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Fukushima Reactor Decommissioning

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coolzeldad:
http://act.credoaction.com/sign/fukushima_disaster/

In short, 4 reactors are being decommissioned by the TEPCO company in Japan with completion estimated within the next 5 years.

This involves removing and relocating fuel rods to secluded storage pools.

Dangers involve radiation release worsening the worldwide exposure to this disaster.

Many fuel rods are damaged and there are many complications with this plan.

TEPCO is known and scrutinized for its failure to provide transparent information, general incident cover-ups, and more.

This petition requests international oversight of the TEPCO company and enforced by the United Nations.

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I've been keeping up with this every now and then, and talking to some people about it on and off. In a serous sense, this is still sobering enough to me. Now that people make the connections between what could potentially happen now and Chernobyl, it makes me grimace. A fair amount of people on this planet may not even be up to date with any of this. Imagine if suddenly, they were consuming some potent vitamin Ba with a smile.

I'm kind of cynical in the sense that I -think- it's possible there have already been leaks or the like since we even heard of the incident... but, that's me and a bunch of cynical people being silly. Not that I won't sign this, of course.

I also wonder how this is going to affect the Nuclear Power infrastructure in the next 50 years, as well as our primary methods of electricity. Is it going to cause some sort of paradigm shift that cries out for Nuclear Fusion, or Nuclear Phobia?


Is Nuclear Power, as-is in this age, even as efficient or practical as it could be (energy and convenience vs waste and containment during dangerous events/human error)?
Should we just continue to do theory work, and back away from the gamma rays until we figure out just how to operate fission plants without incident or neglect?
Should we spend 50 years worth of research possibly boosted by a singularity, in order to maximize the practical uses of solar power/battery life? Should we do with natural fuels? Nuclear power plus?
Is anything even wrong with Nuclear power (was this just another fluke in the wake of progress)?

coolzeldad:
China is embracing solar and bringing down price of panels.

Hopefully we will see an increase in reliable and scalable renewables and a decrease in nuclear and fossile fuel dependency.

Solar seems very promising. The Ivanpah plant produces about 40% of an average nuclear reactor at its current size.

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Nuclear Fusion seems a ways off and promising output. However, I think there may be much higher dangers than currently advertised ( explosion or something else ).

We know nuclear energy isn't efficent with it's approximate 10% utilization and we're already past the half-way mark for world uranium deposits. And even with new waste reprocessing theories we still have a lot of that to contain, not to mention how seriously dangerous it is and how much leaks out through standard procedure let alone disaster.

Valid questions indeed.

Cake Faice:
I like my poo idea better where massive plants are built to extract methane from sewage to power stuff like generators and water pumps.

Supertoaster:
Fun Fact: Chernobyl kept running until 2003 or 2008 I believe.

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