While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen took soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens. All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the US. This level of contamination is currently being discovered throughout Japan. At the US NRC Regulatory Information Conference in Washington, DC March 13 to March 15, the NRC’s Chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko emphasized his concern that the NRC and the nuclear industry presently do not consider the costs of mass evacuations and radioactive contamination in their cost benefit analysis used to license nuclear power plants. Furthermore, Fairewinds believes that evacuation costs near a US nuclear plant could easily exceed one trillion dollars and contaminated land would be uninhabitable for generations.
Monday, March 26th, 2012
Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US
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Source: Fairewinds Associates
Publication Date: 26 March 2012 (used)
Link: Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US
Source: Fairewinds Associates
Publication Date: 26 March 2012 (used)
Link: Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US
Stephan: Fairewinds Associates, and Arnie Gundersen personally, have proven to be the most reliable source of information concerning the Fukushima nuclear event. Click through to see what the nuclear community is saying to itself; it will astonish you, and leave you with no doubt that ending nuclear power should be a priority. When it goes bad, it goes bad in a completely different way than even the most massive tornado, for instance because, as Gundersen points out, it can last for decades, even generations. I urge you to watch this video.
