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Envirogal

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6. The Fukushima costs are not worth the risks of nuclear energy
Tue Sep 10, 2024, 09:41 AM
Sep 2024

Especially when it’s going to take decades if not a hundred years to clean up the toxic disaster.

Talk about “weather dependent energy”. These natural disasters are only going to continue as climate change accelerates. Wind and solar don’t have meltdowns that displace entire regions for decades and that the government is left to clean up and pay for…if it’s even able to really clean up since all that waste, including the equipment are just stored as everyone kicks the can on finding sustaining ways to deal with it.

https://apnews.com/article/japan-fukushima-reactor-melted-fuel-robot-9ffc309fb072580bee0161e8a24c8490

And that link came from another thread. You should go there and tell them this is a boogeyman.

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