This section refutes claims that geological disposal is impossible in Japan by explaining volcanic geology and plate tectonics, and criticizes fear-mongering rhetoric that distorts facts and misleads the public toward national decline.

2016-03-16

There is no reason to deliberately select hot spring areas for geological disposal, and the claim is utterly exasperating.
Leading the nation astray through deception.
He claims, with apparent confidence, that if one digs four hundred meters in Japan hot springs would gush out, and that because Japan does not have bedrock as solid as Finland’s, the same approach is impossible.
However, hot springs emerge only in very limited areas where magma reservoirs approach close to the surface.
Moreover, the Earth’s crust is tens of kilometers thick, and hot springs do not appear so easily.
There is no reason whatsoever to deliberately choose such hot spring regions for geological disposal.
This is truly astonishing.
The assertion that Japan has no solid bedrock is also entirely false, and there are many candidate sites in Japan that meet the conditions for geological disposal.
Plate tectonics and volcanology have made remarkable advances in recent years.
Looking at the Japanese archipelago, volcanoes can be seen aligned in linear patterns, and areas that avoid these lines are considered stable ground suitable for disposal.
The problem is that anti-nuclear activists rush into candidate sites and carry out obstruction activities, making it difficult for the government to disclose locations.
The town of Toyo in Kochi Prefecture is a prime example.
Regardless of one’s stance for or against nuclear power, geological disposal is necessary, yet even this is obstructed by opponents.
Such contradictions should be criticized, but Mr. Koizumi is merely jumping on the bandwagon of the opposition.
With superficial, hollow words devoid of substance, he distorts facts, misleads the public, and guides the nation in the wrong direction.
Mr. Koizumi, who shamelessly displays ignorance and lack of study, can only be described as a mass of senile harm and no longer has any qualification to speak on nuclear power issues.
Narabayashi Tadashi was born in Tokyo in 1952, completed a master’s degree in nuclear engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology Graduate School in 1978, and specializes in reactor engineering, with research themes including reactor safety, nuclear-powered spacecraft, and global environment and energy.