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Kid Berwyn

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24. What's a little plutonium among friends?
Fri May 20, 2022, 09:51 PM
May 2022

Don’t forget the strontium, americium and all the rest of the waste that will pollute the planet for a million years, too.

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Once again earthlings, there is no safe disposal of this waste. We will all suffer for any releases. Evolve Dammit May 2022 #1
Bullshit. NNadir May 2022 #7
Not Bullshit. Magoo48 May 2022 #14
Anyone who makes a statement that highly diluted tritium is... NNadir May 2022 #15
Given that we can measure incredibly small increases of radioactive material NickB79 May 2022 #21
so what is a "safe level" of radiation? Has it been defined? Evolve Dammit May 2022 #23
that is a lot of big water tanks lapfog_1 May 2022 #2
The plan they've been pushing for years is just to give up containing the water NullTuples May 2022 #9
Why can't the same water be reused for cooling? Owl May 2022 #16
The tsunami destroyed the plant's cooling systems, causing the meltdown of three reactors. Lasher May 2022 #3
It wasn't the force of the tsumani; it was putting the emergency generators in the basement NullTuples May 2022 #10
No meaningful difference. Lasher May 2022 #17
My point is the location wasn't the problem; minimizing cost was the problem NullTuples May 2022 #18
So the location wasn't a problem until they made it so by eliminating the hill. Lasher May 2022 #22
Approved! What other choice do they have? keithbvadu2 May 2022 #4
Tritium removal systems are in use elsewhere; TEPCO/Japan is taking the cheaper route NullTuples May 2022 #19
Send it on down to Mar a Lardo Blue Owl May 2022 #5
Good. It's long been a wasteful paean to ignorance to spend the money to store it. NNadir May 2022 #6
What's a little plutonium among friends? Kid Berwyn May 2022 #24
One of the interesting things about anti-nukes is how willing they are to display ignorance. NNadir May 2022 #25
Reactor 3 ran plutonium enriched fuel. Kid Berwyn May 2022 #26
Yeah, and what? NNadir May 2022 #27
Not with TEPCO dumping nuclear waste into the Pacific Ocean. Kid Berwyn May 2022 #28
I made myself clear. It is a waste of time to discuss facts with anti-nukes... NNadir May 2022 #29
You didn't educate anyone. Kid Berwyn May 2022 #30
Japan may have approved those plans, Bayard May 2022 #8
wow messed up rockfordfile May 2022 #11
Worse shit comes out of any coal power plant in normal operation. hunter May 2022 #13
Yikes. 2naSalit May 2022 #12
Good. That will go a long way to protect ocean life NickB79 May 2022 #20
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