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Fukushima Photo Essay: a Drone's Eye View
Hallie Siegel (2973169) writes "Here's stunning photos and incredible interactive aerial maps of the devastation, cleanup and reconstruction effort in the region around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Adam Klaptocz of Drone Adventures in collaboration with Taichi Furuhashi, researcher at the Center for Spatial Information Science at the University of Tokyo show the current state of the region."
Well, park my Ford Nucleon and enjoy a refreshing Nuka-Cola, obviously!
Perhaps you'd care to mention which photos you believe are stunning? They all look distinctly average to me.
Imagine telling a child that he or she can never return home to Tomioka because it has been turned into a storage facility for radioactive soil from other regions. Imagine the psychological devastation.
How is that different from any other of the numerous locations that no longer exist either due to economic collapse, or development? I lived in a few places as a kid, none of which exist today. One suburb is now a shopping centre, another demolished to make a forest, and yet another a derelict small town with no economy, soon to be wiped off the map.
What do you do with a parking lot full of radioactive topsoil?
Move it to secure long term storage with lots of signs warning of danger. None of your FUD is really any great concern. Since 7 million people died this year from air pollution mainly from coal power stations, we'll probably do the same thing we do about that, ie not much, but certainly not get all scared about it.
Just to be clear here: the devastation is all due to the tsunami, not to the reactor failure. Foreign media seem to often forget or ignore that the disaster was the earthquake and tsunami. That's what killed almost 20k people dead and destroyed the homes of many hundreds of thousands of people.
Trust the Computer. The Computer is your friend.
Imagine telling a child that he or she can never return home to Tomioka because it has been turned into a storage facility for radioactive soil from other regions. Imagine the psychological devastation.
This is a great example of a knee-jerk reaction and "think of the children".
The child generally has less attachment to the old home than the adult. That kind of attachment comes with nostalgia.
Compare the psychological devastation between "There was a disaster so we are going to move and you and your friends are going to school in another part of town." compared to "I have a new job in another town so we have to move and leave all your friends behind."
Yep, that just happened, you brought up an example where a parent getting a new job is worse than a nuclear disaster.
Imagine telling a child that he or she can never return home to Tomioka because
Because what? It's one of:
* A nucler storage facility
* A windfarm
* A biomass farm
* Over a massive underground coal fire
* Astonishingly contaminated from mine tailings
* Buried under a massive slide of mine tailings which killed the child
* Overrun by an ash mudslide
* Dug up to get at tar sands
* etc
Energy usage is big, really big. This means that large areas of land will get put completely out of use. The end.
Magic nukular doesn't make it any more scary, but please WON'T SOMEBODY THINK OF THE CHILDREN????!11!111omg!11onelevenONE11! OMG!!!
Nuclear is basically no worse than anything else for putting land out of action.
If you really want to think of the children, think how bad it will be for them to lose a parent. If you atually cared for the children rather than pushing your own agenda, you'd choose the power generation method least likely to render them parentless. That's nuclear which is better than all others in this regard by about an order of magnitude.
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Imagine telling a child that he or she can never return home to Tomioka because it has been turned into a storage facility for radioactive soil from other regions. Imagine the psychological devastation.
Kids are a lot more resilient than that. My house burned down when I was a kid. We were left with nothing. Yeah, it sucked, but it was a life lesson. I can look back and see that life goes on.
It is time that we close the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant in California, which sits above multiple faults capable of producing the type of quake that destroyed Fukushima Daichi.
Wrong. The Tsunami caused the plant to fail, not the quake. In the case of Diablo, if there is no credible chance of a Tsunami inundating the plant, then it is fine. I can assure you it can well withstand a major quake.