Nuclear Disaster Unfolding In Fukushima Options

[bill]

This getting worse every day


http://allthingsnuclear.org/tagged/Japan_nuclear

[GroundPounder]

I think I understand english enough to understand what Palast have written and my reply that I would sign it meant just that I completely agree with his cited statement, because I happen to also know something about how the superbig companies work - it is not just corruption and criminal negligence, but unfortunately often also stupidity of the feeling that nothing can happen to them and that security measures are often decided there not by people who know the job, but by bureaucrats which are there just because they're politically fit - Murphy's laws are amplified the more the company grows. And the basic one is that shit happens.

ok , so having said 'that shit happens', you're of the opinion then, that 'shit' happening at a nuke plant is less of an issue than 'shit' happening at a conventional power plant? that's what you are on the record as attesting to?

[tumetuestumefais...]

ok , so having said 'that shit happens', you're of the opinion then, that 'shit' happening at a nuke plant is less of an issue than 'shit' happening at a conventional power plant? that's what you are on the record as attesting to?

Yeah looks like the by quake breached hydro plant in Fukushima killed hundreds of people adding another tsunami this time going from inland. At the Fukushima nuclear plant nobody died so far. With the coal plants you even don't need an accident, it is apparently considered perfectly normal that the pollution from the coal plants in USA kill 20000+ people yearly and just the J. Hansen is protesting against it and when he does so, than all cry, he misuses his position in NASA. (I strongly don't agree with Hansen's crazy "Venus run-out" AGW scaremongering, but I think he's right when protesting against the coal plants, because they daily kill the people - moreover paradoxically by radiation pollution which is 100 times bigger than from a nuke plant producing the same amount of electricity - because the burned coal and subsequently the dust in the smoke is relatively highly radioactive and toxic, because coal is one of the best binders of heavy metals including the radioactive ones - that's like you would take the nukeplant fuel rods, grind them and time to time put the powder in the fire there)

This post has been edited by tumetuestumefaisdubien: Mar 21 2011, 05:44 PM