Comments on: Second explosion at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/ Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:07:59 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: ernie https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500489 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 02:07:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500489 In the mid 1990’s the Japanese govt made a cartoon saying Plutonium was safe!!! Talk about brainwashing propaganda!!
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/japanese-pluto-kun-plutonium-is-safe-anime-propaganda-from-mid-1990s/

]]> By: kolin https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500488 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 06:37:26 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500488 The nuclear reactor situation does not seem to be improving. Hope it will soon. They are now teaching kids in Japan about the situation through this cartoon
http://www.japansugoi.com/wordpress/cartoon-explaining-the-fukushima-nuclear-reactor-problem-to-kids/

]]> By: Stephanie Z https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500487 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 21:03:46 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500487 Enoch, at least one French nuclear official is now talking about Chernobyl: http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/15/japan.nuclear/?hpt=T2#

Be aware that this is a rating of the severity of the failure, not a measure of danger to the population. That’s still unknown.

]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500486 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:43:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500486 Merely pointing to a video showing the explosion is not feeding hysteria. And merely suggesting that the risk analysis of nuclear power is drastically undercautious is not being anti-nuke.

Greg’s mentioned elsewhere that there appears to be a pro-nuke crowd that’s downplaying everything that’s happening, and no matter how accurate or measured anyone’s response is, no matter how technically knowledgeable they happen to be, if they come out against nuclear power, they’re obviously fearmongerers and luddites.

To them I say, get fucked.

]]> By: Enoch https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500485 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:16:12 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500485 I do not understand the objective of warning people to stop talking about Chernobyl when no one has yet done so. This is not a good time to be erecting straw men and sock puppets.

]]> By: daedalus2u https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500484 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:56:32 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500484 Matt’s site #1 is good. It is accurate and it cites other accurate sources.

]]> By: California Lemon Law Attorney https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500483 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 18:06:42 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500483 Please donate if you can to help out families in Japan

]]> By: Shena https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500482 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 07:19:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500482 Nuclear Power plants boon or curse?

]]> By: MattusMaximus https://gregladen.com/blog/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500481 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 02:34:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2011/03/14/second-explosion-at-fukushima/#comment-500481 Greg, I thought you were a more rational blogger than this; you are inadvertently feeding into the hysteria around this situation with the Fukushima nuclear plants by referencing shoddy media reporting. I suggest you and others here take a look at my blog post on the matter:

Know Nukes: The Japanese Earthquake & Anti-Nuclear Hysteria
http://skepticalteacher.wordpress.com/2011/03/13/know-nukes-the-japanese-earthquake-anti-nuclear-hysteria/

Please take some time to read up on information regarding the Fukushima incident from reputable sources that understand the nuclear physics & engineering involved. Otherwise, you are merely feeding the hysteria.

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