Radiation Ga Ga
Disturbing sense of Déjà Vu continues to permeate the information coming in about Japan’s Fukushima plant nuclear disaster. In spite of troubling revelations, we’re being told not to worry. Japan's Energy Secretary Steven Chu made the rounds on American talk shows, stating that people in the U.S. are “ in no danger ” and as far as Japan is concerned, “ we'll see what comes .” Being lulled into a false sense of security usually results in a rude awakening. The truth may not be comforting, but is definitely past due. The design of the reactors at the Fukushima power plant has been criticized for almost 40 years. The cascade of events unfolding there had been foretold 20 years ago, in a report by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. It listed earthquake-induced diesel generator failure and power outage leading to failure of cooling systems as one of the “ most likely causes ” of nuclear accidents. One report said that these reactors had a 90 % probability of bur...