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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Good, because saying the reactor is fixed and there is no concern would be absolutely fucking ludicrous, wouldn't it? I wonder how much plane tickets to Japan are right now? I'd love to get the Pollyanna nuclear cheerleaders here a ticket to Japan, so they can check out the damage for themselves and report back to us, if they survive. It's no problem, right? Perfectly safe.

Nuclear power can be made perfectly safe, but that would cut into profits. And as long as the taxpayers of the world are on the hook for most of the damages a nuclear plant can create (owners and operators have a liability cap, or they could never afford insurance, given that the maximum possible damages are basically incalculable), the moral hazard that creates will ensure that there are no investments in safer nuclear technology.