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2011-03-31 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

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Posted by anon1 2011-03-31 18:51|| || Front Page|| [11134 views ] Top

#1 "radiation leaks will be ongoing and it could take 50 to 100 years before the nuclear fuel rods have completely cooled and been removed."

Meanwhile they are pouring water in, it's then draining away so they pour more in. SO highly radioactive water is seeping into god knows where.

They are doing their best, bless their hearts. They are trying, but the problem is that it's just too poisonous to get in there and clean it up quickly.

This in a developed country with hardly any corruption problems. Not like a China or an Indonesia or an India.

The problem with nuclear power is that the radioactive material is deadly dangerous for millions of years. That is deep time. My entire country has only had 200 years of being a modern country with roads. We've only had 120-odd years of electricity grids. Humans are not built for deep time. Most of us can't even look ahead 5 years and plan our lives.

Our societies cannot plan ahead more than 20 years and yet we have the arrogance to think we can safely use nuclear materials that are deadly poisonous for millions of years.

Chernobyl wasn't an earthquake, Fukushima wasn't communist incompetence. Every reactor that has a disaster will have a different reason - humans are fallible and so are all the systems we build.

We cannot be trusted with fission power. Maybe fusion if we can invent it but fission, no.

We should just go back to coal, gas and oil. Carbon dioxide has never been proved to cause climate change. Global warming was only ever a boogeyman invented as a non-tariff barrier for the developed world

Posted by anon1 2011-03-31 18:59|| 2011-03-31 18:59|| Front Page Top

#2 I have to agree that fission is a bit to iffy.

Posted by Water Modem 2011-03-31 19:12|| 2011-03-31 19:12|| Front Page Top

#3 I heard it was going to take a 1,000,000 years and all life on earth would be destroyed.

I also note that the two 'experts' cited in the article disagree with each other and one says something that sounds egregiously stupid:
"As the water leaks out, you keep on pouring water in, so this leak will go on for ever,"

Posted by SteveS 2011-03-31 19:46|| 2011-03-31 19:46|| Front Page Top

#4 sounds egregiously stupid

only to those not egregiously stupid

Posted by Frank G 2011-03-31 22:27|| 2011-03-31 22:27|| Front Page Top

#5 Predictions like this are always outlandish and then in ten or twenty years (or whatever but always long before the dire predictions) everything is fine when someone decides to look in on the anniversary or whatever.

Posted by rjschwarz 2011-03-31 22:39|| 2011-03-31 22:39|| Front Page Top

#6 How long did it take to clean up Nagasaki?

Posted by Free Radical 2011-03-31 23:03|| 2011-03-31 23:03|| Front Page Top

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