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It is like the Nuclear Industry is doing all it can do destroy their own industry. Recently it seemed people were looking seriously at Nuclear Power for Climate Change.

With this and the article below, I think it will be next to impossible for anyone to build a new Nuclear Power Plant. That is sad since I think Nuclear could have been a good short/medium term bridge to renewals.

https://gothamist.com/news/dumping-radioactive-water-hudson-...

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It’s tritium. It sounds like it’s at concentrations that are below the safety thresholds. You have tritium in your tap water.

It's worth adding too that the US for some reason has insanely low thresholds. Orders of magnitude lower than most other developed countries.

>It sounds like it’s at concentrations that are below the safety thresholds

And even if it's not, regulatory bodies in cahoots with the industry can always raise the safety thresholds! Worked wonders in the past!

Nuclear fission still has a long-term role to play in that it has a tiny land/material/resource footprint. With breeder reactors, we can power all of humanity for 4 billion years using the existing uranium and thorium resources. Pretty long term IMHO. Not just a bridge, but an asymptotic state.

If you think this leak, at these concentrations was unacceptable, we are going to need to shut down every chemical and industrial process in the world, starting today, and regress to a stone-age sort of level of technology.

Things leak all the time in industrial work. This one was not particularly damaging, but because it's nuclear, it's under a million times more microscopic scrutiny than any equivalent leak from a chemical plant.

Ever hear of NIMBY ? Here is a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NIMBY

It does not matter if it is harmless, people reading these articles will freak out should a proposal be submitted for a new Plant.

So yes, these articles will put the last nail in the coffin of the nuclear industry in the US. All they need to do is reach the mainstream press.

So your attitude to misinformation is that we should just give up, and act as if it's true? Should we stop doing vaccinations too, just because some people believe they contain 5G chips?

This is alarmist and anti-science and moderators should remove this post.

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