As the dire news continues to leach out of Fukishima, the silver lining in its nuclear cloud is that renewable energy technologies, despite their daunting start-up costs, are receiving renewed scrutiny.
Make no mistake - given the trillions of dollars invested over the last five decades in nuclear energy, the industry and its lobbyists will not go down without a fight, promoting new, “safe” reactor designs, etc. etc. etc.
But the Fukushima debacle has finally bared the industry’s darkest secret, it inability to manage its nuclear waste. The six reactor TEPCO Daichi Fukushima stored all its waste onsite, and the spent fuel rods and their lack of cooling have been a major contributor to the high radiation levels observed around the facility. Worse for nuclear power proponents has been the reluctant admission by TECPO that three of the complex’s six reactors apparently did in fact suffer a meltdown.
So, what’s next?
Full article at: Why Japan will turn to Solar Energy
Also China is making great strides in production of solar panels...aka cheap panels right next door. I still like nuclear energy.
What is it with this guy? Nazi coal-liquification... now nuclear power has waste concerns? What a revelation...
By-the-by... per unit of production, no energy source can create more kw/h than that of nuclear energy (even when you factor in the cost and waste to produce the fuel source), and while it has an unwanted byproduct, how about you do an expose` on the health concerns of the chemical byproduct when creating solar panels or even that of the cool-ass curly light bulbs I now get from China anytime I need to replace a blown incandescent? Not as sexy.... yeah, yeah, I know...
Nuclear energy and its waste are immensely more efficient, containable and controllable than what is represented by a few remote incidents in the coarse of human history used to labeling it a disproportionate risk to reward. Trying to leverage the incident in Japan to the abandonment of an efficient means of producing energy is akin to making everyone ride bicycles since someone was hit by a car.
Radiation is everywhere, in everything, and you probably get more from sitting in front of your computer and talking on your cellphone than you would living within 5 miles of a power plant or enrichment facility.
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