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(27,509 posts) Wed Nov 20, 2013, 08:05 AM Nov 2013

Laura Flanders Show: Harvey Wasserman: Risky Operation at Fukushima Demands World Action

Published on Nov 19, 2013

Laura Flanders' show streams at GRITtv.org This week, the operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear plant began the process to remove 400 tons of highly irradiated spent fuel, Nuclear researcher Harvey Wasserman talks about the risks involved and need for world intervention.

Transcript at http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20116-chernobyl-was-transparent-compared-to-fukushima-harvey-wasserman-on-the-ongoing-crisis

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Laura Flanders Show: Harvey Wasserman: Risky Operation at Fukushima Demands World Action (Original Post) bananas Nov 2013 OP

Haven't you been reading what a few of our posters here are telling us madokie Nov 2013 #1

It can't be said too often - A nuclear plant BOILS WATER. Looked at from that perspective truth2power Nov 2013 #2

There's MONEY in one hand Plucketeer Nov 2013 #3

madokie

(51,076 posts)

1. Haven't you been reading what a few of our posters here are telling us

Reply to bananas (Original post)

Wed Nov 20, 2013, 08:42 AM

Nov 2013

that this is nothing to worry about. That the ocean is so vast as to make all this mute. Hell Denver is more radiated or that banana's are the equivalent or even worse.
Course I don't buy any of that bullshit.
I've been concerned about nuclear energy ever since the Russians brought nuclear bombs to Cuba all those years ago. Really got my attention a few years later when PSO told us they were building a nuclear power plant a mere 21 miles from where I'm setting right now. Needless to say the people here weren't having any of that and put a stop to them and their grand scheme of things.
One of our family friends worked on the Manhattan project and he was scared to death of them trying to harness the powers of splitting atoms to boil water to make steam to drive turbines to make electricity. I remember listening to him and my dad talking about this all those years ago like it was yesterday.

On paper nuclear energy is the cats meow but in reality its a long ways from that in the dangers from using it. If the nuclear power industry were made of think this whole ball of wax through before they were allowed to build the first one things might be different today. Since they weren't its like they hung up their thinking caps and have relied on lies and bullshit to get them through the day up to now.

We've lost 60 plus years of research and development of alternate ways of providing our electricity due to the promise of what turned out to be a pig in a poke. Now we're in a bind and have a lot of catching up to do. I say we should start a Manhattan style project to research and develop alternates to the way we're doing it today. Fossil fuels and nuclear are killing our planet as sure as the sun shines to us daily.

truth2power

(8,219 posts)

2. It can't be said too often - A nuclear plant BOILS WATER. Looked at from that perspective

Reply to madokie (Reply #1)

Wed Nov 20, 2013, 10:26 AM

Nov 2013

the absurdity of it all is astounding.

Plucketeer

(12,882 posts)

3. There's MONEY in one hand

Reply to truth2power (Reply #2)

Wed Nov 20, 2013, 01:24 PM

Nov 2013

and valid, viable promises in the other. Which would our monied masters fixate on? THAT is the root of this problem. So when we ALL die - they'll die with more money in their name than the rest of us will - and that's what matters. It's a cryin' shame that the essential elements of the atmosphere can't be bought and sold.

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