Japan** officially began yesterday to implement the plan to discharge Fukushima nuclear sewage into the sea, and it is reported that on the first day alone, more than 200 tons of nuclear sewage were discharged into the Pacific Ocean. Aerial photographs of ** show that the sea off the eastern coast of Japan has undergone a noticeable change, with a patch of sea water taking on a yellow color, in stark contrast to the normal sea water around it. This situation is worrying, because this is only the beginning of Japan's nuclear sewage discharge into the sea, and more nuclear sewage will be discharged in the future.
It is understood that Japan plans to emit 3 times in four times this year120,000 tons of nuclear wastewater, about 7,800 tons each time. According to TEPCO's estimates, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has a total of 1.34 million tons of nuclear wastewater, and it will take at least 30 years to discharge all of them into the sea.
However, this figure may still be an underestimate. Liu Xinhua, chief expert of the Nuclear and Radiation Safety Center of China's Ministry of Ecology and Environment, pointed out that the time for Japan's nuclear sewage to be discharged into the sea will actually be far more than 30 years. The reason for this is that the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant has not been completely shut down, and new nuclear wastewater is still being generated. This is because the operation of nuclear power plants relies on nuclear fission reactions, which require the continuous burning of atoms called fuel rods.
As long as the fuel rods are not extinguished, the nuclear power plant cannot stop operating, and nuclear sewage will continue to be generated. Japan's current practice is to use seawater to cool the fuel rods, but this process is very long and can take up to 30 years for the fuel rods to cool completely. That is, only then will Japan** be able to safely remove the fuel rods, the nuclear power plant can really be shut down, and the production of nuclear sewage can really stop. During this period, Japan was discharging nuclear sewage into the sea and creating nuclear sewage at the same time, and I don't know how long this cycle will last.
Since the root of the problem lies with the Fukushima nuclear power plant and the more than 30,000 tons of nuclear sewage stored in Japan, is there a way to solve the problem once and for all?In fact, as early as after the leakage of the Fukushima nuclear power plant in Japan, a group of experts in Russia who had dealt with Chernobyl put forward an extreme plan, that is, to use a hydrogen bomb to directly blow up the Fukushima nuclear power plant.
This scheme sounds crazy, but there is some truth to it. Japan's biggest problem now is that it is unable to clean up its nuclear reactors, stop the nuclear fission reaction of fuel rods, and prevent the production of nuclear wastewater. The idea of Russian experts is to end the Fukushima nuclear reaction with a more powerful nuclear response. As long as the yield of the hydrogen bomb is controlled and the reaction of the nuclear material is completely released, radioactive contamination can be avoided. In this way, Japan will not spend 30 years, but with a hydrogen bomb, and solve the problem.
Of course, there are many risks and uncertainties in this program, and Russia also has its own experience and expertise in the use of nuclear **, both military and civilian. For example, the Soviet Union once used a nuclear bomb to dig a reservoir that could store 6 million cubic meters of water. And now to deal with a Japanese nuclear power plant, perhaps, it is not a difficult task for Russia.
As for Japan, since it can do such a thing as discharging nuclear sewage into the sea, then we can also make a joke. Solving the problem with a nuclear ** like a hydrogen bomb is a professional counterpart for Russia, and for Japan, it may also be a "professional counterpart" experience, right?