I think the heading of this post testifies to the fact that the American media is far from the freedom proposed in their own 1st ? Constitutional Amendment.

Is the format of allowing someone like Anne Coulter, to carry on misinforming un-oppossed or without alternative views, healthy for public viewing.
I don't think it is.

When it comes to something of such public importance as a nuclear contamination event,
the bimbonic view should perhaps take a back seat in the public interest.

What is happening at Fukushima ?. I would really like to know.

What is happening at Fukushima ?. I would really like to know.
thinker2,
An earthquake happened at a huge nuclear plant. The plant is so big that they're now having a problem holding it together. They have had nuclear ships for decades now with no major problems. Some of nuclear ship technology is now 50 years old & still going. So, what does that tell us ? Keep the plants at a manageable size, that's what it's telling us. Like everything else, if you don't go overboard you won't get wet. Simple. In earthquake-prone area you could build floating power stations i.e. build them on land but do not fix them to the ground.
Someone who knows something about nuclear power could perhaps provide some info.

Individual,thinker 2 means;what is the severity of the situation and what are they doing to clean it up? Very little it seems.Chernobly was being buried in concrete well before Fukushima got this stage.The media is strangely quiet.Many of these poisons have half lives of millions of years.

what is the severity of the situation.
Arjay,
i'm fully aware of the gist. My gist was to point at this nonsense of big. Big ships, big planes, big power stations etc. Things are made so big that they became unmanageable & these creations are now biting us in the ar$e. What it also tells us is that no-one learnt anything from Chernobyl. The very smart scientists who design those plants weren't wise enough to take heed after Chernobyl. When it comes to satisfying consumer demand & big corporation ego nothing matters, not even nuclear dangers. The bosses aren't the ones getting nuked, they're sitting somewhere safe on piles (literally that is) of money made via extreme exploitation. Their only regret is the loss of revenue not the lives of people.

Individual,I agree with you.We are not at cross purposes.It is an absolute catastrophe,but we should not write off nuclear power in the future with better technology and safe guards.

Even in the light of our present technology they did everything wrong.It was a total stuff up!We should not be using uranium for a start.They use uranium because plutonium can be onsold to the nuke industry.The USA is using depleted uranium in conventional weaponery.This is criminal.It is all about power and money.Thorium is far safer.