Japan has been given the okay by UN to dump radioactive waste water into the ocean, but nearby countries are protesting that its unsafe. Is it unsafe? Is it safe?
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It ain’t safe. Nuclear energy ain’t safe. There will always be mistakes. And with private companies involved in PowerGen then the profit motive will always cause corners to be cut.
Fukushima was supposed to be safe. It was designed to withstand earthquake and tsunami but human beings designed it. You can’t anticipate everything. Nobody considered placement of the auxiliary power units.
Next designs will handle the problems Fukushima encountered and the next incident will be caused by something else. But there WILL be the next incident. And the one after that.
They have asked for permission to release some radioactive waste into the sea. Because their shareholders are squeaking about the on-going cost.
They’ve been collecting the water in tanks ever since the disaster and it must be very expensive. They may even have run out of room for more tanks by now but financial pressure doesn’t make the waste less toxic.
Gravity will settle the radioactive particles out of the water being released and it will eventually concentrate on the sea floor. Right there where the fish live. In hundreds of years everyone will have forgotten Fukushima and wonder why you get cancer from eating sea life caught offshore.
Fanboys brigade threads like this one and do their tiresome whatabout fossil fuels bs. It is true that fossil fuels contribute negatively to the planet, but when a coal-powered power station has an issue you don’t need to evacuate a thirty-mile area for ever.
The truth is that nuclear is not safe. When it goes wrong it produces problems that will linger for a thousand generations.
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