Pssssst the level of radiation at Fukushima is now 18 times higher

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3. How irresponsible is it for them to say the reading has been

100 millisieverts when the meter was pegged? The nuclear power industry has a long history of lying to us to the point that we should not take anything they say about the safety of their industry at face value.
If nuclear energy was honest about the dangers there would be no nuclear power plants anywhere in the world. We also would be well on our way to a hell of a lot more benign ways of producing our electricity. If not for the lie that nuclear is safe, sane and cheap with todays technology we would not be relying mostly on fossil fuels either.
It pisses me off to no end that we've been lied too as we have, been sold a pig in a poke if you will.
We still have people extolling the benefits of nuclear energy in the face of all this, even here on this board. Almost to the point where it is difficult to even discuss alternate ways of producing our electricity.