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In reply to the discussion: Records shattered’ at Fukushima — Radiation levels surge after typhoon — Tepco “doesn’t know why” th [View all]bananas
(27,509 posts)11. An example is Barry Brook, who is "happy to be quoted forever"
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One year on, Fukushima is still spinning
Jim Green
The first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster is fast approaching and it promises to be another silly-season for Australia's pro-nuclear zealots.
They have form. While the crisis was unfolding in March last year, Ziggy Switkowski advised that "the best place to be whenever there's an earthquake is at the perimeter of a nuclear plant because they are designed so well."
Switkowski wants dozens of nuclear power plants built in Australia - dozens of places to shelter from earthquakes.
Even as nuclear fuel meltdown was in full swing at Fukushima, Adelaide University's Professor Barry Brook reassured us that:
"There is no credible risk of a serious accident... Those spreading FUD at the moment will be the ones left with egg on their faces. I am happy to be quoted forever after on the above if I am wrong ... but I won't be."
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One year on, Fukushima is still spinning
Jim Green
The first anniversary of the Fukushima disaster is fast approaching and it promises to be another silly-season for Australia's pro-nuclear zealots.
They have form. While the crisis was unfolding in March last year, Ziggy Switkowski advised that "the best place to be whenever there's an earthquake is at the perimeter of a nuclear plant because they are designed so well."
Switkowski wants dozens of nuclear power plants built in Australia - dozens of places to shelter from earthquakes.
Even as nuclear fuel meltdown was in full swing at Fukushima, Adelaide University's Professor Barry Brook reassured us that:
"There is no credible risk of a serious accident... Those spreading FUD at the moment will be the ones left with egg on their faces. I am happy to be quoted forever after on the above if I am wrong ... but I won't be."
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Records shattered’ at Fukushima — Radiation levels surge after typhoon — Tepco “doesn’t know why” th [View all]
spike91nz
Oct 2014
OP
Because we all know you are the expert on all things we should not worry about
Generic Other
Oct 2014
#31
It's a purely DU euphemism for any entity competing with established parties.
closeupready
Oct 2014
#14
Ironically, it's now used by crackpots and true believers to attack anyone with common sense. nt
bananas
Oct 2014
#26
it's the sound technocracy makes when it looks in the mirror and realizes it'd been dead all along
MisterP
Oct 2014
#41
The Japan Times: Tritium up tenfold in Fukushima groundwater after Typhoon Phanfone
OKIsItJustMe
Oct 2014
#37