If you read the Wall Street Journal, then you
get the impression the situation is not that bad
at all, it is only unconfortable for Tepco (Tokyo
Electric Power Company). If you follow the media
and read the newspapers here in Germany, you get
a completely different opinion. You get the
impression that this is the worst atomic crisis
since Chernobyl. This is what the people wanted to
hear, because the majority of people in Germany is
against power from nuclear power plants. I guess
it started with the Chernobyl disaster, which affected
Western Europe much more than the USA. Maybe the
media in the US focuses on different things, because the
people want to hear something else? Or is the US
nuclear industry so strong that it can influence the
public opinion?
I think the worries are justified, it is indeed the
worst atomic crisis since Chernobyl. We have seen
now for the first time what happens if an earthquake
or a tsunami hits a nuclear power plant directly:
from a nuclear catastrophe to a nuclear meltdown,
everything is possible. We have seen in Japan how
dangerous nuclear waste is (a fire broke out in the
reactor's fuel storage pond - an area where *used*
nuclear fuel is kept cool). I think this sheds new
light on unsolved problems, since the nuclear waste
problem as a whole is completely unsolved, isn't it?
If it is so safe to store it, then the US could store
it for others. Maybe that is the solution for the
economic crisis, the U.S. becomes the world's
largest nuclear-waste dump. We will take your
waste if you pay for it..
-J.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Gillian Densmore" <gil.densm...@gmail.com>
To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" <friam@redfish.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2011 4:29 AM
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Apocalypse in Japan
with all due respect I think it wasn't needed to troll about nuclear
power. It's not perfect. Japan isn't perfect. It's a time to pool
together international relief. What if a freek huricane or tornado hit
new mexico? I'd hope that we'd be seeking aid reguardless of personal
politics.
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