Japan Says World's Largest Nuclear Plant To Restart (semafor.com)
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- News link: https://slashdot.org/story/25/11/21/1827242/japan-says-worlds-largest-nuclear-plant-to-restart
- Source link: https://www.semafor.com/article/11/21/2025/japan-says-worlds-largest-nuclear-plant-to-restart
> The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa site closed in 2012, as Japan -- which previously generated 30% of its electricity from nuclear power -- shuttered most of its fleet in the wake of the Fukushima meltdown. But like much of the world, it is looking once again to nuclear power for reliable, low-carbon energy, especially in the face of high gas and oil prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It has restarted 14 out of 54 plants and announced plans for a first new reactor since the disaster.
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They haven't solved any of the social problems (Score:1)
That caused the Fukushima disaster.
They still have a weak regulatory environment for businesses. Remember folks the public blamed the engineers for the disaster not the CEOs who wouldn't listen to the engineers when they were told that the next big tsunami would cause a disaster and that they need it off site generators and to reinforce the storm wall.
The engineers knew that the Fukushima reactor was going to melt down. It wasn't if, it was when.
And I will say it again, the public blamed the eng
Re:They haven't solved any of the social problems (Score:4, Insightful)
I understand your pathological need to blame any and everything including tsunamis on capitalism, but do you have any proof the public blamed the engineers over the CEOs for the disaster?
And by the way, you really want to dump this on capitalism? Seriously? If you’re itching to pick a fight, let’s bring Chernobyl into this—because that wasn’t some act of nature. That was your beloved system basically nuking itself through sheer incompetence, or maybe it was because it couldn't stand communism anymore. Either way, it took everyone and their neighbors along for the ride.
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John Oliver had a piece this year on Companies like Enron, and Boeing. He made some very good points. Lets see... There is a bank that was blatantly laundering money for Cartels and Gangs, the US Government said.. hey stop, i'm giving you three years probation. They kept doing it. Nothing happened. At Boeing, over 300 people died after many engineers said their airplane design was crap. They were put on probation, nothing happened. Hundreds of people died because a defective switch in GM cars,
You know you could Google (Score:2)
And read up on the history of the Fukushima disaster. You could read up on the long history of engineers warning that a large tsunami was going to cause a meltdown and that it could be easily prevented by reinforcing and building up the wall that protected the area in order to buy time and then having off-site generators that could be brought on to prevent the meltdown from happening.
The problem here isn't capitalism it's fascism. Specifically it's a ruling elite that is completely above the law. As the
Re:They haven't solved any of the social problems (Score:4, Interesting)
It wasn't just the generators or sea wall. Another one of the problems is that they never installed the hydrogen reformers designed to burn off the hydrogen buildup from an overheating core safely.
As recommended by the reactor manufacturer and installed on US plants.
There would have been a lot less boom with them installed.
it's time for an new godzilla! (Score:1)
it's time for an new godzilla!
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Covidzilla!
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I can never tell if you are serious or insane. Ultimately though, that kind of dedication to a troll persona is insane, so I guess you're insane either way.
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> A worker who handles a radioactive rod without protection may die in days without immediate and focused chiropractic treatments.
ChatGPT, you have a typo there. That should read:
"A worker who handles a radioactive rod without protection will die in days regardless of any chiropractic treatments."
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Chatbots were a lot stupider and more incoherent then, yes.
Are there eels in your hovercraft?
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Are there eels in your hovercraft?
I'm old enough to know a Monty Python reference when I see one. But I don't get the context here.
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> A worker who handles a radioactive rod without protection may die in days without immediate and focused chiropractic treatments.
Or with treatments, because it isn't really relevant. No part of your spine is going to prevent ionizing radiation from damaging cells and DNA. If your body loses all of its bone marrow, your spine is not going to be able to create new stem cells.