05-06-2011, 04:53 AM
I'll second or third that about Dr. Helen Caldecott! To me it is so sad and amazing that she is virtually unknown - worldwide - except among dedicated people who worry about human interventions destroying the environment and Peace.
Good article, Maggie. Sad, but true. Imagine trying to resettle all of the Japanese!!! They don't all have to leave - yet!....but if they don't do something drastic quick and stop the cover up, they could get to that point. In fact, due to all the secrecy, it hard to know how much radiation has been and what the minimum now is that will be released. It is however much more than 10% of Chernobyl, I think all independent nuclear scientists admit. At least half to the same amount, SO FAR....with more coming - lots more. Much to most seems to have gone into the groundwater and the ocean, but even that is not well known due to the secrecy of TEPCO and the Japanese Govt. I expect one can watch the exclusion zone slowly grow and grow. Tokyo is not that far away..... America has some of the exact same model reactors also near cities and a few sitting directly on earthquake faults. It is only a matter of time, and few know but radiation makes the steel and other metals used in reactors brittle - the main reason that nuclear power plants have a limited lifetime. As the metal becomes brittle with age of bombardment by radiation, the chances of a meltdown and/or catastrophic event increase greatly, with age.
Good article, Maggie. Sad, but true. Imagine trying to resettle all of the Japanese!!! They don't all have to leave - yet!....but if they don't do something drastic quick and stop the cover up, they could get to that point. In fact, due to all the secrecy, it hard to know how much radiation has been and what the minimum now is that will be released. It is however much more than 10% of Chernobyl, I think all independent nuclear scientists admit. At least half to the same amount, SO FAR....with more coming - lots more. Much to most seems to have gone into the groundwater and the ocean, but even that is not well known due to the secrecy of TEPCO and the Japanese Govt. I expect one can watch the exclusion zone slowly grow and grow. Tokyo is not that far away..... America has some of the exact same model reactors also near cities and a few sitting directly on earthquake faults. It is only a matter of time, and few know but radiation makes the steel and other metals used in reactors brittle - the main reason that nuclear power plants have a limited lifetime. As the metal becomes brittle with age of bombardment by radiation, the chances of a meltdown and/or catastrophic event increase greatly, with age.
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"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass