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Any HNer knowledgeable on the matter shed light into how bad this can get?

• deleted 13y ago
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  • veidr 13y ago
    That's true, but these containment tanks are right next to the ocean. So pretty much everything that leaks is going into the ocean. And they aren't going to be gone by the time the next tsunami hits, so I think it is roughly (and with their level of ineptitude and deceit, roughly is as good as we are gonna get) reasonable to think that it's all (300,000 tons of radioactive water and counting) going into the Pacific at some point...
    • SuperChihuahua 13y ago
      I deleted it because I forgot the water leaking out, but here's the original comment because it might be interesting. "If I've understood everything correctly, it can't be as bad as the Chernobyl disaster. The only reason to why the radioactive material spread so far during the Chernobyl disaster was because the reactor core consisted of graphite, the graphite caught fire, and the dangerous material rose to the sky." @jjsz The text is the same. What happened was that I deleted the comment before I saw that someone replied to it, and then it looked stupid with a good reply to a deleted comment.
      • jjsz 13y ago
        Completely changing the parent comment like that and making this comment on a child doesn't make sense to me. You should have added another parent comment, or added an "edit: __" in the original comment.
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• reirob 13y ago
  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232104 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6232104