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Ignoring Fukushima at our peril.

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Belly...sorry, I just mist-(punt intended:)..your point, and the most poisonous substance ever.......Can you give all the safe absolution's concerning the objectives.

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Posted by planet 3, Sunday, 8 April 2012 7:29:20 PM
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I dont mean to be a thread hog....Nuclear energy was a national strategic priority in Japan, but there has been concern about the ability of Japan's nuclear plants to withstand seismic activity. The Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant was completely shut down for 21 months following an earthquake in 2007.

Following an earthquake, tsunami, and the failure of cooling systems at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011, a nuclear emergency was declared. This was the first time a nuclear emergency had been declared in Japan, and 140,000 residents within 20 km of the plant were evacuated. The total amount of radioactive material released is unclear, as the crisis is ongoing.[3]

On 6 May 2011, Prime Minister Naoto Kan ordered the Hamaoka Nuclear Power Plant be shut down as an earthquake of magnitude 8.0 or higher is likely to hit the area within the next 30 years.[4][5][6] Kan wanted to avoid a possible repeat of the Fukushima disaster.[7] On 9 May 2011, Chubu Electric decided to comply with the government request. Kan later called for a new energy policy with less reliance on nuclear power.[8]

Problems in stabilizing the Fukushima I nuclear plant have hardened attitudes to nuclear power. As of June 2011, "more than 80 percent of Japanese now say they are anti-nuclear and distrust government information on radiation".[9] Post-Fukushima polls suggest that somewhere "between 41 and 54 percent of Japanese support scrapping, or reducing the numbers of, nuclear power plants".[10] Tens of thousands of people marched in central Tokyo in September 2011, chanting "Sayonara nuclear power" and waving banners, to call on Japan's government to abandon atomic energy.[11]


So more people means more unclear power-plants.

8 billion people and the earths movements are no factors to our futures of all life:).....nice thoughts.....and I wish you well.

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Posted by planet 3, Sunday, 8 April 2012 7:56:12 PM
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Q:How many radiation related deaths from the Fukushima disaster?

A:Zero.

Q:How many smoking related deaths each year in Japan?

A:130,000.

Fukushima is a 50 year old design, utilises about 1% the energy of its fuel rods, and should have been decommissioned years ago. Gen 4 reactor designs by comparison will be intrinsically safe and utilise almost all of the energy of their fuel.

It is harder to imagine a worse nuclear accident, and the plant is still far from safe. But the fact that nobody has died from radiation exposure would suggest that nuclear power is much safer than the scaremongers would have you believe.

btw planet 3, do you smoke?
Posted by Fester, Sunday, 8 April 2012 11:05:08 PM
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Fester,I'm not making arugument about nuclear power.They need to build a large crane and container that can remove these spent rods and bury them deep in the ground in a stable geological area.Currently they do not have the machinery or technology to be able to do this safely.

Nuclear Fission is not the way to create energy.The waste lasts too long and is difficult to store.The future is nuclear fusion or energy like that of the sun but we currently don't have the technology or the will to go there,since there is too much money wound up in nuclear fission.Stupid ,lazy,greedy humans are at it again.

All the USA and NATO are consumed with at the moment is containing China/Russia by taking as much oil on the planet as they can.The Western Oligarchs are power hungry morons who cannot put aside for a moment their ambitions for "Global Governance" and work co-operatively with the foes they have purposefully created.
Posted by Arjay, Monday, 9 April 2012 1:33:36 AM
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Planet 3 you come armed with blinkers of your own making.
And I suspect, given your own words by invitation.
I find no trouble in haveing opinions much different than yours.
You will be used to that, many do.
I now and again feel like giggling.
As such as you tell us coal is killing the planet, petroleum products, coal seam gas.
But can not see, properly used supervised and monitored many country's are benefiting from.
Nuclear power.
Posted by Belly, Monday, 9 April 2012 5:07:45 AM
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"But the fact that nobody has died from radiation exposure would suggest that nuclear power is much safer than the scaremongers would have you believe.





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"Criminally Irresponsible"

Notes from interview on Russia Today

British scientist, Christopher Busby says that there is significant radioactive contamination in the 200 km area around the Fukushima plant, including Tokyo and areas further to the South, where there is an "enormous rage" at the slow pace of the release of information and at the officials who have downplayed the seriousness of the situation, which Busby terms "Criminally Irresponsible." He believes people in the affected area should evacuate.

Busby says the failure of Japanese officials to properly manage this historic public health crisis is due to enormous pressure from the powerful nuclear industry and its shareholders.

Busby predicts that, similar to Chernobyl, the area immediately surrounding Fukushima will become a permanent "Exclusion Zone" and that those evacuated will never be able to go home.

So far, the death toll of the devastating earthquake and tsunami is estimated to be 13 thousand people.


btw planet 3, do you smoke?.....Not yet:).....however death by lung cancer seems to be the less painful of the two.

Blinkers...Iam not a horse:) but unclear power technology is just not worth it. Right now, storage in below ground bed rock is also unsafe. People for get that the earth is always on the move, so there is no such thing as safe.

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Posted by planet 3, Monday, 9 April 2012 11:05:18 AM
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