NHK: Thyroid cancer found in 18 Fukushima children

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56. The risk exists only because we're short on money and short on time.

Increases in global energy use are outpacing renewable development many times over, and we can't squeeze blood from a rock - there is a limited amount of energy that's available to a solar panel, and even if we could retrieve all of it it wouldn't be enough.

The result is we're going backwards.

By the way I was an early believer in electric cars and now own two, so I know all about the story of the EV1 and the dirty tricks that went down. There are a lot of reasons why safe nuclear is a victim of the same phenomenon, but that's another story.