Community | April 13, 2011 | 14 comments

Nuclear Nightmare Getting Worse, Yet Propaganda Continues

source: http://globalpoliticalawakening.blogspot.com/2011/04/nuclear-nightmare-getting-worse-yet.html

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"The troubled nuclear plant… is facing a wide array of fresh threats that could persist indefinitely, and that in some cases are expected to increase as a result of the very measures being taken to keep the plant stable,” according to a confidential NRC assessment.
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14 comments // Nuclear Nightmare Getting Worse, Yet Propaganda Continues

  • NiceN
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      NiceN  

    • While it is true that the nuclear nightmare is getting worse by the second, everyone should know that it has only begun. The Pacific will be gone, and the Gulf is already dead, why would anyone ask if the end is near; the end is already here.

    • 1 year ago
  • Angeliron
  • toastyguy11
  • ejasun
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      ejasun  
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    • The United States heavily promoted nuclear energy in Japan after World War II, and, despite an initially reluctant public, the industry eventually flourished.

      President Dwight Eisenhower's promises of peaceful nuclear energy applications masked a huge increase in the US arsenal, as well as an increased reliance on nuclear weapons in war planning.

      The catastrophe at Fukushima could lead to a reassessment of nuclear energy in Japan that leads the country to reject the perceived necessity of the US nuclear umbrella.

      the terrible nuclear catastrophe in Fukushima has forced the Japanese to deal for a third time with the nightmarish side of the nuclear age and the fact that their nuclear program was born not only in the fantasy of clean, safe power, but also in the willful forgetting of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the buildup of the US nuclear arsenal.

      A reckoning with Japan's nuclear legacy is now taking place. Hopefully, the Japanese will move forward from this tragedy to set a path toward both green energy and repudiation of deterrence under the US nuclear umbrella, much as they blazed a path with their Peace Constitution and antinuclearism following the horrors of World War II.

      http://thebulletin.org/web-edition/features/japans-nuclear-history-perspective-e...

    • 1 year ago
  • ThoughtNu
  • simplecj
  • Wicks934
  • shengled
  • Jake_Leonard
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      Jake_Leonard  
    • shengled:

      Nuclear power is actually pretty safe. With these plants, especially in the United States, there are little if any shortcuts. In other words, people know their stuff on site. Nobody is somewhere they're not supposed to be. Now, there are a combination of human errors (unavoidable) and technical failures which for example led to the 3 Mile Island situation. But ultimately, we face the issue of having a passive, gradual damage/pollution via fossil fuels--coal/oil, etc--which contribute to 60% of the United States' grid output. There is absolutely no way Americans are willing to change their lifestyle to reduce the power stemming off of either passive pollution, or incidental damage (nuclear instability). We are in a catch-22, being on a stepping stone toward sustainability.

    • 1 year ago
  • David_H
  • Jake_Leonard
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      Jake_Leonard  
    • David_H:

      And fracking is a good example of damaging our environment and causing major problems down the road for natural gas, unfortunately...

      Would you mind elaborating on these heavy water reactors? To be honest, I haven't heard of these. Are they much more expensive?

    • 1 year ago
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