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8d ago Don't play dense at me. Everyone knows the issue with Fukushima was it came within a whisker of catastrophic meltdown. There are nukes in California built on fault lines. There are many aging nukes… -6.0
8d ago The *engineering* lesson learned from Fukushima was events with 1 in 100 year probability are likely to occur in a 50 year lifespan. Therefore they need to be accounted for in the design. At face … -2.0
8d ago That’s completely a historical - it was from 1970 . Also, the main lesson from Fukushima was that it’s so amazingly safe that even after a richter 9 earthquake that hits your facility followed by a… +2.0
8d ago But nuclear became expensive because of the engineering lessons learned from Fukushima. You want to unlearn those lessons? Isn’t it both obvious and inevitable that nuclear will increasingly be a … -3.0
8d ago And Fukushima was caused by a natural tidal wave, not always human error. +1.0
8d ago Nuclear energy could be in for a big decade https://www.europesays.com/3135956/ The global nuclear energy industry has been muted since 2011, when the Fukushima Daiichi disaster unfolded in Japan.… ×2 +4.0
8d ago You know literally 0 people died due to Fukushima-related radiation right? Nuclear is so safe that after two earthquakes and a Tsunami it still didn't kill anybody Ironically, shutting down nucle… +3.5
9d ago As he gets plenty of causes/problems correct. Hell, he arguably even called Fukushima (though that's probably more a reflection of TEPCO long being negligent & already having had minor accidents be… -4.2
9d ago Fukushima means going back to coal or gas but deepwater horizon happened and nobody blinked -5.0
9d ago Yeah ya think Fukushima might have had something to do with that? -4.0
9d ago More than 100 serious nuclear incidents have shaken the world since the first reactor was built. However, only two tragedies - Chernobyl and Fukushima - have become symbols of hum... https://khatul… -6.5
9d ago 100 Times Nuclear Apocalypse Almost Happened: Between Chernobyl and the Forgotten Fukushima -6.0
9d ago "We closed our nuclear plants and switched back to the dirtiest kind of coal because of Fukushima!" 'Oh, you have fault lines like you're sitting on the Ring of Fire? your plants are near enough t… -5.0
9d ago Check out Guardian of Fukushima! Naoto Matsumura was, a farmer ordered to evacuate the deadly radiation zone. Unwilling to abandon his beloved animals, he returned home, to fight for the beauty of … ×2 +3.0
9d ago Nobody died at Three Mile Island. One person died at Fukushima. We responded by shutting down the safest large scale energy source ever built and replacing it with natural gas. New piece on how fea… -2.0
9d ago Donald Trump threatened to bomb Fukushima to force Iran to back down. -8.0
9d ago "VOX POPULI: 40 years on, humankind has learned nothing from Chernobyl" Scientists have learned plenty. But as with the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns, as with climate change, corporations & governmen… ×2 -7.0
9d ago "July 16, for the conducted by the IAEA, TEPCO collected samples of the ALPS treated water before dilution with seawater from the Measurement/Confirmation Tanks on the premises of TEPCO’s Fukushima… -0.5
10d ago Nuclear meltdowns in order of severity: * Fukushima * Three Mile Island * Chernobyl * England in this game -5.0
10d ago Yunokami Onsen Station Fukushima Japan #Japan #Nippon ×2 +2.0
8d ago I mean we beat the Nazis before we got nukes. Japan we got some but we definitely would've won a conventional war, just at the cost of a lot of US (and Japanese) casualties. -1.5
8d ago This seems debatable or at least non-obvious, considering the most immediate "benefit" of the USA becoming a nuclear power. Specifically, occupying Japan without an amphibious invasion and without … -1.0
8d ago Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) – TCOFF-2 project members meet in Tokyo to review progress https://www.europesays.com/japan/60029/ TCOFF-2 is the second phase of the NEA joint project Thermodynamic C… +1.5
8d ago "he is going to tactical nuke Iran" you mean like Truman nuked Japan? Like Hoover attempted to coup slavic countries? like roosevelt couped iran? like the european colonizer who founded the US nuk… -8.0
8d ago Today in 1945 at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory—one day after the TRINITY test—Chief Physicist Leo Szilard signed and circulated a petition to President Truman urging him to wei… -2.0
8d ago US, Japan and South Korea Forge SMR Alliance as Nuclear Competition With China and Russia Intensifies - Energy News energynews.biz/us-japan-and... +3.0
8d ago These are the small steps the corrupt Abe/Aso gang are taking. 80 years of Japan enjoying peace are being destroyed. More horrors to come. They want to have nuclear weapons -- the people do NOT. Th… -7.0
8d ago I'm fine with not building new, but I dont think we should be happy about closing the ones we already have, again, both Japan and Germany have resorted to burning coal to offset nuclear, which is sad -2.5
9d ago Congrats to Toshiaki Yoshida on: Entangled Fisherfolk: The decline of the fishing industry and the rise of the anti-nuclear movements in Japan TL;DR: defensive instruments compelled pro-facility gr… +2.0
9d ago Author Kobayashi Erika’s War and Nuclear Writings Unearth New Perspectives https://www.europesays.com/japan/59601/ Kobayashi Erika is an author focused on unearthing the past by shedding light on… +3.0

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