Fukushima's triple nuclear meltdown continues polluting the Pacific Ocean despite herculean efforts with robotic cranes and water drenching to keep dangerously damaged nuclear cores from boiling and exploding once again releasing radioactivity into the wind.
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Temporary storage tanks for radioactive ground water pumped from melted-down nuclear reactor #3 at Fukushima. Some of them are leaking radioactivity into the Pacific Ocean. When or how to stop this ground water problem is unknown.
"The Fukushima site is now dotted with hundreds of them (radioactive water storage tanks). But the water leakage is so severe that they are having to add a new tank every two to three days. Within two years they will have run out of room."
Like other nuclear meltdown disasters the cost will be astronomical with the permanent
solution still up in the air.
For example, Chernobyl's melted core entombment is still not complete more than 26 years after the world's worst nuclear plant disaster. The cost of entombment so far is is more than $2 billion in contributions from some 40 countries still due to be completed some time in the next three years. Entombment is just step one in the process of final decommissioning of the melted-down radioactive cores. No one can predict when this will be finalized.
Estimates of the decommissioning of Fukushima amount to untold $billions. "Kazumasa Iwata, president of the Japan Center for Economic Research, gave the estimate on Tuesday. He said the costs of the accident could range from nearly 71 to 250 billion dollars. The figure includes 54 billion to buy up all land within 20 kilometers of the plant, 8 billion for compensation payments to local residents, and 9 to 188 billion to scrap the plant's reactors."
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