Re:Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon
by est31 on Monday October 14, 2019 @06:35AM
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Note that there wasn't a roof over these bags. Understandable 1 year after the catastrophy but not now, almost a decade later. The typhoon didn't even have to blow off the roof.
This isn't an engineering problem. The art to build roofs is wel researched. It's a human problem. That nuclear is only "cheap" if you aren't building roofs over little/medium radioactive waste storage sites, or don't design reactors to be as safe as possible. More safe == more expensive.
I wonder what happens the next time a tsunami similar to the one from 2011 hits the fukushima site. How much better prepared are they now?
This isn't an engineering problem. The art to build roofs is wel researched. It's a human problem. That nuclear is only "cheap" if you aren't building roofs over little/medium radioactive waste storage sites, or don't design reactors to be as safe as possible. More safe == more expensive.
I wonder what happens the next time a tsunami similar to the one from 2011 hits the fukushima site. How much better prepared are they now?