News about Fukushima

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5. AFAIK It cannot blow to pieces.

The fissionable products cannot make a nuke bomb by themselves. It takes deliberate processes to enrich to weapons grade, none of which are happening at Fukushima.

So that worry is off the table.

That isn't to say that there are no worries. There are. TEPCO screwed the pooch here. I don't know what they were thinking when they saw those reactors blow up from the fucking inevitable hydrogen concentrations. Shit! I learned this shit in undergrad physics in the 70's!!!!

Although I do not see doomsday at Fukushima, we haven't seen the end of this. However, we may have seen the end of nuclear power. As somebody educated in physics I can simpathize both with pro and con sides.

Modular reactors are safe. We've been launching them into space for decades. We can make them very safe now. There are thorium decay channels which have many fewer problems.

However, the fucking waste problem is a fucking deal killer for pretty much all nuke power. What the fuck do you do with stuff which is 1) not natural on Earth; and 2) is the most exquisitely poisonous substance known to humans? The best thing would be to launch it into the Sun. But who would guarantee that that could be done safely?

I think nuke power is dead. But I still see a glimmer for modular nuke. But just a glimmer.