Fukushima Daiichi: It May Be Too Late Unless the Military Steps In

[caseymoz]

34. That disaster probably took a month off everyone's life.

Mean average. And it wasn't primarily Cesium-137.

These disasters release materials into the biosphere that have had little or no presence in the whole natural history of the earth.

Look, fellow atheist, I have a some expertise here. Like another poster above, I was also in Navy nuclear power.

Did you read the article that the estimated chance of another major earthquake in the Fukishima area is 90 percent in the next three years? Since it's situated on the "ring of fire," that's not an "if" I would bet against. In fact, that's something close to a certainty.

No, I don't propose throwing the army at it. Not the least because buckets of sand aren't going to help here. You definitely can't throw away lives without a plan.

Come on. In all the old science fiction movies, whenever the world faced a problem like this, they got the best minds together in a think tank to come up with a plan.

I haven't heard anything like that has been tried here. Has it? Was science fiction just that far off about human behavior? Are we just incapable of that? I mean, it has been more than a year already, and it seems like everyone is wringing their hands in paralysis. If we act like this as a species, no way should we be fooling with nuclear power.