A very short sighted attitude, but given the ignorance portrayed in the MSM concerning the situation at Fukushima, and the hysteria created by the reports, I can see why he'd say that.
I enclose my letter to the editor of the Wall St. Journal. My thoughts from early March did not get published, yet all of the frantic actions of the past few weeks stem from the one basic design flaw - the height of the emergency generators!!
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To the editor:
It’s amazing that both the Japan nuclear reactor problem and Katrina inundating New Orleans stem from the exact same design flaw.
Emergency Generators!
In Katrina’s case the huge generators needed to power the massive pumps to pump out the below sea- level city were placed near sea level, so the hurricane driven seawater overran the generators, disabling the massive pumps. The same thing happened to a New Orleans hospital as the ground level emergency generator was flooded out.
In the Japanese nuclear case, all reactors in the plant automatically shut down perfectly during the earthquake, yet the minute’s later tsunami overran the emergency generators, killing emergency electrical power needed to run coolant water into the already shut down reactors.
It’s the same simple engineering problem – emergency generators- and their fuel tanks- sited too low to the anticipated sea level.
We don’t have an unsafe nuclear technology; we have an emergency generator location problem.
Roger Spence
Rockport Texas