Fukushima: The Inevitable Outcome of Nuclear Madness | Mickey Z.

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Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

Oct. 6, 2013

“Nuclear weapons pervade our thinking. Control our behavior. Administer our societies. Inform our dreams. They bury themselves like meat hooks deep in the base of our brains. They are purveyors of madness. They are the ultimate colonizer. Whiter than any white man that ever lived. The very heart of whiteness.”

- Arundhati Roy

As meager news continues to trickle out about the dire situation at the Fukushima 1 Nuclear Power Plant -- bringing us vague headlines like “Fukushima Plant Operator Reports New Leak” and “Japan’s Nuclear Refugees, Still Stuck in Limbo,” perhaps this sobering analysis will help inspire some sense of urgency:

After that, I thought it might be useful to connect this mostly ignored, ecosystem-threatening scenario to the long, sordid, denial-filled history of nuclear weapons/power generation.

The Original Ground Zero
It was in 1942, at the University of Chicago, that physicists working under Arthur Compton, Enrico Fermi, and others produced fission of the uranium isotope U-235. In other words: a nuclear chain reaction. With an ultra-secret $2.2 billion investment (the equivalent of roughly $30 billion today), the Manhattan Project began that same year. Nearly 200,000 workers toiled in 37 installations in 19 states and Canada.

On July 16, 1945, an atomic bomb was successfully detonated at Alamogordo, New Mexico after which Senator Brien McMahon of Connecticut called it "the most important thing in history since the birth of Jesus Christ."

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1. "We're all downwinders." Yes, we are. nt

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2. !

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3. A lot of truth in that article

And we live in a lot of myths as to why we should be using such sources of energy.