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After a week of limited coverage of "unimaginable levels" of radiation inside the remains of collapsed Unit 2 at Fukushima[...], Nuclear-News.net reported February 11 that radiation levels are actually significantly higher than "unimaginable".
Continuous, intense radiation at 530 sieverts an hour (4 sieverts is a lethal level), was widely reported in early February 2017--as if this were a new phenomenon. It's not. Three reactors at Fukushima melted down during the earthquake-tsunami disaster on March 3, 2011, and the meltdowns never stopped. Radiation levels have been out of control ever since. As Fairewinds Energy Education noted in an email February 10:
Although this robotic measurement just occurred, this high radiation reading was anticipated and has existed inside the damaged Unit 2 atomic reactor since the disaster began nearly 6 years ago.... As Fairewinds has said for 6 years, there are no easy solutions because groundwater is in direct contact with the nuclear corium (melted fuel) at Fukushima Daiichi.
What's new (and not very new, at that) is the official acknowledgment of the highest radiation levels yet measured there, by a factor of seven (the previously measured high was 73 sieverts an hour in 2012). The highest radiation level measured at Chernobyl was 300 sieverts an hour.
[...] This coverage relates only to Unit 2's melted reactor core. There is no reliable news of the condition of the melted reactor cores in two other units.
[...] Whatever is actually going on at Fukushima is not good, and has horrifying possibilities. It is little comfort to have the perpetrator of the catastrophe, TEPCO, in charge of fixing it, especially when the Japanese government is more an enabler of cover-up and denial than any kind of seeker of truth or protector of its people.
(Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday February 22 2017, @05:55AM
Even if (and it's a big if) your contention is correct that people with personal solar systems have paid more for them than they will ever receive in lowered cost. Even if (and it's a big if) they are "virtue signaling," as you like to call it. And even if (and it's a big if) they are wasting their money, which, in the economic system you like to propound, is their own choice and no one else's.
Even if all of those things are true: their effect is that of an anti-Tragedy of the Commons. The people are intentionally doing something not in their own economic interests with the intent of making the community richer. And I find that to be a desirable outcome. I cannot comprehend a worldview where that is not a desirable income. Even a stereotypical evil, dog-eat-dog, hyper-capitalist would twirl his moustache and say, "Good! Those weaklings are making it easier for me to fleece profits from them."
So basically, this was a long way of saying, "What the hell is wrong with you?"
(Score: 1) by anubi on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:05AM
Gawd, I wish our Government would recognize this and quit being an enabler for this kind of destructive horse crap.
"Prove all things; hold fast that which is good." [KJV: I Thessalonians 5:21]
(Score: 1) by charon on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:19AM
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:41AM
I wish our Government would recognize this and quit being an enabler for this kind of destructive horse crap
So, this time around, did you vote for the Red Brand of enabling or the Blue brand?
Keeping up with what your Congresscritters are doing?
Sending letters/calling?
Going to participate in the town hall with your Congresscritter during the February recess?
(A bunch or Reds are ducking those.)
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmorris on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:24AM
Oh I'd have zero problem with people doing whatever they want with their own money. I'm on record here multiple times saying my Rule 0 is the Right to be Wrong since without it somebody has to wield the power of declaring who is Wrong. But it is an illusion in this case since taxpayers are typically on the hook when a home installs solar since even the virtue signalers usually get cold feet when confronted with the unsubsidized price. In fact, now that he has declared he is in Australia I care a bit less since while he is still helping a government waste taxpayer money but it isn't my government wasting mine. :)
And to a certain extent I can even work up a grudging respect for guys like Elon Musk. I think he knows the green side of his company is mostly a scam to hoover up government cash and part the hyper rich .com folks from large sums of money, but it was the only way to fund a space program. We need one of those but the only other players, the USG and other nation states, are only interested in going round and round in low earth orbit in gold plated launch vehicles that ain't ever going to advance the ball.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday February 22 2017, @06:51AM
Space program for which he'll fleece the US tax payer.
Yeap, fleece, because the tax payer of today will not see any benefit from it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 22 2017, @08:19AM
Community sounds too similar to communism so it is scary.