>>95917588I meant it mostly as a public image problem, in reply to that other poster.
Anyways, I used to think like that a lot, and then I read a bit about the situation there.
Not the hippie bullshit blogs, actual report digests.
It took years for them to *find* the core.
They can't get robots there without melting.
There's a more realistic and boring version of China Syndrome going on, the core slowly creeping down, they don't know for sure if it stopped. And that's just the reactor four.
It's not about the damage done (boo hoo some mutations), it's about the very real possibility of further breaches, of rogue fuel that has no way to be stopped, of a situation that it's nowhere near the one in Chernobyl. Here you cannot just put a sarcophagus on it.
It's next to the fucking ocean, you cannot possibly mess up.
Imagine covering that in a thousand tons of concrete and the realising there's this fucking spot where the fuel got out. You are fucked.
But yes, still overstated.
idk about Fuku, but have you seen Chernobyl?
Human presence was the most destructive force there.
Now, albeit a bit more radioactive, a forest grew back into the city.
