away" is still underway in Japan. They just want to scrap that shit up and send it away. Better yet, they could process it into ammunition that the US can use in its current wars and planned wars. We have a good track record with depleted uranium.
TEPCO paid dividends until this accident - those funds should be recovered.
Japanese people seem not to have heard of such clawback. Typical of foul industrial media: support taking profits, but making the public pay for gross Capitalism's mistakes...