Comments by "Seven Proxies" (@sevenproxies4255) on "Life In Fukushima 7 Years After Nuclear Disaster | ASIAN BOSS" video.

  1. I'm happy to see that the locals are as unafraid as they are. Nuclear energy is very beneficial and ironically one of the most "clean" ways to generate electricity compared to burning coal and the like. And I really hate how fear-mongerers across the world try to stigmatize nuclear power as much as they do. More research and improvements to nuclear reactors mean that there's less nuclear waste to store. And with the fourth generation of reactors developed, you can actually use spent fuel that we previously regarded as mere nuclear waste and use it one more time to get more energy, and even less nuclear waste from it than before. This is an goal worth pursuing. But many enviromentalist groups try to put a stop to it, mostly out of irrational fear rather than genuine knowledge of the science involved. That said, i'm not entirely sure that nuclear reactors is very good for Japan overall. You just have too much problems with earthquakes as it is, and a nuclear reactor needs a solid and stable foundation to be able to operate safely. So in Japan, it might be for the best to pursue other methods of energy production. Although I suppose Japan could buy land in foreign countries, located more centrally on a tectonic plate (where earthquakes are less of an issue) and install nuclear reactors over there and using conduits back to Japan to transfer the electricity.
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  2. BH: But when people are irrationally afraid of even visiting Fukushima, the plane analogy works quite well. And as they frequently said, there are places om earth, where people live, that have higher amounts of background radiation than Fukushima does.
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