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Fukushima's impact is only beginning, as remediation is still ongoing, and the resources for remediation (room in the tanks for storing contaminated water) are
by forgotmypw17 5y ago
Fukushima's impact is only beginning, as remediation is still ongoing, and the resources for remediation (room in the tanks for storing contaminated water) are running out this year.
By the way, what's the point of comparing Fukushima to something else terrible?
>A screening program a year later in 2012 found that more than a third (36%) of children in Fukushima Prefecture have abnormal growths in their thyroid glands.
I think that's hardly comparable to coal.
- dzikimarian 5y agoIndeed hardly comparable. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/reliance-on-coal-linked-with-lung-cancer-incidence/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/reliance-... Coal is much bigger killer, just too slow to make for good news story.
- morelisp 5y ago> By the way, what's the point of comparing Fukushima to something else terrible? Because in Germany the concrete choice 10-15 years ago was between developing nuclear, or burning lignite now and importing gas from oligarchies later. These were the only two options on table which were politically and technically feasible. (And then Fukushima made nuclear no longer politically feasible. And now it's also too late to be technically feasible.)
- morelisp 5y ago> A screening program a year later in 2012 found that more than a third (36%) of children in Fukushima Prefecture have abnormal growths in their thyroid glands. As an aside, what is the base rate? In all the reporting on this number I've not been able to find it. (Only that the base rate among adults is around 50%, which may or may not be comparable.)