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In reply to the discussion: Fukushima - they are planning to move fuel rods from the hottest spent storage pool in Nov. (scary) [View all]PufPuf23
(9,895 posts)Suppose civilization devolves to a second world at extreme -- archaic nomenclature -- status for a generation or more.
The Earth, but more rightly humanity, has created hundreds of nuclear power plants that have a long life of toxic but may decay in a dark age in humanity.
The Earth has entered the Anthropogenic geologic epoch that ends the Holocene.
The Anthropogenic geologic epoch will likely be a boundary condition in a geologic time frame.
Humanity has taxed the slack out of our environment causal to period of mass extinction and disruption of ecosystems on a global scale.
Each nuclear facility now in existence is a potential Fukushima at some order of scale.
Humanity will tend not to stagnate or become toxic by living our lives within the realm of contemporary natural science and a large margin for risk.
Humanity has not had the technology, morals, nor will to use atomic energy in a manner to not diminish Earth nor our own society in my 60 plus years.
Please solve this problem.