Greenpeace: Japanese Government Lying About Fukushima, Exposing Citizens to Deadly Radiation -AlterNet, July 4
-According to a Greenpeace activist who's been to Fukushima and seen both the way its citizens are returning to normal life and the high levels of radiation still emitting from the devastated plant: the Japanese government is endangering lives. The Fukushima disaster is said to be on the same level as Chernobyl... and we all know about the aftermath. So why is Japan sending its citizens back to their deaths? Watch the interview, via Mark Crispin Miller, below:
http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/629323/greenpeace%3A_japanese_government_lying_about_fukushima,_exposing_citizens_to_deadly_radiation/
A Safer Nuclear Crypt -NYT, July 5
-The nuclear calamity at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi plant has refocused attention on the vulnerability of spent fuel pools at the 104 operating American nuclear plants.
-The pools are generally far more packed than the damaged ones at Fukushima. Some scientists argue that the crowding raises the risk of a fire and makes the pools a tempting target for terrorists.
-Several members of Congress are calling for the fuel to be moved from the pools into dry casks at a faster clip, noting that the casks are thought to be capable of withstanding an earthquake or a plane crash, they have no moving parts and they require no electricity.
-"We should not wait for an American meltdown to beef up American nuclear safety measures," Representative Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, who advocates greater reliance on casks, said after the accident in March in Japan. "We must heed the lessons to be learned from the nuclear meltdown in Japan and ensure nuclear safety here."
-But transferring the fuel to dry casks involves risks of its own, some industry experts say. "It's a very complex discussion," said Neil Wilmshurst, a nuclear power expert and a vice president of the Electric Power Research Institute, a nonprofit utility consortium. "Every time you move spent fuel, there's always a risk of human error. How much of this do you want to do if you don't need to do it?"
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/business/energy-environment/06cask.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=fukushima&st=cse
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