ziggurter [he/him, comrade/them]

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Cake day: 2023年5月11日

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  • No too on-board with the “false fears” title, TBH.

    The big deal about Fukushima wasn’t that waste water couldn’t be eventually treated and dealt with with moderate safety eventually—in theory. It’s more that they were leaking tons of it off-plan due to extremely poorly maintained facilities (the kind of shit capitalism—and the energy industry more specifically—depends on to remain profitable). Like, okay: you can treat it eventually in ways we don’t have to freak out too much about, but in the meantime your holding facilities are leaking the untreated waste water like a fuckin’ sieve, spewing tons of that caesium into the ocean in an uncontrolled manner. And that leakage was pretty well-documented at the time.

    It wasn’t just uninformed “lay-people” who were concerned about that leakage, either. It was knowledgeable physicists, nuclear engineers, and marine biologists.

    Big industry is always quick to “poo-poo” serious environmental concerns. We have oceans full of waste (nuclear, chemical, physical, and other), generations of radiation-poisoned Diné (Navajo) children from tailings and otherwise uncleaned Uranium mining, a planet that’s burning its way into human uninhabitability, and a whole lot of other harm that the energy industry—and it’s watchful big brother the arms industry—would just as soon like us to forget about. Let’s not help it along that way, please.