Japan nuclear policy questioned - Critics say disaster plans failing to account for quakes

[1776Forever]

Sunday, March 13, 2011
Basic nuclear policy questioned
Critics say disaster plans fail to account for simultaneous quake, reactor emergencies

By ERIC JOHNSTON
Staff writer

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110313a7.html

OSAKA — Severe damage to the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant had the central government and local authorities in neighboring towns racing Saturday to evacuate residents and implement previously agreed upon emergency response measures.

But the unprecedented scale of Friday's earthquake and tsunami left questions about not only the adequacy of the measures but the basic policy of pursuing nuclear power in a country as earthquake-prone as Japan.

The Japan Nuclear Safety Organization notes that following the September 1999 accident at a uranium processing facility in Tokai, Ibaraki Prefecture, in which two workers died after mishandling uranium fuel that went critical, the government established a new law for responding to nuclear disasters

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California are you listening?

[Demeter]

1. Surely, You Jest!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-S90Uch2as

[abqmufc]

2. No shock,

Yucca didn't have to address the fact it was a DORMANT volcano which would have radioactive materials stuffed up inside it - some materials having a half life over 100,000 years. Nor did Impact Studies need to address Tribal concerns (like it being a sacred mountain), a direct violation of federal Indian law.

EIS' rarely address the real issues as it would slow down progress. Since 1980 all public policy requires a cost-benefit analysis. CBA's normally don't put a value on such things as "acts of God" and thus such concerns are non-issues in the decision making process.

[1776Forever]

3. All true and I know I am being naive. I am an optimist but no one knows how much time CA has. n/t

[abqmufc]

4. I felt that way after being in LA over holidays..

all that rain was insane and it made me realize CA won't break off, it will slide away under a 20 day rainstorm. B.c of what the nuclear era has done to the land from the Mojave to Albuquerque I can support this technology.

I was taught a long time ago, that when Creator came to first man and woman after emerging, he held out his two hands and said pick. Both hands had a yellow powder. Man and woman chose and picked corn. Creator said this will keep you alive, it is scared and it will grow with the sun and water. Creator then said the other yellow powder must never see the light of day or man (Navajo) would be live a life of misery. That powder was uranium.

It is a traditional story of the Dineh (Navajo) which is again being told.

[kenny blankenship]

5. Really? They place an atomic power complex on the coast of a country famous for quakes & tidal waves

the same country that has given the world the term "tsunami", and you think maybe they overlooked a few things?