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Fukushima: What Happened and What Needs To Be Done

Posted by Soulskill on from the hide-in-our-caves-and-fear-the-mighty-atom dept.

IndigoDarkwolf writes "The sometimes confused media coverage around the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant left me wanting for a good summary. Apparently the BBC felt the same way, and now delivers an overview starting from the earthquake and concluding with the current state of the troubled reactors."

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  1. Persective by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Pity that the nuclear problems seemed to overshadow all the vastly more important and tragic aspects of the quake and tsunami.

    1. Re:Persective by couchslug · · Score: 4, Insightful

      What quake and what tsunami?

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      "This post is an artistic work of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact."
  2. Nice but a little late by EdwinFreed · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It's nice that the Beeb has released this fairly calm and unbiased recap, but less sensationalistic coverage from the start would have been a whole lot nicer.

    I've been watching the coverage of this story on a bunch of different sites for the past few weeks, and this is the best I've found - the MIT nuclear science and engineering site. Well written factual articles about the situation, almost entirely devoid of speculation and fearmongering, along with background articles on stuff like how toxic Plutonium is, how radiation doses are measured, etc.

    Unfortunately Ivo Vegter is entirely correct: Every mainstream journalist out there should hang their heads in shame in regards to how their profession has covered this incident.

  3. We can't handle the technology! by tchdab1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    We need to accept that we are not capable of cutting through the BS and making clear decisions where highly toxic, unstable, and corrosive substances are handled in a complex manner for great profit (hundreds of millions of dollars).
    Put another way, we need trusted technologists to tell us if things are safe or not. Apparently these can be bought when there is lots of money to be made.
    At best, people don't think clearly. At worst, we are being lied to and as a result people die and whole regions are rendered toxic.