Building 3 'Smoke' Causes Evacuation
Are we all on bad news overload yet? We are bad news saturated and its hard to keep it all straight - the recession, Libya, Yemen, Bahrain, Japan, Wisconsin. Its all prominent news and its all happening at once.
I hate to say it but when crises occur simultaneously, another is usually lurking.
The news coming out of Fukushima is confusing as hell. Now we are reading that there is a seventh pool with spent fuel rods in the compound, and we thought six was it. How do the workers there keep it all straight. They are running from the edge of a disaster to the edge of a disaster times 7. And now they have evacuated the sight ostensibly because of a radioactive cloud out of reactor three.
When all is said and done, this thing is going to be right up there as one of the worst nuclear disasters yet. We say yet because we are not naive enough to think that Fukushima is the last nuclear disaster.
Will wiser, cooler, and calmer heads prevail and start dismantling nukes. Not in our lifetime and I think the reason is that Fukushima is just not that important from an economic point of view - this is not my opinion, it is world economic managers' opinion. Fukushima is situated in a poorer section of Japan, like Chernobyl in the USSR, like Michigan in the USA.
Maybe I am too cynical here, but opinion and policy is not shaped by deaths in the thousands. The number is not high enough.
CS Monitor: Workers evacuated from Japan nuclear plant, again
I hate to say it but when crises occur simultaneously, another is usually lurking.
The news coming out of Fukushima is confusing as hell. Now we are reading that there is a seventh pool with spent fuel rods in the compound, and we thought six was it. How do the workers there keep it all straight. They are running from the edge of a disaster to the edge of a disaster times 7. And now they have evacuated the sight ostensibly because of a radioactive cloud out of reactor three.
When all is said and done, this thing is going to be right up there as one of the worst nuclear disasters yet. We say yet because we are not naive enough to think that Fukushima is the last nuclear disaster.
Will wiser, cooler, and calmer heads prevail and start dismantling nukes. Not in our lifetime and I think the reason is that Fukushima is just not that important from an economic point of view - this is not my opinion, it is world economic managers' opinion. Fukushima is situated in a poorer section of Japan, like Chernobyl in the USSR, like Michigan in the USA.
Maybe I am too cynical here, but opinion and policy is not shaped by deaths in the thousands. The number is not high enough.
CS Monitor: Workers evacuated from Japan nuclear plant, again
Before the evacuation this evening, workers had made progress to stabilize the overheated reactors and fuel storage pools at the plant over the weekend.
...the power company told the Monitor that cables have only been connected only to the reactors in buildings No. 1 and No. 2, though they said they were expected to reach units No. 3 and No. 4 soon.
Sixty percent of the used fuel at the Fukushima plant is stored in a seventh shared storage pool located in a separate building, according to the Nuclear Energy Institute, a Washington-based policy organization for the nuclear industry.
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