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Kaku equates workers to the little Dutch boy, trying to plug a dike leak but finding others. However, until they find the primary source, radiation contamination will keep spreading.
Moreover, "(t)ime is not on their side. The longer it takes to hit rock bottom, the more the danger of evacuations of workers and damage to" the entire area's economy. In addition, severe aftershocks persisting for months risk more damage causing greater contamination.
"It's also a Catch 22: they need to flood the cores with water, but this water becomes contaminated and flows out to the environment. Damned if they do, and damned it they don't."
Under the best case scenario, "(w)orkers have a long, long way to go....I get a headache just thinking of all the measures that have to be taken just to reach rock bottom and then to begin clean-up operations. Meanwhile the clock is ticking," exacerbating a nightmare without end.
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Japan's Asahi Shimbun reported a Hiroshima and Kyoto Universities' study showing radioactivity in soil samples beyond the 30 km evacuation zone is up to 400 times above normal, saying:
"The predicted changes in the level of radiation at the ground surface were calculated after analyzing the amounts of eight kinds of radioactive materials found in the soil and taking into consideration the half-lives of each material."
"The study results are considered more accurate than the study conducted by the science ministry, which only released information concerning two types of radioactive material."
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