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3 Years Later: A Fukushima Worker's Eyewitness Story

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-that-just-the-regular-ominious-music? dept.

Lasrick writes "Tuesday, March 11 is the 3rd anniversary of the Fukushima disaster. In this article, a worker at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station gives his eyewitness account of what happened there in the immediate wake of a massive earthquake and tsunami that caused three of the station's reactor cores to melt." The witness, says the story, "was promised anonymity as a condition of providing his account."

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  1. Effects of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan by Will_Malverson · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Almost 20,000 people died because they lived close to the ocean.

    A few dozen people might wind up with cancer someday because Japan uses nuclear power.

    The obvious conclusion? Nuclear power is bad and should be eliminated immediately.

    1. Re:Effects of the earthquake and tsunami in Japan by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I think you missed the point big time there. The potential death toll from the most severe nuclear incident in recent memory is fewer than the number of people who die by slipping in a bathtub each day, and absolutely dwarfed by all the things that actually kill people like smoking and car accidents. This makes nuclear energy a remarkably safe thing, which is in stark contrast to how it is portrayed by alarmist facebook posts.

  2. Re:"Independent Investigation"? by rmdingler · · Score: 4, Insightful
    And you shall have it.

    Apparently, all the familiar sorts of electrical generation and fueling compounds come with an environmental cost.

    Pick your poison: mine coal, crude oil and gas, harness the splitting of the atom, invest in wind and solar collection, damn mighty rivers... there is a documented downside to every way we generate power.

    The dottie armchair nuclear scientist in me would argue new nuclear technologies are being kept on the shelf using FUD-like tactics while several of the finite energy options are being used up. This is happening despite the fact that the renewables aren't ready yet to sustain a reliable grid.

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    Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

    Ernest Hemingway

  3. Re:Jeez has it been 3 years by terjeber · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Nuclear power, the safest, cleanest efficient way to produce energy known to man.