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Organized Crime Cleaning Up With Nuclear Waste

Posted by samzenpus on from the sleep-with-the-three-eyed-fishes dept.

mdsolar writes "The Mafia has been involved with waste disposal for forever but they seem to be getting very interested in nuclear waste disposal these days. In Europe they scuttle ships containing nuclear waste in the sea. Now in Japan, their Asian counterparts are angling for disposal contracts resulting from the Fukushima nuclear disaster."

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  1. Re:model of management and commitment by Elros · · Score: 4, Informative

    Never mind the fact that the 10000 dead was the earthquake, not the reactor. Sensationalist media is the biggest contributor to stupidity in this world.

  2. This in africa by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    This is one region Somali pirates were helping with. By scaring ships out of their coast, where a ton of the waste was being dumped, local fisheries had better catches and better business.

  3. Re:model of management and commitment by Vaphell · · Score: 5, Informative

    I've seen such sensationalist headlines with my own eyes

    this is a slashdot comment about CNN headline from one of the earliest entries about fukushima
    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=2036214&cid=35478190

    It's disgusting; CNN.com's current main page headline is "Japan's reactor problems mount; death toll rises."
    WTF?

    which was a reply to another post saying that summary makes it look like the deaths are the direct result of fukushima (which it did).

    iamrmani was one of several people reporting updates on the Fukushima Nuclear plant that has been struggling following last Friday's disaster. A third explosion (Japanese) has been reported, along with other earlier information. MSNBC has a story about similiar reactors in the US. We also ran into a story which predicts that there won't be significant radiation. But already Japan is facing rolling blackouts, electricity rationing, evacuating the area around the plant, and thousands dead already.

    example of article
    http://ibnlive.in.com/news/blast-at-japan-nuclear-plant-death-toll-rises/145722-2.html