Fukushima: IAEA Final Report on Radiactive Contaminated Site: Put it in a landfill (!!!)

3 12 2011

Unbeleivable! Cryptome has the PDF doc.

The nuke-industry-friendly International Atomic Energy Agency put out a Final Report on what to do with all the radiated debris, soil, dead animals etc, etc, around the smoldering Fukushima plant. It’s called Remediation of Large Contaminated Areas”. Emphasis on “remediation” and “large“.  The whole report focuses on trash volume reduction and how to smash it all down and spread it around Japan. They posit the deconamination of the radiation as a simple recycling-sorting task(!!!).

See for yourself –

   http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/focus/fukushima/final_report151111.pdf

from page 60:

The unconditionally cleared material can be considered for recycling and reuse  or conveniently managed as municipal solid waste utilizing infrastructure for transportation, handling, treatment for volume reduction and disposal in municipal solid waste landfills.

…. then they go on to talk mostly about volume reduction (trash masher) and simple  wash-off tecniques to clean up the more contaminated soil etc. Then you just bag it up! Store it anywhere!

picture on p. 65:

  page 60 photos

(We’d like to know what the cardboard sign on the left says! “Free Potting Soil” ?)  warning sign or No Parking sign  →

On the bright side – At least they didn’t have Dr. Yamashita on the list of contributors at the end of the doc.