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Agencies that promote nuclear power are quietly managing its disaster narrative

Originally published: Beyond Nuclear International on September 24, 2023 by Kolin Kobayashi (more by Beyond Nuclear International) | (Posted Oct 09, 2023)

Let’s start with the total amount of radiation that the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant STILL contains today. The spent fuel at the site contains 85 times more cesium-137 than Chornobyl and 50,000 to 100,000 times more than the Hiroshima bomb.
What Bill Gates has wrong about “advanced” nuclear reactors

Originally published: Union of Concerned Scientists on April 13, 2021 by Colleen MacDonald (more by Union of Concerned Scientists) | (Posted Apr 19, 2021)

If nuclear power needs to be part of the climate solution, why not continue to use what we have? I understand the reactors that we have are aging out. But why not either shore those up or use the same design that we currently have where we wouldn’t have to go through the lengthy and costly development phase?