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The Japanese really screwed nuclear power from a PR standpoint, just when we should be going all-in on it.
by PunksATawnyFill 7y ago
The Japanese really screwed nuclear power from a PR standpoint, just when we should be going all-in on it.
- ajna91 7y agoWhile the handful of Fukushima related injuries are tragic, they pale in comparison to the thousands of injuries/deaths directly caused by pollution by traditional plants, not to mention climate change.
- Grue3 7y agoOn the other hand it might be an opportunity to prove that a nuclear disaster (even in an outdated reactor and the worst case scenario of the largest tsunami ever) isn't all that bad. Instead of leaving it alone, there's an active effort to clean up the damage completely, and it might just work. JR East has just announced that limited express train from Tokyo to Sendai that goes right through the exclusion zone (within 1.5 km of Fukushima Dai-Ichi) will be relaunched by the end of the year (currently it stops at Iwaki). The methods used to remove radiation around the railway are quite interesting (replacing the soil, walls of trees to prevent contamination by wind-blown particles etc.)