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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: 2) by jmorris on Wednesday February 22 2017, @07:41PM
Look at it this way: they're paying the early-adopter tax for us :)
But that IS the heart of my objection. They are using YOUR money and MY money to feel superior. It is the government subsidy that makes it wicked. Get away from green tech which makes some people lose their effing mind. Imagine when the iPhone first came out, the old $700 ones... (of course the new ones are too... hmm) that some Congresscritter had declared they were so revolutionary that anyone who didn't have one would be 'left behind' so there would be a government program to pay $600 of the cost of one for anyone who met the means testing, probably using the typical rule of if you qualify for food stamps. Yea it would probably have driven the price down but would you be happy about your taxes dumping Sagans of cash into Apple's coffers so welfare clients could sport a current model iPhone?
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday February 22 2017, @10:10PM
Aaaaaand your fallacy is....*Classic Family-Feud scrolling sound* ...Faaaaaaalse Equivaleeeeence!
A fucking iPhone and solar power are not the same thing. The fact that you can't tell the difference speaks badly of either your intelligence or your morals. Or both. This is more like what fell out of NASA in the 50s and 60s than anything.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...