Topic: Unfolding Fukushima Nuclear Disaster ‘Worse than Chernobyl’

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Unfolding Fukushima Nuclear Disaster ‘Worse than Chernobyl’ – Meet the Victims

 Kerry-anne  January 12, 2014

Soaring cancer rates in Japan and the US, devastated communities, a poisoned landscape, radioactive plants and animals.  After the 2011 magnitude 8.9 earthquake and resultant tsunami, the stricken Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant in North East Japan has suffered core meltdowns, leaked thousands of tonnes of radioactive water into the ground water of Japan and the Pacific Ocean, and a series of other calamities. The results have been devastating – and are only getting worse.

Cancers Soar Among First Responders and Locals

It was revealed this week that the number of U.S. sailors who say their health was devastated when they were  irradiated while delivering humanitarian help  near the stricken  Fukushima  Daichii nuclear plant is continuing to soar. Seventy one of those serving on the USS Ronald Reagan at the time of the meltdown now have cancer.

As Op Ed news reports:

 Within a day of Fukushima One’s March 11, 2011, melt-down, American “first responders” were drenched in radioactive fallout. In the midst of a driving snow storm, sailors reported a cloud of warm air with a metallic taste that poured over the Reagan.Then Reagan crew members were enveloped in a warm cloud. “Hey,” joked sailor Lindsay Cooper at the time. “It’s radioactive snow.”

Cooper spoke out to the US media ahead of a class action law suit that US first responders are brining against TEPCO, the Japanese energy firm responsible for the nuclear site:

“[But now], my thyroid is so out of whack that I can lose 60 to 70 pounds in one month and then gain it back the next. My menstrual cycle lasts for a six months at a time, and I cannot get pregnant. It’s ruined me.”

There has also been a surge in Thyroid cancers among young people around Fukushima.

An average of 1.7 people per 100,000 in the general population between the ages of 15 and 19 contracted Thyroid cancer in 2007.  This year, 12 per 100,000 people younger than 18 at the time of the disaster in Fukushima were diagnosed with the disease.

http://iacknowledge.net/unfolding-fukushima-nuclear-disaster-worse-than-chernobyl-meet-the-victims/

[Dan]

I don't know if I canconvey just how much I hate nuke power. The risk-reward is just not balanced.

[Libertas]

Nuke power can be safe and effective and produce less hazardous byproducts if the converted to thorium reactors.

Like any new technology we opened Pandora's box a bit too fast due to a) wanting to win/end WWII and b) wanting to win/survive the Cold War/WWIII and now we are suffering from c) squandered funds due to massive government idiocy which can be laid at the feet of progressives and their bloated ever-expanding social welfare bullshyt!

And as for those sailors...jeesh, should have known better than to get that close to a radiated area...Captain would have been better off (especially concious-wise) had he refused Duh Wun's order to deploy to that location.  POSOTUS should have gone there himself!

 

[AlanS]

POSOTUS should have gone there himself!

 

 

[Glock32]

The problem with nuclear power is that the consequences of things going wrong are so extreme. Some of these compounds take thousands of years to decay.

I used to be all in favor of nuclear power, but I've really had to rethink that after Fukushima.  Chernobyl was easy to chalk up to an inferior Soviet design, but Fukushima was a Western design.  How many more Fukushimas are there, potentially?  Is it just going to keep pouring radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean indefinitely?

I'm no longer convinced there is a way to safely use it. Nuclear reactors on ships and submarines are one thing -- they're small and even a totally exposed core that sunk with the ship would only do limited damage.  I'm also worried about the baton being handed to future generations. Will they have anything like the competence to manage things like this? Our society has been deliberately breeding morons, a form of vote farming by the Democrat party. What happens to all the reactors and nuclear waste when we've gone full Idiocracy?

[Libertas]

Fukashima had too many design flaws, not the least of which was common sense - like not building so close to the coast in a nation resting within the Ring of Fire that is prone to tsunami's, earthquakes, volcanoes and such.

And, Thorium would be way better.

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/160131-thorium-nuclear-reactor-trial-begins-could-provide-cleaner-safer-almost-waste-free-energy