The Pacific Ocean is Dying

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6. Why would such an inherently unsafe technology and unstable design...

...be implemented worldwide in the first place?"

Profit & greed.

The upshot of each of these articles is that the Pacific Ocean is extremely vulnerable to the radioactive waste being dumped into her waters at Fukushima. Should another catastrophic earthquake occur, it could create a new and more complicated nuclear disaster scenario that is truly irreparable. Even without any seismic activity affecting the nuclear sites, the current state of affairs has taken for granted that the Pacific Ocean will become a nuclear dumping ground for decades to come. It has not been lost on us that such an inevitability appears to be the only practical expedient available.

I think the situation is critical, however I don't have much hope that there will be an international response unless things get drastically worse. Putting together an international team would mean that other countries would also have to admit the dangers of nuclear power & then citizens might possibly demand that their nukes be turned off too.