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AsFarAsItGoes t1_j73zesr wrote

I hope this will stay in our collective memory for a long time, but I have zero confidence that it will last long enough.

Japan has old stone markers telling people to not build below this point, because that’s where the “last big tsunami” hit.

Japan is incredibly save, compared to how many different natural disasters they are prone to. But when nature starts acting up, we are still not much better than a butterfly in a storm.

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quequotion t1_j751g6u wrote

We still do a lot of flood / tsunami drills, but the nuclear distaster has been forgotten.

Japan just recently reauthorized all the old nuclear plants to reopen, extended their licences thirty years beyond their end-of-life, and continues to dump radioactive waste from this disaster into the ocean unabbated.

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