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| The Fukushima plant is crowded with 10-meter-tall tanks storing tainted radioactive water used to cool melted nuclear fuel masses and groundwater that infiltrated the site—some 750,000 tons in all. |
A report from Los Angeles Times:
When a drum containing radioactive waste blew up in an underground nuclear dump in New Mexico two years ago, the Energy Department rushed to quell concerns in the Carlsbad desert community and quickly reported progress on resuming operations.
The early federal statements gave no hint that the blast had caused massive long-term damage to the dump, a facility crucial to the nuclear weapons cleanup program that spans the nation, or that it would jeopardize the Energy Department's credibility in dealing with the tricky problem of radioactive waste.
But the explosion ranks among the costliest nuclear accidents in U.S. history, according to a Times analysis.
The long-term cost of the mishap could top $2 billion, an amount roughly in the range of the cleanup after the 1979 partial meltdown at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in Pennsylvania.
The Feb. 14, 2014, accident is also complicating cleanup programs at about a dozen current and former nuclear weapons sites across the U.S. Thousands of tons of radioactive waste that were headed for the dump are backed up in Idaho, Washington, New Mexico and elsewhere, state officials said in interviews.
"The direct cost of the cleanup is now $640 million, based on a contract modification made last month with Nuclear Waste Partnership that increased the cost from $1.3 billion to nearly $2 billion," reports Los Angeles Times.
"The cost-plus contract leaves open the possibility of even higher costs as repairs continue.
And it does not include the complete replacement of the contaminated ventilation system or any future costs of operating the mine longer than originally planned."
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For the most part, in the final analysis, it really doesn't pay to go nuclear does it.
The long term cost and effects just don't pencil out in comparison to other suppressed technologies.
Hydrogen, separated from H2O by electricity is utilized by the US Navy on board their subs to provide fresh breathable oxygen.
Windpower producing electricity or solar cells which in turn is used to produce hydrogen which when utilized releases water back into the atmosphere and not toxins or radioactivity.
There are indeed alternatives to how we do things in our world today.
But unfortunately a lot of corporations and their share holders would rather not change, even if it cost lives.
It truly is possible to come up with natural, organic sources of power.
Nickolas Tesla knew how to power the world for free and actually started to build upon it until his finance provider, withdrew funding from the project. J.P. Morgan shut him down because free was not something a capitalist can ever allow unless it translates to future sales and profitability.
In 1892, Morgan arranged the merger of Edison General Electric and Thomson-Houston Electric Company to form General Electric.
He was instrumental in the creation of the United States Steel Corporation.
Ya...our world is screwed up and getting worse with each day that we don't explore the alternatives.
What's it gonna take?
Another Three Mile Island (USA 1979), Chernobyl (Ukraine 1986) , Fukushima (Japan 2011), or perhaps another event on USA soil?
One was contained without harm to anyone, the next involved an intense fire without provision for containment and radiated the surrounding area for years, and the third severely tested the containment, allowing massive continuing release of radioactivity into the Pacific Ocean.
Come on people let's do something about this before all of us ruin this incredible planet we all count on to survive.
I don't have the article but I recall what I read somewhat.
China had been observed by aerial Satellite surveillance laying out miles and miles of cable on the earth's surface in patterns.
The article speculated that China was experimenting with gathering electricity in the cables from the earth's own magnetic fields.
If this is true, and in theory it is a good possibility, then the oil companies and other energy sources would do everything in their power to suppress this knowledge.
There was an experiment by NASA once where they extended a miles long wire cable to see if it would generate electricity.
It produced more electricity than NASA had anticipated and blew the cable where it connected to the space shuttle in a large flash of light and drifted off in space.
As they observed the cable drifting away the astronauts saw a large amount of unidentified flying objects of varying sizes inspecting the cable, but that is another post entirely...
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