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[Besoeker]

eds, on 17 July 2014 - 06:09 AM, said:

From your link:

• Nuclear power is the only large-scale energy-producing technology which takes full responsibility for all its wastes and fully costs this into the product.  
  
• The amount of radioactive wastes is very small relative to wastes produced by fossil fuel electricity generation.
  
• Used nuclear fuel may be treated as a resource or simply as a waste.
  
• Nuclear wastes are neither particularly hazardous nor hard to manage relative to other toxic industrial wastes.
  
• Safe methods for the final disposal of high-level radioactive waste are technically proven; the international consensus is that this should be geological disposal.

If you Truly believe . . . All of the above . . . GO live in Fukushima prefecture,
. . . severely devastated by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake and
. . . a subsequent tsunami in March 2011, and
. . . still only, relative, simply, toxic industrial wastes . . . technically.
The disaster resulted in over 19,000 of deaths, according to the World Nuclear Association,

Yes, that 19000 deaths is the real tragedy, the one that seems to have been forgotten.
And not one of which was a result of the nuclear accident.

[Shortpoet-GTD]

A sad legacy is beginning to emerge from the Fukushima meltdown; suicides.
Grief from losing family members to the tsunami and survivor's guilt is also having an impact.

One dairy farmed culled his entire herd and wrote this on his shed before taking his own life-
"If only there wasn't a nuclear power plant."

http://www.digitaljo.../article/308815

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Whatever is causing human beings to become dumber than a bag of hammers has to be studied and stopped.
It's pervasive.
But when it comes to storing nuclear waste; you would think they'd have a clue.
Evidently not.

The nrc may approve storing spent fuel rods on site (for 100+ years); in pools of water.
Their own studies show the high risk of this idea; and yet they call the risk "negligible"
WT>>>?

"You will have all the waste sitting, basically, in a giant swimming pool,
and the potential of the swimming pool draining
or being breached by an accident
or an attack
or a power loss that causes the water to boil off—
all of those things would have impacts that the NRC's own analysis says would equal
that of a meltdown of the reactor core."

Via Mother Jones/environment
http://www.motherjon...e-waste-magwood

[Shortpoet-GTD]

Sad but no surprise;
cancer on the rise in Japan post Fukushima.

Young people are being diagnosed with thyroid cancer. Of course, the government is denying the issue and
says they're unrelated.
Via Eco Watch-
http://ecowatch.com/...ncer-fukushima/

http://ecowatch.com/...children-dying/