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TOKYO–As Japan’s government prepares regulations to punish those who violate the 20km (12.4 mile) exclusion zone around the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, a Japanese journalist drove into the area and recorded scenes of desolation.
Armed with only filtration masks, a Geiger counter, and dosimeter, Tetsuo Jimbo of the Web site Videonews and a colleague drove into the voluntary evacuation zone at 30 km (18.6 miles) from the plant and began recording.
Punishing the little people (common citizens) who don’t understand why they have to give up their homes and land. Meanwhile the jerk who owns the power plant was finally heard from. And he deeply apologizes. THAT’S IT?! Is that all that’s going to happen to him. He had to bow down and pretend to give a sh*t, for a few moments. Wow! Now he can go back to his safe mansion, wherever the heck it is.
As I was telling my elderly mother. They picked the least expensive piece of real estate in Japan, to build this monster power plant. Right on the eastern shore of Japan. Only several miles away from a fault zone. Because anywhere else, would have endangered people and property that COUNT! But these farmers and fishing villagers don’t count. So they got six nuclear reactors, very close by.
The news makes a big deal about the radiation contaminating the sea water. And I agree, it should be of concern. But I has to be a drop in the bucket, compared to what the US Navy did back in the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. 235 tests in all, in both Nevada and the Pacific. The most infamous being the Bikini Atoll tests. Which have left the area unlivable. And yet they’re only grossing about what’s happening in Japan, and what happened in Russia. Very, very rarely, about what almost happened at Three Mile Island, PA. And the gov. may not have told us everything about that.
Why did they build above ground?
If I was their insurance company I would have insisted that the power station be built underground, below any possible earthquake and tsunami damage.
We know how to dig, plenty of engineering marvels underground, and we know how to build, plenty of earthquake-proof structure around.
That would have disposed of the nuclear waste problem too. Never bring it to the surface.
Ass-hats…
PeePod===$.
There are water tables underground, silly. contaminate that, and the entire country of japan could be irradiated from the water supply.
The only reason you would ever build a nuclear power plant underground is you are making nuclear bombs and want a facility that can stand being attacked.
Bobbo you are a fucking idiot, please kill yourself