# Fukushima still melting down, still a nuclear disaster **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 3, 2013, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282 "2013-10-03T17:48:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/201 "2013-12-19T15:22:55Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Could somebody start a goddamn pit thread about how the sailors exposed to Fukushima raidiation now have cancer and are suing TEPCO? > > [http://youtu.be/OVSlT80q1io](http://youtu.be/OVSlT80q1io) > > [Reddit - Dive into anything](http://www.reddit.com/r/navy/comments/1swxab/51_sailors_from_uss_ronald_reagan_suffering/ce275i4) > > 51 soldiers with cancer? From the USS Ronald Reagan? > > Goddamn, how they gonna cover this up? Same way they covered up Godzilla’s attack on Fukushima with that “earthquake-tsunami” story. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/202 "2013-12-19T15:23:51Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Just remember, coal has killed far more people than nuclear. Try and keep that in mind yourself, since you don’t seem to be capable of grasping the concept. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/203 "2013-12-19T17:09:09Z")
> [@FXMastermind](#): > > Just remember, coal has killed far more people than nuclear. Yes, but nuclear has a long half life to catch up. Heh, heh, ketchup. ---
**Author:** ![Peaton\_of\_peat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecae2f/32.png) [@Peaton\_of\_peat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peaton_of_peat)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/204 "2013-12-19T18:27:24Z")
Yo just chiming in here to say that it’s pretty stupid to thank **FXMastermind** for anything other than being really dumb, or else concentrating all his dumbness in a couple of threads. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/205 "2013-12-19T18:30:26Z")
Well, I personally think FXMastermind is the bees knees and the only one of y’all that has the slightest bit of common sense. Keep in mind that he is saying Chernobyl and Fukashima are really bad and the rest of you are saying they aren’t any problem worth addressing. How stunningly and willfully blind and ignorant can you guys be? ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/206 "2013-12-19T19:19:28Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > Well, I personally think FXMastermind is the bees knees and the only one of y’all that has the slightest bit of common sense. Keep in mind that he is saying Chernobyl and Fukashima are really bad and the rest of you are saying they aren’t any problem worth addressing. How stunningly and willfully blind and ignorant can you guys be? Like I said, straw must be on sale. Basically, he’s an idiot of biblical proportions, and you thinking he’s the bees knees doesn’t exactly enhance your own reputation. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/207 "2013-12-19T23:17:16Z")
I’m not in the pit to enhance my reputation. I’m here to trash the reputations of people who design nuclear power plants. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/208 "2013-12-19T23:40:48Z")
> [@The\_Second\_Stone](#): > > I’m not in the pit to enhance my reputation. I’m here to trash the reputations of people who design nuclear power plants. It’s not working (well, the part about trashing the opposition…the part about not enhancing your rep is certainly doing wonders). Up the voltage. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/209 "2013-12-20T04:42:50Z")
Bees knees. Bees knees. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/210 "2013-12-20T05:19:59Z")
On a 1000+ year timescale, I firmly believe nuclear power has a role in human advancement. Right now we need laboratory demonstrations of the various latest-generation nuclear power generation architectures observed over a ([today’s date]-[date of Chernobyl accident]) timeframe. Nuclear power probably won’t grow much in this generation. I’d like to see a nuclear power plant on the moon, or a big asteroid, or Mars, manufacturing something very valuable and very energy-intensive. If the thing blows up, nobody gets hurt. If it works, all you have to worry about is delivering the product. Easy-peasy. ---
**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/211 "2013-12-20T05:27:03Z")
How far away is fusion power? We can’t keep “not quite” obtaining it forever…can we? ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/212 "2013-12-20T06:53:47Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > I’d like to see a nuclear power plant on the moon, or a big asteroid, or Mars, manufacturing something very valuable and very energy-intensive. If the thing blows up, nobody gets hurt. If it works, all you have to worry about is delivering the product. Easy-peasy. You don’t do your NIMBYism by halves, do you? ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/213 "2013-12-20T07:38:08Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > I’d like to see a nuclear power plant on the moon, or a big asteroid, or Mars, manufacturing something very valuable and very energy-intensive. If the thing blows up, nobody gets hurt. But what about, like, Moonal Warming, maaan ? ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/214 "2013-12-20T09:07:25Z")
> [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](#): > > I’d like to see a nuclear power plant on the moon, or a big asteroid, or Mars, manufacturing something very valuable and very energy-intensive. If the thing blows up, nobody gets hurt. If it works, all you have to worry about is delivering the product. Easy-peasy. You’re gonna need a lot of extension cords. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 1:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/215 "2013-12-20T13:35:42Z")
> [@Bryan\_Ekers](#): > > You’re gonna need a lot of extension cords. We should talk to those Romans about a new aqueduct, too. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [December 20, 2013, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/216 "2013-12-20T19:10:09Z")
> [@Trinopus](#): > > How far away is fusion power? We can’t keep “not quite” obtaining it forever…can we? The sun is a fusion reactor that bathes our planet in more usable energy every hour than is used in a year. The difficulty is harvesting that power, you need photovoltaics or other method to convert it to electricity. With experimental human made fusion reactors, virtually no work has been done at all on harvesting the energy, that is, converting the heat to steam and then electricity. ---
**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/217 "2013-12-21T03:40:38Z")
> [@Grumman](#): > > You don’t do your NIMBYism by halves, do you? I prefer to think of it as ‘risk aversion’. ---
**Author:** ![watchwolf49](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e9c0ed/32.png) [@watchwolf49](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/watchwolf49)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2013, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/218 "2013-12-21T22:44:37Z")
Chernobyl … who gains the most … wolves do !!! ---
**Author:** ![Cheshire\_Human](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Cheshire\_Human](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cheshire_Human)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/219 "2013-12-23T16:09:16Z")
> [@Peaton\_of\_peat](#): > > Yo just chiming in here to say that it’s pretty stupid to thank **FXMastermind** for anything other than being really dumb, or else concentrating all his dumbness in a couple of threads. I just mentally substitute **FXMasturbatingmindlessly** whenever I see his user name. And keep him on ignore. Mainly because of his unpleasant tendency in these threads to post ‘Walls o’ Links’ that I have to scroll through, said links generally having no actual relevance to his alleged ‘point’, but I will click on the ‘view post’ link that shows up for ‘ignored’ posters in other threads, since he confines that idiotic behavior to threads on nuclear power and global warming, and his posts in other threads are sometimes worthwhile. Which, of course, means I only read about 5% of his post-count, and maybe 0.01% percent of his word-count. The dipshit has practically nothing to say, but he sure is prolific in saying it. ---
**Author:** ![XT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xt/32/456_2.png) [@XT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XT)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2013, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282/220 "2013-12-23T16:20:30Z")
> [@watchwolf49](#): > > Chernobyl … who gains the most … wolves do !!! Yeah…but what do the fox say? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fukushima-still-melting-down-still-a-nuclear-disaster/670282.md?page=12)