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加來道雄教授は、CNNのインタビュアーに福島第一原発事故の現状を聞かれると、いまだに時限爆弾を抱えた危険な状態で、爪だけで崖にぶら下がっているのと同じ状況であると再び強調した。海外のニュースでもほとんど伝えられなくなったため、米国人は福島原発は、危機を乗り越えたか、問題は全て解決されたと思っているらしい。
しかし、加來教授は、ここ２週間で、福島原発の状況が悪化していることが明らかになったと語った。これまでは、部分的なメルトダウンが３基の原子炉でおこっているといわれていたが、実際は完全なメルトダウンどころかメルトスルーとなっている。放射線の量もこれまでは最小限度に収まっているといわれてきたが、実際は、チェルノブイリの放射線量を超える勢いだ。避難範囲に関しても、最初は原発から２０キロ以内のみとされていたが、現在では、避難範囲の外側に４箇所のホットスポットが見つかり、３万４千人の子供たちは、学校に行くとき、線量計を持たされている。
IAEA、日本政府、東電は事態を過小評価して発表していたが、実際は、真実の状況を知っていたはずだと加來教授は断言している。それにもかかわらず、ハッピー・フェイスを装っていたと語る。
チェルノブイリの原発事故では、６０万人の労働者が現地に送られ、一年間の許容放射線量に値する放射線をたったの１０分間で浴びたという。１人数分間だけ作業して、ゴルバチョフ大統領からメダルをもらったという。しかし、日本は、この事故をどのように解決するかいまだにわからないまま、途方にくれている。汚染水を海に放出して海洋の環境を著しく破壊しているが、いまだに何の手立てもない。
今の政府には、この事故を解決しようとするリーダーシップも、知恵もない。小出教授がさまざまな案をだしているが、予算がかかりすぎるという理由で却下。今の政府は、日本国民の健康よりも、原発や東電の存続の方が大切なようだ。
加來教授は、チェルノブイリでは、事故処理に１年かかったが、日本では、放射線の放出が止まってからその汚染が完全に除去されるには５０年から１００年かかるだろうと予測している。しかしながら、放射線はいまだに放出され続けており、事故処理の状況に達するのは、まだまだ先であろう。
また、加來教授は、チェルノブイリでは原発１基の事故処理に２千億ドル(約１６兆円）かかったが、日本の場合は、３基が完全にメルトダウンしている上に、いまだに事故が長引いており、２０基分(約３２０兆円）の事故処理費用がかかるのではないかと推測している。
CNN: “They lied to us” Fukushima Radiation Release Comparable To Chernobyl, 100% Meltdown In 3 Reactors
from Alexander Higgins Blog
Posted by Alexander Higgins - June 22, 2011 at 7:00 am
CNN: Then Fukushima. The disaster that won’t go away. Nobody is paying attention. But is the nuclear meltdown more dangerous than ever? [...] Michio Kaku on the biggest industrial catastrophe in history. [...]
CNN: Do they have control of the situation at that site?
Kaku: NO. It is still a ticking time bomb. Realize that after the big Sumatra tsunami, 90 days, 3 months after that there was a huge aftershock. If they have another aftershock, and they are not in cold shutdown yet until next year, the accident could start all over again. Its like hanging by your finger nails. Yeah, its stable but you are hanging by your finger nails.
CNN: Americans think this crisis is over, or some even think that it is solved or it is contained. Its not. What’s happening right now.
Kaku: In the last two weeks, everything we knew about that accident has been turned upside down. We were told three partial melt downs, don’t worry about it. Now we know it was 100 percent core melt in all three reactors. [We were told that the] Radiation minimal that was released. Now we know it was comparable to radiation at Chernobyl. And as far as evacuation, [we were told], 12 miles and that is it. You don’t have to evacuate more than 12 miles. Now they find hotspots, 4 hot spots, outside the evacuation zone. 34,000 school children now have radiation badges when they go to school.
CNN: Kindergarteners with radiation badges.
Kaku: Down to 4 years of age. Can you imagine that? Kindergarten kids with radiation badges going to school. So all of the mythology of the accident has been turned upside down because the utility has finally fessed up to how severe this accident really was.
CNN: In your view, did they not know how bad it was or they knew and didn’t tell, or they were just completely blown away by the scope of the disaster?
Kaku: I am a physicists and we try to reconstruct the actual accidents in our computers given the feeble amount of information they gave use. We knew it was much more severe than they were saying, because radiation was coming out left and right. So in other words, they lied to us. They knew how much radiation was coming out. The knew how much core meltdown was taking place. But they tried to put a happy face on it.
CNN: As a reported within hours of the earthquake and Tsunami, with hours not even a day, there were already statements from the company and International Atomic Energy Association saying there had been safe shut down of all reactors and we know now of course in the end that simply wasn’t true. But from the very beginning they were trying to tell us that this was a safe situation.
Kaku: Within hours of the accident we now know it was like the keystone cops. People that are clueless, headless, just running around crazy, not knowing what to do. We can now reconstruct that accident minute by minute, hour by hour and we can see this chaos that erupted in the leadership ability.
CNN: What is happening to the people that are working there now.
Kaku: Well as you know workers are getting sent in and they are getting a years worth of radiation within just 10 minutes at a time. At Chernobyl 600,000 workers had to be mobilized. Each one going in for just a few minutes and each one getting a medal from Gorbachev.
CNN: This Will Be A Hundred Year Cleanup? How long with this take to cleanup in you view?
Kaku: 50 to 100 years.
CNN: And we are not there yet. We are not even to the point of talking about the cleanup yet because they haven’t stopped the reaction. It is still happening.
Kaku: Clean up hasn’t even started yet. They are not even looking at getting to cold shutdown until next year. Cold shutdown is when boiling stops. There is boiling water right there at the reactor releasing radiation into the environment and releasing radiation into gigantic vats.
CNN: How are they storing and disposing of this stuff?
Kaku: That is the killer [pun intended?] because we have all of these vats that are filling up now and they may have to dump it into the ocean again. At that point the Chinese, the Koreans, the fisherman they get up all in arms because there is so much damage [ to the reactor cores] that every time you put water [into the reactors to cool the fuel rods that are melting down] it just leaks right out again, highly radioactive, and it is filling up at the site right now.
CNN: So what do they do with it?
Kaku: Right now, they are just counting the gallons as they pile up desperately trying to bring more vats in but once they saturate they are going to have to dump and at that point it is another crisis.
CNN: Lets talk about the radiation in the environment, in the atmosphere. We have been told that it would be measurable but a miniscule amount on the US West Coast and around the world? Is that true?
Kaku: It is still minimal around the world [based on what we are being told from government reported radiation readings]. Most of the damage is concentrated within 20 to 50 miles of the reactor. That is where we have the hotspots, that is where we have 20 times normal amounts of [annual adult] radiation [limits] in school yards outside of the evacuation zone.
Kaku: But in New York City, [based off government released radiation measurements] you can actually see it in the milk. You can actually see it has iodine, 131, actually spiked a little bit in our milk in New York City, but it is very small.
CNN: Just even hearing that, though, even hearing that you can detect it, that there’s a catastrophe, the worst industrial catastrophe in history, we can see it in milk in New York, that’s frightening.
Kaku: That’s right. This could be the grand daddy of all industrial accidents topping Chernobyl at $200 billion, topping the Gulf Oil Spill at $15 billion, topping the Columbia and Challenger disasters out in space at about $10 billion. This could be the world record holder for an industrial accident.
Kaku: Realize Chernobyl was one core’s worth radiation causing a $200 billion accident and it is still on going. Here we have 20 cores worth of radiation. Three totally melted, one damaged and the [rest in] spent fuel pumps, 20 cores worth of highly radioactive materials. [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1E_avHKLvs&feature=player_embedded
