So it turns out that nadinbrzezinski was correct re Fukushima

[AtheistCrusader]

247. Where's the coverup?

Nada was 'right' in some respects, sure. But THIS article, THIS data point, Tepco admitted years ago. This article/information release confirms/proves what everyone including Tepco was publicly stating in 2011. Previously it was generally accepted, now we know.

I love nuclear power. Always have. But I no longer trust corporations motivated by profit, nor governments, to implement it with the correct margin of public safety. And that is near-tears levels of rage-inducing frustration for me, because here on the west coast, all signs point to 'we're fucked' from climate change/mostly coal and petrochemical burning. We're fucked folks. If the drought predictions are even half true, we're fucked.

In WA, we get 72% of our power from Hydro. That's vulnerable to drought. The Columbia generating station reactor is also vulnerable to drought. Uses the river as it's ultimate heat sink. All that shit can go offline in a drought. Meaning, we won't have power to run desalinization plants we OUGHT to be building *RIGHT NOW*. We've foregone gigawatts of generating capacity here on the west coast. Satsop. SONGS. Just written off.

It's going to get real uncomfortable around here, real quick if this mega drought materializes. We had a chance to ease the pain, and we didn't. We can't build wind/solar/tidal fast enough to make up for the gigawatts we threw away. AND we have to build the desalinization plants still.

We're lined up to experience a perfect storm of very little power, just gas, wind, and solar, and no water. Fucked.