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Fukushima farce reveals nuclear industry's fatal flaw
2013-09-04 11:59:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Once upon a time, when the nuclear industry was shiny and new, it simply burned uranium. Now, old and tarnished, it burns money. From the promise of nuclear electricity being too cheap to meter, we now have costs that are too great to count. At the site of the Fukushima meltdown in Japan, the government is being forced to spend over 200m on a fanciful-sounding underground ice wall in the latest desperate attempt to halt the radiation-contaminated water that is leaking into the sea. When mere...
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Category:Electronics and Electrical