First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by lotu on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:06PM (#19174713)

Nuclear kills less people than Coal mostly from asthma, but coal even causes more cancer because on a normal day it emits far more radiation in the form of small particles of radioactive dust present in coal.

The real danger of Nuclear is it can make land unusable by people for centuries (this actually appears to be good from a biodiversity and ecological heath stand point because people do more damage to that than some radiation). But by contributing to climate change coal has the potential to put far more land under water.

If we had gone for widespread adoption of nuclear power on the scale of Japan climate change would not be a problem like it is today.

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by acidburnNSA on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:12PM (#19174771)

Centuries? Have you been to the Chernobyl exclusion zone recently? [1] That was the worst accident imaginable. Fukushima is much less bad. Natural background radiation in places like Ramsar, Iran are way higher than what you'd experience at Fukushima even right after it happened. And people have been living healthily there for hundreds of years. Low-dose effects of radiation seem to not be all that bad.

[1] https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/060418-chernobyl...

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by acidburnNSA on Friday February 15, 2019 @09:27PM (#19176629)

I'm going to correct myself and say that Ramsar rates are what you'd experience around Fukushima a year out, not right after it happened. Some of those workers got way higher doses than anything natural.

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