Good News From Fukushima

[RobertEarl]

First is that it hasn't blown up again and killed everything on the planet!

Second, the Japanese government has finally come out of the closet and is declaring that the private company who holds the world by the balls is not competent to fix the problem. Truth!! There is yet some hope!

The bad news is that Fukushima still could spill it's guts in one fell swoop. As it is, it is a bad case of incontinence; spilling uncontrolled a little at a time.

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

1. I do NOT understand why this is not a GLOBAL endevor

cept no one want to accept ANY responsibility, I can just hear the lawyers jabbering.

[delrem]

2. +1. It's a global threat.

But hmm, the ticking bomb in my neighbor's house, that'll surely blow the whole city sky high, is my neighbor's problem to deal with - not mine - so I won't worry my pointy little head about it!

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

7. It must be some new kinda law that says private companies get 3 years to fix it first

reminds me of the gulf crises in that regard.

:shakes-head:

[delrem]

9. Corporatist gov't with no constraints is what it is.

Energy, water, aquifers, natural resources, ought to be socialized - not privatized. Privatization feeds into a culture of me-first greed and irresponsibility. Rights to develop these should be highly regulated with not just immediate profit but also future needs being factors.

Our economies are built on ideas that never did do the general community/commonwealth justice.

[cantbeserious]

3. Can't Disrupt Global Commerce Over Some Pesky Radiation

eom

[PoliticAverse]

4. The Japanese government excels at denial. n/t

[bunnies]

5. Yep.

Now we'll know even less about whats going on.

[usGovOwesUs3Trillion]

6. Don't they all

[Lasher]

8. Hell, it took over 2 years for it to become just a Japanese national effort.

Japanese government saying it didn't know radioactive shit had been leaking into the ocean for all that time. WTF, have they been living in caves? This looks familiar: Private sector makes profits but the government is left holding the bag.

[RobertEarl]

11. Worst case? Who knows?

This event is a first time ever event. We really don't know what will happen, one, two years from now. But worst case is that the radioactive material cause massive mutagenic deformations of the sea life in the Pacific.

Could be that rain which rises from the Pacific carries radioactive particulates over land.

And that is just with current releases, not counting if the buildings collapse from an earthquake spilling tons more core material into the ocean. Right now there are three spent fuel pools just sitting there high above ground in the collapsing buildings.

China syndrome refers to the cores burning into the earth. They may have done so already and that is why levels of radioactive materials in the ground water have risen rapidly this last week.

[RobertEarl]

12. Too

If the buildings collapse the burning exposed fuel rods will reintroduce even more radioactive smoke. Even more than what we saw at the first explosions 30 months ago. From that the world got more than one dusting.

The authorities have told us there is "no immediate danger" at the levels we have so far been exposed too. Note they did not say there was "no danger". The stuff accumulates and some of it remains radioactive for hundreds of years.