[RFC] One year Later... (It's about time we got started)

[Black Aeronaut]

This might or might not be Dartz's feeling - it's how I expressed something similar:

On
the whole, the Convention takes a hands-off policy toward Earthbound
nations. ... Many idealistic factions (such as the Senshi) prefer to let
people solve their own problems, providing assistance only when it has
been requested. Pragmatic factions (such as the Jossies) point out that
the Convention does not have the resources, the ability, or the training
to solve humanity's problems.

And that's my starting position in this discussion...

Okay, 'humanity's problems', taken in the context that is given here, doesn't preclude natural disasters.  It's more of a "You made your bed now sleep in it" deal.  We aren't haring off to resolve the issues in North Korea, Burma, Iran, and Syria.  The only way this disaster is in any way man-made is that measures taken to prevent it from getting as bad as it did were vastly overwhelmed... and the Japanese hardly do safety measures by halves.
And honestly... I can't see us not helping.  Would any one of you be so cold as to not go down there when there are people who were going about their day, and suddenly find themselves dying in a wall of water?
If you guys really don't think it's a good idea to for the Fen in general to help with the rebuilding efforts, then that's fine.  Ben himself doesn't need to speak for the Convention and will stick around for a while, doing what he's good at: working with the two hands his momma gave him.
And Rob, I knew going in that there was not going to be Roughrider's involved.  'No fancy paid-for-by-OGJ base on 36 Atalantae. No Magnificent Midnight' indeed.  'Just Ben, Gina, and the Bullet Boy Express.'  Damn straight.  In fact, I'd be willing to say he doesn't even have his biomod yet.
I can see this keeping Ben occupied for a good six months or so, just running around, lending a helping hand wherever one is needed, and (with constant drilling by Gina) becoming really fluent in Japanese.  By the way, I won't rub anyone's faces in it if they decide not to get involved.  It'll just be a foot-note that for some time in 2011 Ben was occupied with the rescue and recovery efforts in Japan, which would be part of why they love him so much down there.

Maybe
the Convention could propose Japan to create a purpose build transporter
that can take one of the wrecked reactors including their concrete
ground below it into orbit to drop it into the Sun? I don't think
Fenspace has a transporter that large (including its freight-door), but
they could build one, which at least would solve the problem how to get
rid of a part of the problem.

It would be a major effort for Fenspace to do so (and some Daneverse
people would have to be involved to make sure the Fen don't try to
"steal" the nuclear waste) and it doesn't handwave away the radiation in
the surrounding area and the damage by the Earthquake/Tsunami, but it
could help a lot in long term.

Sounds more like Unreal Estate.  Which would be very effective at solving all the immediate problems... but that presents a new problem.  Once in vacuum there isn't much matter around to slow down that neutron radiation that the Fen-tech is apparently vulnerable to.  Those reactors will still need to be contained before you can move them into space like that.  Fen tech can probably be used to do that before moving them, but it will most likely take time to do.
In fact, seeing Grover's Corners going up will probably be the inspiration needed for that operation.  It'll probably even soften the political fallout: the US would still be draconian about it and Japanese would be sympathetic, but at the same time eager to put the same techniques to use to remove God knows how many hundreds of metric tons of radioactive waste and contaminated debris from their environment - cheaply and effectively.