Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees
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#2Not even 10,000 USD. A bit underwhelming even at the original award amount (3m Yen, ~27,600 USD).
Re: Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees
#3Not even 10,000 USD. A bit underwhelming even at the original award amount (3m Yen, ~27,600 USD).
It makes me think of a visual novel in which a character is bullied and has 1 million yen extorted by another character over a period of time.
We thought about and figured that was very possible.
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#4I used to be pro-nuclear, but here in South Africa, we can't even keep our coal plants running - nevermind nuclear. Last week a 930MW nuclear turbine at Koeberg went down because the cooling pump filters had not been cleaned in years and was filled with fish and jellyfish.
Small-scale, independent solar producers and perhaps geothermal or CSP (molten salt) seem to be the only strategies that can work.
There will always be corruption, war and fraud. To be pro-nuclear, you have to guarantee political stability for 100+ years, and I don't think many places could guarantee that.
Re: Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees
#5> But the amount of the additional damages should be reduced because individual circumstances of the evacuees should not be taken into account
I wonder what is the reasoning behind this.
Re: Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees
#6I used to be pro-nuclear, but here in South Africa, we can't even keep our coal plants running - nevermind nuclear. Last week a 930MW nuclear turbine at Koeberg went down because the cooling pump filters had not been cleaned in years and was filled with fish and jellyfish. Small-scale, independent solar producers and perhaps geothermal or CSP (molten salt) seem to be the only strategies that can work. There will alwa…
That how I view it too. Especially with the idea of smaller and more reactors somebody somewhere somewhen will screw up big time.
Re: Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees
#7I used to be pro-nuclear, but here in South Africa, we can't even keep our coal plants running - nevermind nuclear. Last week a 930MW nuclear turbine at Koeberg went down because the cooling pump filters had not been cleaned in years and was filled with fish and jellyfish. Small-scale, independent solar producers and perhaps geothermal or CSP (molten salt) seem to be the only strategies that can work. There will alwa…
> There will always be corruption, war and fraud. To be pro-nuclear, you have to guarantee political stability for 100+ years, and I don't think many places could guarantee that.
Indeed. This is the crux of it. Nuclear run by the US military? Very safe. Nuclear (as a power source, not talking munitions) run by the rest of the world as a commercial operation? Fraught with peril. I'm not anti-nuclear; I'm anti-humans-running-nuclear-for-profit.
It's time to move to renewables, batteries, and transmission networks, full steam ahead.
https://pvbuzz.com/renewables-capacity-overwhelms-coal-gas-o... (US: Over the next three years, renewables will add nearly 50,000-MW of new capacity and be more than a quarter of total, while gas, coal, oil, and nuclear will drop by 4,200-MW)
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/mar/12/wind-and... (Wind and solar plants will soon be cheaper than coal in all big markets around world, analysis finds)
Re: Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees
#8> But the amount of the additional damages should be reduced because individual circumstances of the evacuees should not be taken into account I wonder what is the reasoning behind this.
The reasoning is probably that individuals have individual problems that are in addition to being evacuees from the disaster.
Problem is, you can't separate that from the disaster. Problems combine. If you have two problems A and B in your life, the impact isn't simply A + B. It could be as much as A x B.
If B is the fault of someone who caused an accident, there should be some room to go after more than just B-sized compensation.
But, anyway, this seems to illustrate the court system at work. It's not simply the case that one side gets everything that they want. That's why you have to sue for more than you're willing to settle for; ask for a pie in the sky, settle for a muffin.
Re: Tokyo High Court slashes damages to Fukushima nuclear disaster evacuees
#9I used to be pro-nuclear, but here in South Africa, we can't even keep our coal plants running - nevermind nuclear. Last week a 930MW nuclear turbine at Koeberg went down because the cooling pump filters had not been cleaned in years and was filled with fish and jellyfish. Small-scale, independent solar producers and perhaps geothermal or CSP (molten salt) seem to be the only strategies that can work. There will alwa…
> There will always be corruption, war and fraud. To be pro-nuclear, you have to guarantee political stability for 100+ years, and I don't think many places could guarantee that. Indeed. This is the crux of it. Nuclear run by the US military? Very safe. Nuclear (as a power source, not talking munitions) run by the rest of the world as a commercial operation? Fraught with peril. I'm not anti-nuclear; I'm anti-humans-r…
> I'm anti-humans-running-nuclear-for-profit.
Chernobyl wasn't run for profit.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
> There will always be corruption, war and fraud. To be pro-nuclear, you have to guarantee political stability for 100+ years, and I don't think many places could guarantee that. Indeed. This is the crux of it. Nuclear run by the US military? Very safe. Nuclear (as a power source, not talking munitions) run by the rest of the world as a commercial operation? Fraught with peril. I'm not anti-nuclear; I'm anti-humans-r…
> I'm anti-humans-running-nuclear-for-profit. Chernobyl wasn't run for profit.
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