Wednesday, August 3rd, 2011
Stephan: Most the media have moved on, but radiation has nothing to do with news cycles. Japan has a multi-thousand year cancer eating away at its vitals. This is why nuclear power should be abandoned. Even that is going to require hundreds of years of costs to deal with and store the millions of gallons of waste the industry has already produced. It will go on until someone figures out how to deal with the waste.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. reported its second deadly radiation reading in as many days at its wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant north of Tokyo.
The utility known as Tepco said yesterday it detected 5 sieverts of radiation per hour in the No. 1 reactor building. On Aug. 1 in another area it recorded radiation of 10 sieverts per hour, enough to kill a person ‘within a few weeks
