[Oldeconomybuyer]

The global warmists would rather see Japan de-industrialize.

[chris37]

The Japanese tsunami illustrated one thing quite clearly.

Mother Nature > all.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

What is this going to do to Japan's Manga industry?

Most of the plots seemed to center around some horrifying post-apocalyptic future of citizens fending off mutants disfigured and transformed by nuclear accidents.

[dsc]

Fools, damn fools, and idiots.

[RayChuang88]

That's why Japan is looking with great interest a new generation of much safer reactors--very likely the molten salt reactor, which uses thorium-232 dissolved in molten fluoride salts as nuclear fuel. Unlike uranium-fueled reactors, MSR's are extremely safe to run, and an emergency shutdown (SCRAM) on the reactor is just dumping the liquid nuclear fuel out of the reactor, very important in earthquake-prone Japan.

[technically right]

Well Mother Jones, this is what most of us in the normal world call “reality”. Developed, industrialized societies need reliable and competitively priced electricity. End of story.

[Myrddin]

Global warming is a hoax. Japan is right to ignore it. The crappy reactors at Fukushima were shattered by the earthquake. The cooling pipes were severed. The tsunami just poured insult onto an already hopeless failure by inundating the backup diesel generators. They weren't going to help anyway with the shattered pipes. The cores melted down through the containment vessels. The natural flow of fresh water off the nearby mountains has washed radioactive material into the Pacific ocean constantly since Mar 11, 2011. The problem is beyond current technical capability to solve.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Isn’t Japan dead already? I was pretty sure that’s what some people said would happen by now, with the Fukishima disaster. Also, I think California was supposed to be uninhabitable.

Which is pretty much is, but not because of radiation.