In the 12 years since the meltdowns, Tepco’s disaster response efforts, always heralded as fixes, have been a series of hugely expensive failures: the “advanced” wastewater filter system “ALPS” has failed; the buried “ice wall” groundwater barrier has failed; containers made for the radioactive sludge produced by ALPS have failed; and plans to deal with millions of tons of collected debris -- now kept in plastic bags — are being fiercely resisted by Japanese citizens.
Nuke fanboys always like to cite Fukushima as proof that nuclear technology is safe, just because luckily there weren’t many stretch casualties. They completely ignore that this disaster is still ongoing and no closer to a solution than it was ten years ago.