[Winona Online Democracy]
Is the idea of
exploding nuclear waste underwater in the ocean (and then being diluted) really
being considered, as Mel Rennels suggest? I would welcome a nuclear engineer or
physicist to elaborate on the idea. My limited understanding of such
things suggests that this might be an underwater event similar to what happened
in the air in the Chernobyl disaster in the Soviet Union in 1986. The
Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, releasing its radiation into the
atmosphere. A few dozen people were killed immediately, either in the
plant or as they responded to the blast. Reliable estimates put
the number of others who died as a result of helping with the cleanup
at a minimum of 25,000, and perhaps as high as 100,000. Many
thousands of others who were children at the time developed thyroid cancer and
other cancers. A plume of radioactive air wafted over northern and eastern
Europe causing other lesser problems.
This was one power
plant. If we dump and explode the waste from several, or several hundred,
nuclear plants in the ocean every year, at a minimum millions of fish would
be killed, we would have radioactive water washing up on shore around the world
in the weeks and months following each event, rain from the ocean's evaporation
would be radioactive, and people would be effected eventually. I'd
love to see more about this, if it is indeed a serious
proposal.
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