Decontaminating nuclear radioactivity.

[inchy14]

Not in your lifetime

Hi Alex....

 

[Blue Potato]

Fair comment.

I did wonder why a reactor was green lit at fukushima. I know japan as a whole doesnt have the best reputation with natural disasters, but there mustve been somewhere a bit more secure and maybe not on the pacific coast.

As well as the safety concern already mentioned, nuclear reactors are almost always located on the coast or by rivers due to the abundance of (free) water available for the plant to use for cooling purposes

 

[west didsblue]

Sort of like air travel in that it's statisticaly very safe, but on the very rare occasions it goes wrong it's catastrophic.

Even if you add up all the fatalities that were as a result of Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three mile island and every other nuclear mishap (of which there are very few) they are a tiny fraction of the numbers killed due to coal or oil fired power generation.

 

[Marvin]

Even if you add up all the fatalities that were as a result of Chernobyl, Fukushima, Three mile island and every other nuclear mishap (of which there are very few) they are a tiny fraction of the numbers killed due to coal or oil fired power generation.

The biggest problem associated with nuclear power is waste disposal. We do not have a storage solution. Deep geological disposal is likely safe but no community / council will give the go-ahead. Much of the waste from reactors and decommissioning sits largely in very old pools at Windscale whilst they wait for a permanent solution. So there are risks there to deal with for which we have yet to find a solution.

 

[denislawsbackheel]

Here is a fascinating article on the dilemma facing us around storage of nuclear waste.

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[aguero93:20]

Here is a fascinating article on the dilemma facing us around storage of nuclear waste.

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Just use a universal language to warn them off. That picture of the Liverpool fan should do it.