First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima plant

Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by vonmoltke on Friday February 15, 2019 @04:45PM (#19175011)

> on top of crap like Flint

Flint's water contamination has absolutely nothing to do with energy production of any kind. It was caused by the city still having lead water pipes.

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> About 16% of all fracking oil in the US gets spilled in nature every year[1]

> [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39032748

That isn't at all what that article says. It says 16% of wells suffer a spill each year. The industry would never allow 16% of its product to simply go to waste, particularly considering how difficult and expensive those operations are.

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Re:First contact made with melted nuclear fuel at Fukushima ... by folkrav on Monday February 18, 2019 @12:52PM (#19192560)

I'm not american, seems like I mixed up Flint with some other american city that made the news up here for having water catching fire and shit like that.

And indeed, I misread, it's not 16% total spillage but 16% of them spilling at all. This one doesn't really change much to my point that having one in six fracking points spilling out is extremely damaging.

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