"The fear of nuclear energy is more harmful than nuclear energy itself. "
This has always been true. In 1979, the accident at Three Mile Island killed or injured no one from radiation exposure. However. there was a voluntary evacuation (read 'panicked flight') from the area within 5 miles of the site because of an erroneous public warning by Pennsylvania State Governor Richard Thornburgh. In total, 140,000 people fled the area. This would have caused injuries or fatalities from traffic accidents.
But the long term consquences were much more severe. At that time over 200 additional power reactors had been planned for the United States in various locations. As a result of TMI, all of them were terminated. Nearly all of those under construction at the time were also terminated. Instead, coal-fired plants were retained in operation. This will have produced injuries and loss of life expectancy because of the retained coal-fired capacity. This would have come primarily from toxic heavy metal emissions from burning coal.
great point about the need for energy and fission to power the software/system needs of aging population! the politicized attribute of 'fukushima!' is indicated by the fact that public opinion and government investment policy in the 3 countries dusted by the Chery radioactive cloud favor increasing nuclear fission capacity - Ukraine, Russia, and Poland. political trends that empathize with declared suffering of others are the strident anti energy voices and architects of energiewende. the pattern of adopted empathy and virture is a broader political problem in the West affecting more policies besides energy capacity. the wandering empathic intellectuals need real work and challenge to prevent their idle brains from running countries into the ground. in fact there is a mountain of intellectual effort needed in many domains to plan, build, and manage the new commercial environment, the diffusion and adoption of high productivity information /software based economy and its component finance and production domain markets.
Fukushima triple whammy of much costlier LNG, direct negative effect on manufacturing and defaming nuclear energy could have been avoided if pre-known mitigating actions were done
Author wrote: "Unlike the backlash that much of the Western world has been experiencing over immigration, most Japanese people appear to support it."
The issue is UNCONTROLLED illegal immigration - at least in the USA - the overwhelming majority of people liberal and conservative are not anti-immigration!
Excellent post as always. I thought you could have said more about the complete reversal of direction and policy in Japan regarding nuclear power. “If the place that originated your one word condemnation of nuclear power has re-embraced it how is this an argument against; it is an argument in support of nuclear”
"The fear of nuclear energy is more harmful than nuclear energy itself. "
This has always been true. In 1979, the accident at Three Mile Island killed or injured no one from radiation exposure. However. there was a voluntary evacuation (read 'panicked flight') from the area within 5 miles of the site because of an erroneous public warning by Pennsylvania State Governor Richard Thornburgh. In total, 140,000 people fled the area. This would have caused injuries or fatalities from traffic accidents.
But the long term consquences were much more severe. At that time over 200 additional power reactors had been planned for the United States in various locations. As a result of TMI, all of them were terminated. Nearly all of those under construction at the time were also terminated. Instead, coal-fired plants were retained in operation. This will have produced injuries and loss of life expectancy because of the retained coal-fired capacity. This would have come primarily from toxic heavy metal emissions from burning coal.
great point about the need for energy and fission to power the software/system needs of aging population! the politicized attribute of 'fukushima!' is indicated by the fact that public opinion and government investment policy in the 3 countries dusted by the Chery radioactive cloud favor increasing nuclear fission capacity - Ukraine, Russia, and Poland. political trends that empathize with declared suffering of others are the strident anti energy voices and architects of energiewende. the pattern of adopted empathy and virture is a broader political problem in the West affecting more policies besides energy capacity. the wandering empathic intellectuals need real work and challenge to prevent their idle brains from running countries into the ground. in fact there is a mountain of intellectual effort needed in many domains to plan, build, and manage the new commercial environment, the diffusion and adoption of high productivity information /software based economy and its component finance and production domain markets.
Fukushima triple whammy of much costlier LNG, direct negative effect on manufacturing and defaming nuclear energy could have been avoided if pre-known mitigating actions were done
Author wrote: "Unlike the backlash that much of the Western world has been experiencing over immigration, most Japanese people appear to support it."
The issue is UNCONTROLLED illegal immigration - at least in the USA - the overwhelming majority of people liberal and conservative are not anti-immigration!
Excellent post as always. I thought you could have said more about the complete reversal of direction and policy in Japan regarding nuclear power. “If the place that originated your one word condemnation of nuclear power has re-embraced it how is this an argument against; it is an argument in support of nuclear”