04-12-2011, 03:08 PM
What all of the analyses of the Fukushima disaster miss is this: it ain't over. You have a daisy chain of nuclear reactors, most of which are in a slow-motion meltdown, It's a slow-motion meltdown because heroic Japanese are walking into the maw of a radioactive hell on Earth and doing what they can to retard the process. Those workers will die.
The numbers are based on where we are today. Who knows where we will be when this is over, and it does not appear that this will be any time soon. The complex isn't inland. It's right on the ocean and leaking. Seafood is off of my menu forever. Entombing Fukushima will take more concrete than I can comprehend. I am confident of this, however: If you have an accident like this, you want the Japanese to address it. They will do everything humanly possible to mitigate the damage on Japan and on the rest of the world. We won't get off free.
This century will be big: Ever bigger epidemics, big environmental disasters and big events that race across the world at the speed of a 777.
The numbers are based on where we are today. Who knows where we will be when this is over, and it does not appear that this will be any time soon. The complex isn't inland. It's right on the ocean and leaking. Seafood is off of my menu forever. Entombing Fukushima will take more concrete than I can comprehend. I am confident of this, however: If you have an accident like this, you want the Japanese to address it. They will do everything humanly possible to mitigate the damage on Japan and on the rest of the world. We won't get off free.
This century will be big: Ever bigger epidemics, big environmental disasters and big events that race across the world at the speed of a 777.