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Title: Japan Nuclear Disaster: Last Workers Reportedly Evacuated from Plant; White Steam Seen Over Reactor; Situation Upgraded to a 6 on 7-Point Nuclear Event Scale
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alternet.org
URL Source: http://www.alternet.org/world/15025 ... on_7-point_nuclear_event_scale
Published: Mar 14, 2011
Author: AlterNet
Post Date: 2011-03-15 23:34:16 by Godwinson
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Views: 10747
Comments: 10
AlterNet Japan Nuclear Disaster: Last Workers Reportedly Evacuated from Plant; White Steam Seen Over Reactor; Situation Upgraded to a 6 on 7-Point Nuclear Event Scale Japanese officials acknowledged for the first time that radiation released from damaged reactors was sufficient to be "harmful to human health." March 14, 2011 Japan stands poised on the brink of a nuclear catastrophe, even as the death toll from the massive earthquake and tsunami that devastated the island-nation continues to rise. Around 3,000 3,370 are confirmed dead and tens of thousands remain missing.
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#1. To: Godwinson, Mad Dog, Ferret Mike, Hondo68, All (#0)
Those lazy Japs! Maybe since Mad Dog knows so FUCKING much being educated by WikiPaedia (based on his own admission) he can go over there and kick their asses for sitting down on the job and taking a saki break.
The Chernobyl victims keep rolling in as people in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus continue to die in cancer clusters and children are born with profound genetic defects. Chernobyl released 400 times the radioactive fallout of Hiroshima. This is what happens when you have routine human error at a nuclear power plant. (An interesting aside: due to all the hard work of those heroes who cleared the immediate area, the ecosystem around Pripyat and Chernobyl has bounced back remarkably. Wildlife has returned and some villages are even inhabitable. It’s a wonderful case study for people interested in how our ecosystem bounces back from human folly.) In sum: I know you may think nuclear power is comparatively clean and safe, but there is more to it than that. It’s non-renewable, intensely pollutive and very, very dangerous. We must look elsewhere for answers.
Exactly. Lets start by stopping human procreation for a generation. That will cool the need for new energy resources.
#4. To: buckeroo (#3)
Exactly. Lets start by stopping human procreation for a generation. That will cool the need for new energy resources. What percent of the people in this country do you think agree with you? Hopefully a minority.
We certainly need to slow the exploding size of the Earth's human population to a halt, and even use natural mortality to reduce it's size. I fully agree with that. We have too many people on this planet to sustain reasonably. I recently watched "Soylent Green' and the thing I found most troubling was how much closer the world of 2011 is to that fictional horror of a place that seemed too unreal to believe could become reality when I first saw that movie decades ago.
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#2. To: buckeroo (#1)
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Meet twins Vladimir and Michael Iariga. Michael, on the right, is the older twin. Vladimir, on the left, is deaf.
#3. To: Ferret Mike (#2)
We must look elsewhere for answers.
Replies to Comment # 3. We must look elsewhere for answers.
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