Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude earthquake off coast

Re:Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude ea... by ori_b on Friday October 25, 2013 @02:53PM (#6613714)

If Fukushima were Chernobyl, it would have needed a sarcophagus. However, it was already designed with containment that worked, and as a result, a sarcophagus wouldn't have changed anything. In fact, building a large concrete structure over the reactor core would probably have complicated cleanup efforts by limiting access.

In effect, Fukushima already had a sarcophagus integrated into the structure of the building in 1971, 6 years before Chernobyl even started running.

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Re:Tsunami advisory in northern Japan after 7.1 magnitude ea... by jlgreco on Friday October 25, 2013 @03:04PM (#6613792)

Absolutely; hence "if Fukushima were Chernobyl".

I don't mean to suggest that Japan should build a sarcophagus; I only mean to give an idea of the sort of timescale for significant engineering tasks that the Soviets were working with. They slammed it into high gear pretty rapidly.

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