Reply #29: In the final analysis...

[PamW]

And my own answer is, I don't know. I do know that you can basically do only two things with a waste product you cannot decompose, either dilute/disperse it or concentrate it somewhere presumably safe. Usually one of these choices is less bad than the other, and it's good to know which one that is.
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In the final analysis, the Fukushima accident will be less of an effect than the bombings of
Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In the months ahead, as radioactivity both decays and becomes diluted,
as happened at Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the levels will approach normal conditions and things
will get back to normal.

It always gets me in talking to some anti-nukes, they say that a city hit with a nuclear weapon
will be uninhabitable for hundreds of thousands of years. The counterexample is staring them
in the face; there are two cities that were hit with nuclear weapons, and they started resettling
within a year or so.

However, facts are inconvenient things when you are on a diatribe.

PamW