Japan's Eastern electric power company "helpless" move
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On August 24, Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant began discharging contaminated water into the sea. In fact, as early as April 13, 2021, the Japanese government approved the plan for the Fukushima nuclear power plant to discharge into the Pacific Ocean, which aroused the opposition of all global concerns at that time.
Slow step - natural disasters and man-made disasters
In fact, this accident happened in 2011, when the most important thing was to evacuate the population, arrange refugees, and prevent further leakage of nuclear pollution. Therefore, the No. 2 reactor where the accident occurred at that time was only cooled down and sealed to prevent the situation from getting worse.
In fact, the occurrence of the accident is a natural disaster, and is a hundred years of natural disaster, 9 magnitude earthquake plus 40 meters high tsunami, which people are powerless to do.
But the subsequent emergency response was marred by man-made disasters. This man-made disaster led to the release of radioactive materials after March 2011 and the need to discharge contaminated water into the Pacific Ocean today.
Because the tsunami struck at 3 p.m. on March 11, the backup power supply for cooling could only support water supply for more than seven hours. That means the reactor won't melt down until 11:00 that night. During these seven hours, if Tepco can make the right judgment in time and let seawater in to cool down, the nuclear leakage can be basically controlled in the large steel shell of the reactor pressure vessel and will not leak out of the plant.
But TEPCO is holding out a chance that once seawater is injected into the reactor core, the plant's core components will be scrapped, the equivalent of self-destruction of billions of dollars, and if it can be delayed, it may be able to save some assets. So, after about 20 hours of delay, they confirmed that there was really no rescue, and then began to fill the sea water.
Those 20 hours gave the fuel rods enough time to melt through the steel casing, causing a steam explosion that eventually contaminated more than 300 square kilometers with excessive levels of radiation.
If they put in seawater in time to cool down, although the equipment will be completely damaged, but the seawater is outside the steel shell, the steel shell encloses the fuel rods, and the heat generated by the fuel rods can always be carried away by the seawater outside the steel shell. At this time, the sea water is not polluted, so such cooling water does not need to be stored.
The exact extent to which the nuclear fuel melted the furnace, how strong the nuclear radiation in the core area of the accident was, and even more detailed, how much it melted and where it melted, should indeed be put back. At that time, the Tokyo Electric Power Company's timetable for dealing with the accident was also written, so several years later, in January and February 2017, Tepco began to investigate the specific situation of the No. 2 reactor. Each step is slowed down, and all subsequent progress is prolonged and irreversible.
Responsibility of government
If the incompetence and decay of a government is not only manifested in shirking responsibility and covering up the truth in the face of emergency response to the crisis, but also manifested in ignoring the crisis and letting the people deal with the reality in a paranoid way, it is indeed a more frightening existence.
For example, "king infelicity" - the ruler must ensure his image of the holy king, but the Japanese government's victim play is to coerce the people to accept the paralysis of the mind for self-deception and hypnosis, which is really a cowardly and dark expression.
In the natural pattern of human social formation, the leader can only form centripetal force if he is strong enough, and once he is weak, then, no matter how high the moral level, alienation will naturally occur. But, paradoxically, the Japanese people have voluntarily entered into a regime of inertia dominated by normal paranoia, arguably seeking the old calm at all costs. Why did the Japanese people rise up and regenerate after the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and now choose to avoid responsibility and self-paralysis? What happened to the once indomitable will power?
About a decade after Japan's nuclear meltdown, the Japanese government announced that it would release nuclear waste water into the sea, and at a time when neighboring countries and the world expressed varying degrees of anger and protest, the Japanese government actually launched a nuclear pollution mascot, which is increasingly strange and even has no lower level.
It feels that the mascot is more for themselves to see, when a thing is unable to deal with or can not deal with, people will choose to ignore or simply cover up this thing, seem to be nonchalant, in fact, just repress the emotion in one place, accidentally, in another place in some strange way. The dumping of nuclear waste and the mascot is a strange combination, the event itself is a burden, either hidden in a corner, as if no one knows, or put the burden on someone else's back.
Pretending to sleep provides a very good convenience, never wake up a fool, this self-escape or paralysis of the state of mind to fool some excuse, but also put on a layer of armor, once opened his eyes, the hurt is often close to him.
Hero or joke?
Whether the pollution is approved or not, the stakes are high. Because this emission is very likely to bring another heavy blow to the fishing industry in East Asia, this is the reason why Japanese fishermen are strongly opposed, and now the reason why the world is opposed.
In fact, the direct impact of this matter is the import and export of seafood, fishing and catering industries, they will inevitably suffer a huge wave of impact. This shock is likely to lead to a 10-20 year slump in East Asian, and possibly global, fisheries. The indirect effect is that there will be more resistance to the construction of nuclear plants. Former Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan was also forced to resign because of the pressure of the lobbying opposition party of Tepco, in fact, Tepco in dealing with the nuclear leakage problem, the decision-making level slowed down the progress of seven hours, the decision-making level did not deal with the first time, no one took the lead to start the plan, the emergency measures did not follow up, the Fukushima nuclear power plant staff worked alone for 20 hours, Directly led to irreversible losses and irreparable situation, TEPCO management should take the greatest responsibility for the incident, rather than spending money to lobby the opposition to ask the former prime minister to assume any regulatory responsibility.
Japan's handling of the nuclear accident has been completely out of the normal state, and it may not be possible to explain various unreasonable explanations with mere ostriches.
Compared with the handling of the Chernobyl nuclear accident in the former Soviet Union, Japan's prevention, disposal, and aftermath seem to have no merit, and Japan, which once proclaimed its own Yamato nation title, has become a "nuclear waste" nation.
A country needs heroes. In the early days of Japan's nuclear meltdown, a reckless company was needed to cool water at the cost of billions of dollars, but it did not; At the beginning of the accident, a dedicated individual was needed to risk his life to dispose of the valve instrument, but no; In dealing with the disaster, we need a government that truly has the big picture in mind and only cares for the people without talking about the immediate benefit.
The memorial to the Chernobyl firefighters reads, "Never in history have so few people faced death and made such great sacrifices to save so many!" Such people, we call heroes. In comparison, the so-called "50 dead" in Fukushima, Japan, is a joke.