2011-03-14, 06:08 PM
Stereo Wrote:
Second, there's no sign of incompetence or negligence here. They've been extremely proactive in trying every possible measure to keep the reactor safe. One statement about one reactor wont always apply to a different reactor.
I'm not sure what you mean about "too old to be safely operating". Reactor 1 was indeed originally scheduled to be taken offline this month - but an inspection earlier this year ratified that it could operate safely for another decade. Sounds safe to me.
Also, are you prepared to share the blame when your FUD causes more deaths than the radioactivity itself? One old man has already died of fright, which is one death more than has been caused by the accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi.
Does everyone realize that there are 3 plants at risk, all with multiple reactors? All with, now, varying risks and conditions? Everyone is acting like this is only one reactor or one plant.
Second, This is incompetence:
"They had to shut down 17 plants in 2003 because they'd been falsifying the records about what had been happening at them," he said."
How is this not wrong? How is this properly maintaining the plants?
"But they were serious in the sense that lives were threatened, systems broke down, there were failures to report and there were cover-ups. People pretended things hadn't happened."
And this event was of a serious nature.
"Maybe one of the most spectacular was the collapse of the cooling system of Japan's first commercial fast breeder reactor which is on the coast, on the opposite coast to the Pacific coast over on the Japan Sea side.
Yet another disaster in Japan.
"A place called Monju, which in 1995 sprang a leak in its liquid sodium cooling system which made the whole thing absolutely red hot and had to be shut down immediately and stayed shut down until the beginning of last year - 15 years."
How this competent?
"It should have been shut down years ago because it's 40 years old this month."
And once again, this plant is too old.
And just because random inspector number 60 says "its safe" doesnt mean it's safe. For example, the EPA in America claimed the air in NY after 9/11 was safe to breathe. Guess what. They lied, and people are still suffering and dying from the toxic dust today.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/...ion=justin
Once again, all you do is ignore the facts with no less than pathetic excusses.
Also, if you knew anything about nuclear radiation, you'd know that in most cases it takes time for radiation poisoning to kill and it's effects last decades. It will take time for us to start seeing the death toll from radiation.
Regarding the man that died of fright, link?