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Fukushima Nuclear Waste Mess is by No Means Solved

8 points by mimixco 7y ago

mkesper 7y ago
NUCLEAR PHYSICIST Hiroaki Koide has pointed out that although eight years have passed, there is still more than one million tons of irradiated water which still hasn’t been treated. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)’s “handling” method for this situation was to build a thousand sewage tanks to store the sewage. But as space was limited and the number of sewage tanks was also limited. As such, Koide asserts, “TEPCO will be compelled to release these waters into the sea in the near future.” [1] Moreover, with regards to the core meltdown of the reactor, the melted fuel rods remain unaccounted for.
netsharc 7y ago
At the top of that page: > nuclear-news: The News That Matters about the Nuclear Industry Fukushima Chernobyl Mayak Three Mile Island Atomic Testing Radiation Isotope Yeah... seems legit.
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781 7y ago
According to HN this is complete and utter FUD. We need more nuclear energy, and we need it now.
- mimixco 7y ago
  HN is very one-sided on a number of topics and in no way represents the sum total of the world's knowledge.
hanniabu 7y ago
This is the reality that nuclear power proponents seem to be content in ignoring. Can we build safe nuclear power plants? Yes. Does money, greed, pride, and stupidity triumph in the end? Yes.
- erentz 7y ago
  Nuclear power proponents don’t let emotion and fear get in the way of the facts. Nuclear power kills far far (far far far) less people than other forms of power generation. When it goes wrong it’s super scary looking, terrifying really, but when you dig into the statistics of these accidents they wind up being less scary than is usually made out. It helps to learn about how nuclear power plants work, and visit one if you ever get the chance, once you get your head around it it becomes a lot less scary. For example take a look at the fatalities table here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities PS: A good starting point to start questioning the anti-nuclear narrative is a documentary called Pandora’s Promise, which is on Prime for free. Or perhaps this TED talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciStnd9Y2ak https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciStnd9Y2ak
  - hanniabu 7y ago
    I don't see anybody rushing to move back to Chernobyl. There's more damage than immediate death. That environment is lost. It contaminates ground water, soil, the wildlife, the air. You're willfully ignoring the reality and taking the hopeful ideals.

8 points by mimixco 7y ago

NUCLEAR PHYSICIST Hiroaki Koide has pointed out that although eight years have passed, there is still more than one million tons of irradiated water which still hasn’t been treated. The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)’s “handling” method for this situation was to build a thousand sewage tanks to store the sewage. But as space was limited and the number of sewage tanks was also limited. As such, Koide asserts, “TEPCO will be compelled to release these waters into the sea in the near future.” [1] Moreover, with regards to the core meltdown of the reactor, the melted fuel rods remain unaccounted for.

netsharc 7y ago

At the top of that page: > nuclear-news: The News That Matters about the Nuclear Industry Fukushima Chernobyl Mayak Three Mile Island Atomic Testing Radiation Isotope Yeah... seems legit.

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781 7y ago

According to HN this is complete and utter FUD. We need more nuclear energy, and we need it now.

mimixco 7y ago
HN is very one-sided on a number of topics and in no way represents the sum total of the world's knowledge.

hanniabu 7y ago

This is the reality that nuclear power proponents seem to be content in ignoring. Can we build safe nuclear power plants? Yes. Does money, greed, pride, and stupidity triumph in the end? Yes.

erentz 7y ago
Nuclear power proponents don’t let emotion and fear get in the way of the facts. Nuclear power kills far far (far far far) less people than other forms of power generation. When it goes wrong it’s super scary looking, terrifying really, but when you dig into the statistics of these accidents they wind up being less scary than is usually made out. It helps to learn about how nuclear power plants work, and visit one if you ever get the chance, once you get your head around it it becomes a lot less scary. For example take a look at the fatalities table here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_accidents#Fatalities PS: A good starting point to start questioning the anti-nuclear narrative is a documentary called Pandora’s Promise, which is on Prime for free. Or perhaps this TED talk: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciStnd9Y2ak https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ciStnd9Y2ak
- hanniabu 7y ago
  I don't see anybody rushing to move back to Chernobyl. There's more damage than immediate death. That environment is lost. It contaminates ground water, soil, the wildlife, the air. You're willfully ignoring the reality and taking the hopeful ideals.