Regarding Schneibster and All of His Bullshit Nonsense About Nuclear Energy --

[big sky brad]

He's full of shit.
For your information, he lied about the state of the situation in Japan concerning the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster.
The Japanese PM resigned 2 months ago as a result of his mishandling the situation.
They have redrawn the borders around the plant that are to be immediately evacuated to over 40 kilometers from the plant.
The next time someone tells you that nuclear energy is safe, think again.

So, here's to Schneibster and everything he stood for --

:fist:

[101Scout]

Regarding nuclear energy ..... it's obvious that we've created a killer monster that will keep killing for the rest of time. I know there's much better ways for clean energy etc etc, but nuclear isn't the answer. IMHO

Regarding the 'trit' tripper ...... it was also obvious that it's presence here was to game. Another word for it is troll. It was on a mission. A fucked up situation is what develops when shit baggers in other forums urges a known troll to go head hunting in one particular forum much like what took place here. The outcome was a little delayed but justified.

Treating Fukushima as if it were no big deal was so over the top and crazy. It was like the 'trit' tripper was spitting in the faces of the Japanese ppl who are seriously effected by the ongoing fallout of those cooked nuke plants. This is how ignorance of those like the 'trit' tripper becomes so disgusting in the face of the suffrage that Fukushima brought to it's population and on top of the unreported effects to the rest of the world. I'm a little surprised that you remembered this, BSB. I certainly haven't forgotten it. That just tells us just how far out of bounds the trit'ster was.

[Xena]

In my opinion the Fukushima disaster is the greatest disaster we have experienced to date. Japan, and the world, will be suffering the repercussions of this for generations.

[N.U.]

I put Fukushima second to Chernobyl but really, does it matter? It's like comparing the explosions between a 500 lb and 400 lb bomb. Once it hits the point of lethality, who cares? Lethal is lethal.

[Xena]

It's like comparing the explosions between a 500 lb and 400 lb bomb. Once it hits the point of lethality, who cares? Lethal is lethal.You're right about that.

[101Scout]

This impresses me. Japan's PM gets it. Hell... even Germany gets it. They say no more nuclear crap after what Fukushima proved. Our leadership is too damn stupid to get a clue, while many of our own nuke facilities crumbles and also sit on high risk fault lines.


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PM: Japan 'can exist without nuclear power'
Japanese prime minister vows to move country towards renewable energy after disaster-triggered Fukushima meltdown.
Last Modified: 13 Jul 2011

Japan's prime minister says he wants the country to learn from its ongoing crisis and become less reliant on nuclear energy.

Naoto Kan told a news conference on Wednesday the risk of nuclear energy is too high and he wants to wean the nation off nuclear energy and eventually seek a society that can do without it.

He said Japan should develop renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and biomass. He said another pillar of Japan's energy policy should be conservation.

[big sky brad]

Japan may be facing a disaster of their own making if the water in the nuclear reactors leak into the waters off of the shores of Eastern Japan.
Japan depends on the ocean for much of its food supply, so if the nearby waters are irradiated, Japan could me dealing with mass starvation within the next few years.
I think there is going to have to be a massive food lift to Japan to help stave off the coming food crisis in Japan.
I also think that the tsunami that hit Japan will cause the entire global structure of reliance between countries to become even stronger.
The tsunami was one of the largest natural disasters to hit any country in the last 60 years, and I think that the wasted efforts of fighting neverending wars in the Middle East will come to halt, in order to help save Japan.

It wasn't just the tremendous damage done by the tsunami, but the ensuing nuclear crisis that developed afterwards that will force the end of fighting useless wars.
We must save Japan.
This is the most important thing we have ever faced in our lifetimes, and will be the most important thing we will ever face in our lifetimes.
I think that our Congress has done a woeful job aiding Japan in its recovery efforts.
I also think that President Obama needs to take a bigger leadership role in helping Japan recover from this horrificly bad, historically huge double disaster.
We are constantly reminded of how fragile life is in America what with tornadoes in the Midwest and hurricanes in the Southern and Eastern shoreline states.
Imagine how we, as a country, would be impacted if a humongous terrible nuclear disaster like this happened here in the United States.
I know that our many ally countries would rush to our aid in our time of need. And I think we need to redouble our efforts in Japan.
We need to save Japan.

I was talking to 4 different people on a different forum (DU) who lived in Japan while Schniebster was posting here.
And they told me a completely different story of how bad things really were in Japan after the initial shock of the news of the tsunami wore off.
Not only did Japan ask for, and receive, a complete global news blackout from every major news network in the world, but they even went so far as to arrest people who were using Twitter who were trying to get the news out about the enormous impact of the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima.
But, let every country has learned the hard way over the last 2 years, you can't keep news of this magnitude from finding its way on to the internet.
It will be there, somewhere.
We need to save ourselves from ourselves . . and stop the proliferation of nuclear power plants because they are not safe.
Just one earthquake, or another tsunami, or one huge hurricane, or one Mississippi flood can damage a nuclear power facility and cause irreparable harm that will last for well over 1000 years.
We must save Japan.

[101Scout]

I was talking to 4 different people on a different forum (DU) who lived in Japan while Schniebster was posting here.
And they told me a completely different story of how bad things really were in Japan after the initial shock of the news of the tsunami wore off.
Not only did Japan ask for, and receive, a complete global news blackout from every major news network in the world, but they even went so far as to arrest people who were using Twitter who were trying to get the news out about the enormous impact of the nuclear meltdown at Fukushima.
But, let every country has learned the hard way over the last 2 years, you can't keep news of this magnitude from finding its way on to the internet.
It will be there, somewhere.
We need to save ourselves from ourselves . . and stop the proliferation of nuclear power plants because they are not safe.
Just one earthquake, or another tsunami, or one huge hurricane, or one Mississippi flood can damage a nuclear power facility and cause irreparable harm that will last for well over 1000 years.
We must save Japan.


Apparently, we may need to also save the US too.


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Dec. 19, 2011, 11:00 a.m. EST
Medical Journal Article: 14,000 U.S. Deaths Tied to Fukushima Reactor Disaster Fallout

WASHINGTON, Dec. 19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Impact Seen As Roughly Comparable to Radiation-Related Deaths After Chernobyl; Infants Are Hardest Hit, With Continuing Research Showing Even Higher Possible Death Count.

An estimated 14,000 excess deaths in the United States are linked to the radioactive fallout from the disaster at the Fukushima nuclear reactors in Japan, according to a major new article in the December 2011 edition of the International Journal of Health Services.

[N.U.]

I really hate articles like this. The evidence presented in this article, at first glance, looks cut and dry, but what is reported in this article seems to be missing key facts, like the ailments that killed these children. I'm not doubting their findings, but the reporting here is shoddy.

[101Scout]

It's not a completed study since more time is needed to run more facts out onto the table, but it's not all that shoddy either. IMHO There's enough there in the report to give it some serious attention down the road.

My computer is unable to download these links that's made available from the radiation.org site. Maybe somebody here can probe further into this study by checking into those links.



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RPHP releases new journal article on U.S. mortality after the Fukushima meltdowns

After 4 p.m. EST, click here to listen to December 19, 2011 news event via streaming audio

Click here to read the December 19, 2011 press release

Click here to read the article in the December 2011 International Journal of Health Services by Joseph Mangano and Janette Sherman (the 28th published by RPHP), on the increase in reported U.S. deaths after arrival of fallout from the nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima, Japan