My computer gives me a warning when I try to reach that site.
it was interesting. It will also be interesting to read this author’s opinion after reviewing cancer and birth defect data in the following decades.
Yes. Fukushima is similar to Two Mile Island. Hysteria all over the place, nuclear plants shut down, no more nuclear development, and all over maybe ONE casualty.
The Tsunami waves did terrible damage to Japan, and they wrecked that nuclear plant. But the amount of radiation released is negligible—although I’ve heard people say that you shouldn’t go swimming in the ocean off California if the currents are flowing the wrong way.
Nuclear power is far cleaner and safer than other kinds of power—and it’s basically renewable, if someone would just cancel the Jimmy Carter rules that say you have to take all the nuclear waste out and bury it. No, burial of most “nuclear waste” is not a requirement of nuclear power as such—it’s a Jimmy Carter regulation, and you can guess how much sense anything that he did makes.
In my town there is a “superfund” site a huge park like area surrounded by a fence. When some methane gas leaked about 30 years ago it caused a nearby upscale housing development to stop in its tracks, new homes were boarded up.
I called the EPA to get the facts. The ONLY risk is that its possible some tiny streams will develop metal levels above those permitted because wild waterfowl might frequent them. Even this has NEVER happened. The site remains fenced 30 years later.
On NPR (of all places) a guy who sounded like he had impressive experience in these matters, said all those tanks where they are storing the “radioactive” water are in fact holding water that is far below international radioactive limits. There is no rational reason not to dump that clean water into the ocean and the only reason they don’t is they know there will be OUTRAGE over POISONING the oceans.
The author is correct in many of his points, but I would caution everyone to not gloss over the potential for real danger at Fukushima, and I certainly wouldn’t title an article ‘There was no Fukushima nuclear disaster’.
The melted remnants of the cores are sitting on their respective containment floors. Thus two layers of safety have been breached, with only one layer remaining. No one knows how well containment integrity withstood the massive earthquake, nor does anyone know when the next massive earthquake might occur.
Furthermore, thousands have been displaced from their homes, out of good sense caution.
However, the author is very correct that the danger that has actually ocurred is way overblown.
Thank you for this report, it mirrors my own beliefs so far.
This was so played up by the media that we had people here literally afraid of a cloud of radiation coming over and killing everyone. In the grand scheme of things the nuke part of it was a non-event.
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