Two years to the day since fukushima

Monday, March 11, 2013

RIP my friends.

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Posted by Tor at 04:26 PM | 12 COMMENTS | permalink | Comment on This Entry |

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It may take up to 40 years to fully decontaminate the area, and a recent estimate from plant operator Tepco pegs the cleanup bill at $125 billion.

I bet they wish they had invested more heavily in green technologies now.

#1 | Posted by donnerboy at 2013-03-11 05:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

And the next highly-touted replacement for fossil fuels bites the dust. Good riddance to nuclear energy.

#2 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-03-11 05:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

Right on, Null! Solar energy and hamsters on treadmills will supply all our energy needs, brother.

#3 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-03-11 06:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

CNN aired a story this morning about all the junk washing up on the beaches of Hawaii. Pretty sickening to see the plastic they found in the stomachs of the dead birds strewn about. It will be many years until this is somewhat over.

#4 | Posted by coyote at 2013-03-11 08:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Right on, Null! Solar energy and hamsters on treadmills will supply all our energy needs, brother."

Sorry. It won't. It's a fantasy that so-called green energy like solar and windmills can keep the energy-guzzling pigout going.

#5 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-03-11 08:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

My apology then, Null. The newspapers fill us up with the ideal that if we abolish fossil fuels and nukes, somehow we will have enough electricity to power the Grateful Dead concert!

#6 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-03-11 08:36 PM | Reply | Flag:

We had a minor quake today--two really. In the mid 4's (like 4.2 and 4.7).

Ha! 125 billion is nothing.

#7 | Posted by MURPHY at 2013-03-11 09:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

"The newspapers fill us up with the ideal that if we abolish fossil fuels and nukes, somehow we will have enough electricity to power the Grateful Dead concert!"

Are they still touring?

#8 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-03-11 09:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

No, Garcia went into a radical version of reducing the human carbon footprint, Null.

#9 | Posted by Diablo at 2013-03-11 09:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

#9 Posted by Diablo

I guess you don't have anything intelligent to say on topic. [...] Nothing less than an American Chernobyl will wake up you dummies, and even that probably wouldn't be enough.

#10 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-03-11 10:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

#11 | Posted by Diablo

I'm sorry, 'Blo, I'm trying to give you the benefit of the doubt, but you keep babbling on incoherently about God knows what. Do you have a question? An assertion? What?

#12 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-03-11 11:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

It's ok, the ITER fusion plant and it's son DEMO are coming by 2020. And then free energy will be had by all.

#13 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2013-03-12 03:23 AM | Reply | Flag: