Nuclear Power: The Thousand Year-Plus Albatross Around Humanity’s Neck - CounterPunch.org

Nuclear Power: The Thousand Year-Plus Albatross Around Humanity’s Neck - CounterPunch.org: Every day Fukushima produces contaminated water. So it’s not as if dumping 1.37 million tons of these atomic dregs over 30 years will be the end of it. After all, 30 years is not set in stone. It could take longer to dismantle the reactors, remove the nuclear fuel and all the buildings. Meanwhile the good news is that some isotopes have half-lives of only 30 years, that is cesium-137 and strontium-90; but the bad news is Plutonium-239 has a half-life of an eye-popping 24,000 years. So yes, you got it, Japan is polluting the ocean for thousands of years.