60,000 people stood up against nuclear

well said my freind, in dew time karma always prevails

Hope this will happen sooner.

The notion that nuclear waste is unique in terms of long-term hazard is a myth. Actually, many (if not most) of our other industrial waste streams will have a much greater impact on the environment and public health thousands/millions of years from now. It's just that we've (arbitrarily) decided to only care for the nuclear waste stream, and have demanded absolute proof of total containment.

1,000,000 from Chernobyl. We need to broaden our approach and learn about the systems all around us. Tesla had the means to pull free energy from the air around us, but that is now a gov't weapon. We know nothing on purpose.

1,000,000? You need to read some actual history. The guy in the VERY CENTER of Chernobyl accident actually survived.

people have been dying from that radiation since it happened...look yourself the truth was only recently revealed quietly.

Heck, coal mining accidents are a negligible component to coal's negative impacts. Scientific studies show that coal pollution causes hundreds of thousands (perhaps as many as a million) deaths every single year, along with global warming. There is universal scientific agreement that nuclear's impacts are a tiny fraction of those from fossil fuels. Fossil fuels cause more harm to public health and the environment (deaths, etc..) than the Fukushima event every single day. Fossil fuels are estimated to cause ~1000 deaths per day, worldwide. Few if any deaths from Fukushima are projected. Certainly way less than 1000 (total).

Uh yeah, that estimate is more than a factor of 100 high. Try some credible sources next time (like UN scientists). Even if that estimate were true, however, it would only about equal the number of deaths fossil fuels kill every single year, without even considering global warming.

And the Fukushima event, the worst conceivable for a non-Soviet reactor (with full meltdown of multiple cores) only released ~10% of what Chernobyl did, and most of this reduced amount fell over the ocean. As a result, it's impacts are much smaller than Chernobyl, which in turn is much smaller than fossil fuels' ANNUAL impact. And then there's global warming on top of that.

The choice between nuclear and fossil fuels is a no-brainer. Alas, due to the public sentiment in Japan, this protest being one representative example, Japan is about to make the unconcionable decision of replacing nuclear with fossil fuel generation that is thousands of times worse in terms of public health risk and the environment. In the end, that will be the largest trajedy which occurred as a result of the nuclear accident.

I almost agree with your short sightedness...Fukushima will be worse for us all

The answer then is to build a safer Steve Austin. WE CAN DO IT, WE CAN DO IT, WE CAN DO IT => YES WE CAN.

I would rather use less than die from radiation

A good point. I used a Goldstar CRT monitor for years not realizing I was taking a radiation bath with my face, and me having thyroid disease too. My face actually got a nice tan and I wasn't even going OUTSIDE.

It's been a tough row to hoe. Word is some of these new electronics are spraying users with radiation now also. I would hafta say that's not a great idea for young teenage girls heading into their childbearing times. Which is of course just my un-educated opinion.