Bags of debris from Fukushima disaster swept away in typhoon

I&#x27;m sure this washed away debris will have a minimal effect on humanity overall, but for some people and animals, it might be a life-changing event.<p>I really want to be a proponent of nuclear, but I don&#x27;t see how any country can guarantee political stability for 100+ years. Here in South Africa, the state-owned Eskom power utility can&#x27;t even keep our coal plants running for 12 months at a time. With re-election every 4 years and rampant corruption, it feels like we&#x27;ll need a new set of laws to govern nuclear power that operates on longer time scales.

Note that there wasn&#x27;t a roof over these bags. Understandable 1 year after the catastrophy but not now, almost a decade later. The typhoon didn&#x27;t even have to blow off the roof.<p>This isn&#x27;t an engineering problem. The art to build roofs is wel researched. It&#x27;s a human problem. That nuclear is only &quot;cheap&quot; if you aren&#x27;t building roofs over little&#x2F;medium radioactive waste storage sites, or don&#x27;t design reactors to be as safe as possible. More safe == more expensive.<p>I wonder what happens the next time a tsunami similar to the one from 2011 hits the fukushima site. How much better prepared are they now?

Japan has been struggling to deal with the scope and cost of their disaster.<p>From last month:<p>&gt; The operator of the ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will have to dump huge quantities of contaminated water from the site directly into the Pacific Ocean, Japan’s environment minister has said<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2019&#x2F;sep&#x2F;10&#x2F;fukushima-japan-will-have-to-dump-radioactive-water-into-pacific-minister-says" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theguardian.com&#x2F;environment&#x2F;2019&#x2F;sep&#x2F;10&#x2F;fukushim...</a>

This bears to me a striking resemblance to maintaining software. The temptation is to think, &quot;Right, that solution works, now our work is done.&quot; But no, maintenance is a job that never ends.

Nuke is too dangerous and can&#x27;t be deployed everywhere. Solar and wind is much lower cost to install and operate. Plus, low risk. The more distributed solutions will win.