[ExI] Fukushima now officially an emergency

[Eugen Leitl]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2013 at 08:54:26PM +0100, BillK wrote:

> Cleanup costs??? It appears that the realization is dawning that they
> can't clean it up at all - not in our lifetime.

Of course it can't -- but the cleanup costs need to be factored
into the ROI equation. New nuclear is already the most expensive
energy out there, and this is not going to make it look any 
cheaper. 
 
> The public won't be told until they have no choice and information
> gradually trickles out. But worst case is waiting centuries for the
> mess to gradually cool down, all the while spreading radioactive
> contamination through groundwater and ocean.

I don't care about that. I only care about 1 TW/year annual
substition rate, renewable, at sufficient EROEI. Nuke does
none of that, so that's the reason why it doesn't work.

A little bit of corium is just a distraction from the
core issue. Sure, if you ran 20 k reactors there be lots
of such fireworks, but that's immaterial: you can't run
that many, anyway.