by Shivetya on 5/20/19, 3:21 PM
by erentz on 5/20/19, 3:18 PM
by cameldrv on 5/20/19, 3:56 PM
Pretty bad reporting. OK, it contains Pu-239, but how much? If it leaks, what effects will that have?
by api on 5/20/19, 4:14 PM
One "meta" way of looking at things like this is that it represents a part of the technical debt left behind by the industrial revolution. Eventually we have to go back and fix this stuff, but as with technical debt in most code bases we tend to ignore it. Unfortunately technical debt is subject to compound interest, so the longer we ignore it the more costly it is to eventually deal with.
by Circuits on 5/20/19, 5:24 PM
Some messes are just too big to clean up. They knew going into the testing that it was going to kill thousands and thousands of natives and effect native people in a terrible way for generations to come but they didn't give a shit then and they dont give a shit now. That's why most of the natives have 6 fingers and 4 toes, are sterile and the land is poisoned and will stay poisoned. You can deny it all you want but if it was not true shit like this wouldn't be so common place. We aren't the only ones and this isn't the only site and it's not just radiation, its carbon, its carcinogens, it's plastic... there is a whole boat load of shit like this that everyone pretends to care about when their talking about it with their husband or best friend but seems to have no trouble sleeping off the next day. What makes us think we can all just act like animals one day and civilized humans that next... I have no clue but that's reality. People ask: "Oh what can I do, I am so small and the problem is so big!" idk but I do know this if you ACTUALLY cared you would figure out some way to help. What's the difference between pretending to care and actually caring you ask? It's simple, doing something about it versus talking about doing something about it, it's that simple, that's the difference. Write your governor, send some money, do anything or just admit you don't care, and do nothing. That's what the US government is counting on you to do and that's why they got away with this and that's why they will get away with similar shit in the future.
by mimixco on 5/20/19, 3:03 PM
by jason_zig on 5/20/19, 3:12 PM
Does anyone else feel helpless when reading stuff like this? Is there anything I can do to make things better in these scenarios?
by JSeymourATL on 5/20/19, 3:44 PM
by sunstone on 5/21/19, 7:17 PM
The people who designed it have now passed on so it has met its designed lifetime.
by RappingBoomer on 5/20/19, 3:09 PM
so we just have to go in and fix it up. No big deal.
by Grazester on 5/20/19, 2:58 PM
by anovikov on 5/20/19, 3:16 PM
I don't think there's so much activity left after so many years
by colordrops on 5/20/19, 5:00 PM
I hear things like "we should go full nuclear, modern nuclear reactors are safe" all the time, yet this ignores externalities, unknown unknowns, human incompetence, and the unexpected. Who would expect the ocean to rise over your nuclear waste dome? Have people suggesting this forgotten the allegory of the unsinkable ship the Titanic? Entropy always wins in the end.
by 781 on 5/20/19, 3:07 PM
More FUD. Nuclear energy is the safest energy.