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Secrets of the worst industrial disaster in history: The public may never know the full extent of the damage from Fukushima

Friday, February 09, 2018 by: Isabelle Z.   


(Natural News) Remember Fukushima? Most of us who live on the other side of the world can tell you it was the site of a triple nuclear meltdown six years ago, but that’s all in the past now, right?

The truth is that the effects of the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant will be felt by every living being on the planet for years to come, and it doesn’t matter if you live down the street from the plant or you’re a fish swimming in the ocean thousands of miles away. The true extent of the damage from this devastating incident is something that many people fail to fully grasp.

https://www.naturalnews.com/2018-02-09-industrial-disaster-public-may-never-know-full-extent-of-the-damage-from-fukushima.html

[The_Reader_David]

Paradoxically, Fukashima should serve as an advertisement for the safety of nuclear power:  an aging nuclear plant with out-dated safety equipment that depended on having a power supply (modern ones have fail-safes that automatically scram the reactor if power is lost and the back-up power doesn't kick in), was hit by an earthquake of a magnitude greater than what it and its containment had been designed to withstand, and a tsunami that cut its power supply meaning its out-dated safety systems failed, and, well, the results were bad, but remediable.  We should be able to build lots of standardized-design reactors with modern fail-safes in geologically stable areas with no problems (if Yucca Mountain's NIMBY movement will settle down).  Or better still, give up on having every electric power plant make plutonium for nuclear weapons and build thorium reactors.

[Neverdul]

The truth is that the effects of the incident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant will be felt by every living being on the planet for years to come, and it doesn’t matter if you live down the street from the plant or you’re a fish swimming in the ocean thousands of miles away. The true extent of the damage from this devastating incident is something that many people fail to fully grasp.

Typical NaturalNutNews scaremongering and completely unscientific crap.

Did the Fukushima plant leak dangerous amount of radiation? Yes.  Were the effects wide spread and felt by “every living being on the planet for years to come”? No.

[Oceander]

Paradoxically, Fukashima should serve as an advertisement for the safety of nuclear power:  an aging nuclear plant with out-dated safety equipment that depended on having a power supply (modern ones have fail-safes that automatically scram the reactor if power is lost and the back-up power doesn't kick in), was hit by an earthquake of a magnitude greater than what it and its containment had been designed to withstand, and a tsunami that cut its power supply meaning its out-dated safety systems failed, and, well, the results were bad, but remediable.  We should be able to build lots of standardized-design reactors with modern fail-safes in geologically stable areas with no problems (if Yucca Mountain's NIMBY movement will settle down).  Or better still, give up on having every electric power plant make plutonium for nuclear weapons and build thorium reactors.

Good point. 

[Au_Jus]

Typical NaturalNutNews scaremongering and completely unscientific crap.

Did the Fukushima plant leak dangerous amount of radiation? Yes.  Were the effects wide spread and felt by “every living being on the planet for years to come”? No.

This.

To use Natural News as a source is ridiculous.  You might as well say Marie Osmond likes a good gang bang and then dare everyone to prove you wrong. 

[Fishrrman]

David wrote:
"cut its power supply meaning its out-dated safety systems failed, and, well, the results were bad, but remediable..."

Remediable?
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Fukushima marked the end of the commercial nuclear power generation era.

Aside from a very few projects that remain under construction, I doubt there will be any NEW nuclear power generation reactors started in the Western World in our lifetimes...

[thackney]

Aside from a very few projects that remain under construction, I doubt there will be any NEW nuclear power generation reactors started in the Western World in our lifetimes...

That is a bet I would take.

[driftdiver]

David wrote:
"cut its power supply meaning its out-dated safety systems failed, and, well, the results were bad, but remediable..."

Remediable?

Fukushima marked the end of the commercial nuclear power generation era.

Aside from a very few projects that remain under construction, I doubt there will be any NEW nuclear power generation reactors started in the Western World in our lifetimes...

@Fishrrman
There were very few projects before Fukushima so the lack of projects isnt a result.   The problem is the over regulation and religious fervor that the anti-nuke people have attacked the industry with for decades.

In fact its a near certainty that the Fukushima disaster would not have happened if the plants had been allowed to modernize.  They were running on 50 year old technology & designs.    Modern designs would have prevented the meltdown.

BTW the I believe the explosion you see is actually hydrogen exploding.   They actually failed as designed and minimized the overall damage.

[Joe Wooten]

Fukushima units 1 and 2 had isolation condensers that would have helped them survive the tsunami if the operators had not turned them off a few minutes before it hit. Isolation condensers are almost totally passive except for a small diesel driven makeup water pump. Dresden Units 2 and 3 have them here, which is the vintage of the 2 first Fukushima units. There were also several design changes made by TEPCO during construction that would have never been allowed by the old AEC, much less is successor the NRC, like putting the emergency diesels and several safety related systems below grade in the basement.