Solid Waste & Recycling magazine (Part of the EcoLog Environmental Resources Group, “Canada’s leading publisher of print and electronic environmental, occupational health and safety, workers’ compensation news, legislation and compliance solutions – Subscribers include environmental health and safety managers, engineers, executives and lawyers in all industry sectors and government”), Dec 11, 2014 (emphasis added): [After a quarter-century, this will be] my last article written as Editor of HazMat Management magazine [and] Solid Waste & Recycling magazine… [I] will no longer preside over the day-to-day editing and management of these publications Instead of a long article about what transpired in 2014 and what may be ahead, I’m going to offer readers three items… that have made a deep impression on me recently; these are “must watch” items for anyone interested in helping our species avoid peril from environmental degradation The deteriorating status of things at the destroyed nuclear plant at Fukushima, Japan… you have an obligation, really, to be aware of conditions there [There is a] very real and present threat from the… highly radioactive… destroyed cores of the reactors, as well as things like the storage of contaminated water in hastily-built, rusting containers This is serious stuff… [there was] an actual meltdown of the reactors — real China Syndrome stuff — as had been assumed would never likely happen in a modern reactor The situation is exponentially more dire than Chernobyl [Workers must] remove the rods for safe containment without having them contact one another and trigger a fire, the consequences of which would be unimaginable — We’re talking mass extinction around the world, especially in the northern hemisphere Yet most people have forgotten the situation and think of it only as a local Japanese problem — It’s only a matter of time before another earthquake or tidal wave triggers such an event, and these rods will remain volatile for centuries
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 15:26:08 +0000
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