The Robots Sent Into Fukushima Have 'Died'

[sdifox]

who needs fusion research when you got Rossi and Adlep holding it down.

D:

 

[Elixer]

I know a guy in his 90's that was a nuclear engineer, and he was saying that the solution is to dig a big "bowl" under the reactors, and fill it with lead and other metals and some kind of glass as you go along and they should have started this process within weeks, but were looking for the least expensive way to do it.

He then went on to say there is no reason that we can't have safe nuclear mini-reactors like bigger models of the kind used on subs & ships except for all the political BS. His team pushed for 38 years trying to get permits and it was pretty much impossible. He said the US could have been the #1 supplier of energy, without oil, coal or natural gas, and it would have been trillions of dollars cheaper than anything else.
He said they even had a brilliant way to dispose of the rods safely, but that is still classified.

 

[Red Squirrel]

It's not really that clear-cut. One affects an area the size of a county, the other affects a couple hundred miles of coastline and thousands of square miles of ocean. Sure nuclear accidents are far more dramatic, but petro accidents are far more common and that adds up.

Yep, and nuclear issues just tend to be amplified by the fact that public is scared of it and the fact that oil lobbyists and governments have more power to make coverage stop or be reduced when there is an incident. When there was a huge train derailment here that spilled tons of oil media was not even allowed on the scene to get an idea of how bad it was and they only talked about it for a few weeks. Meanwhile a nuclear plant has a precautionary shut down drill or something and it's all over the news as if it's the end of the world.