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I don't ever partake in drinking ocean water to begin with,
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Unless you are getting your water from mars, everything you have ever eaten or drank was sea water recently. Where do you think rain comes from? It's almost certain you've got a few atoms of Deuterium from Fukushima in your body right now.
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I have to start this off with how many other things would we of had to write off if they failed? Planes, Cars, Telephones, the internet, modern medicine, people, etc.
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Again you keep missing the time scale here. A crashed car stops being dangerous after the crash is over. It doesn't keep creating poisons a thousand years later.
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Okay, is your argument here that environmentalists AREN'T opposing Nuclear energy? Like, they all got together and went "Yeah, we're cool with that."? I have to assume I'm misunderstanding your sentiment here...
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Please try harder to understand. Gladewalker said that radiation comes from coal too, implying that we were treating that radiation differently from radiation from nuclear plants. My reply was that no, environmentalists oppose coal and nuclear equally for the same reasons. The lack of movie monsters is irrelevant.
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...but to just write off nuclear technology because sometimes it gets broken seems like such a short sighted view point.
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Short sighted is refusing to acknowledge how long these nuclear disasters will continue to be dangerous.
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We've just got to figure out how to do it without, you know, not asking for help when its actually needed. That's what I take away from the story here, 2 years went by and they couldn't own up to the fact they couldn't actually contain it. What if in the first week they had asked for help, I'm willing to bet the incident would of been handled far better.
If we're going to use this kind of dangerous technology we have to be willing to work together, but as long as we're not that's when crap is going to go down.
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Why would you assume that Fukushima will be the last time humans do stupid things and place ego and profit over safety? A bad engineer will blame weak materials when his structure breaks. A good one will measure the material strength first, and redesign the structure to work with what he has got. Humans fail in predictable ways, and any plan that requires them not to fail is doomed.