[HN Gopher] The Unfathomable Heart - On "Nukey Poo"
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       The Unfathomable Heart - On "Nukey Poo"
        
       Author : shortleash
       Score  : 22 points
       Date   : 2022-04-22 04:05 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | madaxe_again wrote:
       | The plaque on obs hill makes zero mention of the containment
       | failures, or the ensuing and ongoing cleanup - I was last in
       | McMurdo in '16 and they were still scraping off contaminated
       | tuff. I gather the bulk of the material was used for tarmac at a
       | naval base in the US.
       | 
       | Irony of ironies, as the author notes, the most visible thing
       | from obs hill are the _huge_ diesel tanks.
       | 
       | Real damn shame that it tainted the idea of nuclear power on
       | continent. Why they don't just run the whole show off a nuclear
       | icebreaker, I never quite understood, apart from the whole
       | "diesel is cheap" argument.
       | 
       | You'd think wind would be a good option, as it's often blowing a
       | hooley across the sound, but the turbines at Scott are apparently
       | out of service more often than not, either due to high winds, ice
       | accumulation, or frozen lubricants - and they're barely a decade
       | old.
        
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