Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees

Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by catalogia on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:21PM (#22621379)

The only reason trillions of dollars haven't been spent cleaning up the byproducts of burning fossil fuels is because we just dump it into the environment instead. If the fossil fuel industry were held accountable for the waste, it would be much more expensive than the boondoggle that is Yucca mountain. (Particularly if CO2 emissions are properly considered...)

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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by bumby on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @05:31PM (#22621441)

Good point. Any idea on the costs associated with implementing something like carbon capture?

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Re:Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear dis... by redwall_hp on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:51PM (#22624248)

Best so far is 1 gigajoule per ton of CO2: http://news.mit.edu/2019/mit-engineers-develop-new-way-remov...

Which is pretty much only going to happen if you invest a lot of money into nuclear facilities dedicated to this. 1GJ is about 280 kilowatt-hours.

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