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Originally Posted by Oberon
I can believe this, although I think it unlikely that such circumstances mirroring that of Fukushima would take place, but I can believe that there are certain safeguards not in place.
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How are things going in Germany after all nuclear plants were shut down? How much oil do you import for energy reasons now? How much coal is burnt? What's the emissions levels like?
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Speaking of Fukushima, I did some back of the envelope calculations on what if Fukushima produced oil rather than neutrons, based on the capacity of Fukushima and the daily spillage from the Deepwater Horizon the resulting spill would have been something like 60 times worse than the Macondo blowout (assuming that plutonium is as dangerous to the environment as crude oil, which it is not).
I found
this to be interesting bedtime reading.
