Let’s say electricity is pizza. In this case, Tepco is the pizza delivery boy. and this boy has been forced to put out the fire in the pizza shop for 2 years and 6 months. IAEA is distributing the pizza shop flyer on the street. He never come back. He can’t do anything anyway. The shop is (actually) owned by the government. The oven is made by GE, Toshiba, Hitachi etc.. This is obviously beyond what the delivery boy can do. However, because he has already been in charge of fire fighting for long, now nobody knows where the bucket is, where the hose is, where the water (poisonous) flowed. This is making it more difficult to accept international help. However, even if they accept the international help, it is very limited what they can do because there is no technology to settle it down. We must invent some technology to put it out as soon as possible. This is what the world needs. but the public opinion is focusing on the nationalization of the decommissioning project as if there were already the technology, and the nationalization would solve everything. I don’t know if we are heading in the right direction. Generally and historically speaking, nationalization is the magic to make all kinds of the projects beautifully fail. They say nationalization is inevitable because Tepco is in the serious shortage of budget. However, though I watch and hear all the Fukushima news for 24/7, I haven’t heard “so how much of money is enough to decommission Fukushima.” I’m not saying Fukushima decommissioning shouldn’t be nationalized. I’m just saying we should carefully consider the the side effects of nationalization without the technology development. I think these are the potential side effects. 1. Japanese government is likely to introduce the new tax such as “Fukushima decommissioning tax” to make the infinite amount of budget. 2. Japanese government may send ordinary Japan residents to Fukushima for the shortage of Fukushima workers. 3. Disclosure of the plant situation would be strictly restricted and it would be even harder to know what is going on. 4. Neighboring countries would request the government (=Victimized Japanese people) compensation. I can’t find the reasons why they wouldn’t do these. In the end, they may make the international body to take initiative of Fukushima decommissioning project. but nationalization would be the next phase to go. All of these 4 side effects are crucial. Before we yell at Tepco (The delivery boy), we need to think well.
Posted on: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 09:26:19 +0000
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