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“It’s expected to take at least $300 billion and four decades to fix it.”

But, by all means, keep pimping this: GLOBAL WARMING IS KILLING US!

What a fecking mess. Drill, Baby! DRILL! This alternative energy stuff is just scary and awful. And EXPENSIVE as H#LL, all the way around!

P.S. America Sucks! Americans are destroying the planet, and NO ONE ELSE!

*SMIRK*

>What a fecking mess. Drill, Baby! DRILL! This alternative energy stuff is just scary and awful.<

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One part of the American economy that Trump has not paid much attention to so far is the energy industry.
We have the knowledge and the people (many have been at home for months without a job) to fully develop our oil and gas industry and make the USA fully energy independent. All that Trump has to do is to give the go ahead and there will be a sea of well-paying jobs for years to come. The sale of oil and gas on the world market can provide the funds to pay for the energy independence program. Required projects will entail: new refineries, expansion of existing refineries, cross-country. liquid and gas pipelines, product shipping terminals on either coast, LNG facilities, LNG tankers, etc., offshore liquids and gas gathering facilities. If we still have an infrastructure program we shall need numerous bitumen plants to support the road building program with asphalt. With our oil and gas wealth we shall not need nuclear energy plants.

"The worry is with 300 tons of radioactive water going into the Pacific every day,

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A non-sensical measure? How much radiation is that? How far about background radiation?

1 m Sievert = 1 pCi (but that is conflating dose in a human with radiation levels, so it is not precise.)

http://people.uwec.edu/jolhm/EH/Rosenhoeft/index5.htm

Background radiation in the Oceans is about 330 pCi/Liter.

http://www.physics.isu.edu/radinf/natural.htm

Ocean water is naturally radioactive, as is the ground, as is the air. What we would like to know, is how much more radioactive is the water that is going into the Pacific from the damaged nuclear plants, than the natural background level.

That is the critical measure that we are not being told.

If it a trillion times as radioactive, it might be a problem. Currently, they say 300 tons of the water is going into the ocean every day. That is about 300 cubic meters of water. The Pacific has a volume of about 6.549 x 10¹⁷ m³ cubic meters of water. To double the background radiation in the Pacific, if the water going in were a trillion times as radioactive, as ocean water, it would take six years of that output.

We do not see anywhere near that level of radioactivity rise in the oceans, so the water going in must be much, much less radioactive than a trillion times as much as the natural background.

How much is it above background levels? Double? Triple? A million times? A billion times? At even a billion times, it would raise the background level only .01 percent in six years.

The numbers are important.

Math done quickly, but I think the numbers are close.

The particular radioactive isotopes and their half lives are likely far more important.