<story><title>Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-22/japan-pictures-likely-show-melted-fukushima-fuel-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Boothroid</author><text>A common response from defenders of nuclear when concerns are raised is to point to the impact of other energy sources, and say that nuclear is better in those terms. But I just cannot get away from the thought that whilst in aggregate those other forms of energy (fossil fuels, etc) might be provably worse than well managed nuclear within a particular analysis, humanity does not seem capable of this good management of nuclear, and when things do go wrong with fossil fuels they don&amp;#x27;t have the same potential to go quite so spectacularly bad. Yes an oil spill can affect a large area, but you don&amp;#x27;t get harmful particles washing up on the coast of the US from a spill in Japan in the same way, for example.</text></comment>
<story><title>Japan Pictures Likely Show Melted Fukushima Fuel for First Time</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-07-22/japan-pictures-likely-show-melted-fukushima-fuel-for-first-time</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>marze</author><text>I still don&amp;#x27;t see why they are spending years trying to make rad hard robots.&lt;p&gt;A long steel tube with fiber optics to pipe in light, mirrors and optics to transmit an image down the tube would be infinitely easier. They&amp;#x27;d need to burn a few holes, but none of the reactor vessels are intact so that wouldn&amp;#x27;t allow additional radioactive material to escape.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m surprised the Japanese decision to dump the all the tritium contaminated water into the ocean hasn&amp;#x27;t made more news.</text></comment>