There are 3 nuclear core meltdowns in Japan that will be dumping radioactive waste into the environment daily for decades (and have been doing so since March 2011). And yet, nuclear power is STILL being touted as “clean”???????!
Nuclear engineers are the first to admit the technology does not exist to clean up Fukushima but the “answer” is to forget about it and build something new?
[ There are 3 nuclear core meltdowns in Japan that will be dumping radioactive waste into the environment daily for decades (and have been doing so since March 2011). And yet, nuclear power is STILL being touted as “clean”???????!
Nuclear engineers are the first to admit the technology does not exist to clean up Fukushima but the “answer” is to forget about it and build something new? ]
Water/steam is a bad way to get the heat away from a reactor core and leads to complexity and all sorts of issues leading to meltdown...
The design of the Fukushima reactors is nearly half a century old. Newer designs are far safer.
“There are 3 nuclear core meltdowns in Japan that will be dumping radioactive waste into the environment daily for decades (and have been doing so since March 2011).”
How many people have died as a result of the Fukushima incident, exactly?
That said, modern reactor designs can’t melt down, it’s not physically possible. We just need to stop building reactors using decades-old designs.
“And yet, nuclear power is STILL being touted as “clean”???????!”
Of course. Fossil fuel generation kills hundreds of thousands of people annually.
“Nuclear engineers are the first to admit the technology does not exist to clean up Fukushima but the “answer” is to forget about it and build something new?”
The “answer” is to build safe reactors. The technology exists today.