Fukushima Radiation Levels High, But Leak Plugged

jmcvetta wrote in with a story about Fukushima radiation levels so high that monitoring devices have been rendered useless. Levels outside the buildings exceed 100 millisieverts in some places. But the good news is that the leak is patched using 1500 liters of sodium silicate.

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Re:Obligatory xkcd radiation chart

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You believe almost anything can cause incalculable damages? Uh, okay. You did know the damages for oil spills are also capped, right? Now, the profits, they are not capped. Things go well and the ultra-rich owning class profits. Things go badly, and WE pay for it.

Nuclear power, as I fucking well said, CAN BE safer. But NOT when we let the owners off the hook! Get it, dipshit? I'm not against nuclear power. I'm against greedy sociopaths profiting off of something we have to pay for when it goes wrong. And I'm against THAT because the damn greedy sociopaths have ruined nuclear power, just absolutely killed it as an option.