Report Condemns Japan's Response To Nuclear Accident

mdsolar sends this quote from an article at the NY Times: "From inspectors who abandoned the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as it succumbed to disaster to a delay in disclosing radiation leaks, Japan's response to the nuclear accident caused by the March tsunami fell tragically short, a government-appointed investigative panel said on Monday. ... In particular, an erroneous assumption that an emergency cooling system was working led to an hours-long delay in finding alternative ways to draw cooling water to the plant, the report said. All the while, the system was not working, and the uranium fuel rods at the cores were starting to melt."

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Re:1% of all nuke plants have melted down now.

[ustolemyname]

How many cars have you driven 24/6 for 60 years? Hell, few airplanes are in the air after 30 years.

On top of that, 0.4% of all cars get in accidents every year. Every year more people die in the US from traffic accidents then in every nuclear power incident ever.

Sources:
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/2012/tables/12s1103.pdf
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_United_States#Total_number_of_vehicles

Re:Pro-mistakes advocates.

[ustolemyname]

Foresight. Article from 2004: http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/fl20040523x2.html

It's not as if this particular reactor was on anybody's list of "this is safe."