Records shattered’ at Fukushima — Radiation levels surge after typhoon — Tepco “doesn’t know why” th

[jeff47]

36. The common sense factor is already there. Where it's missing

is in the article in the OP.

Record levels of radiation next to ocean water? How bout these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Castle
Operation Castle is when we set off multiple fusion nuclear weapons in the Pacific. That was a metric fuckton more radiation. Next to ocean water.

Including the very exciting Castle Bravo test where we discovered Li-7 will fuse just as well as Li-6. So we set off a bomb we expected to be 6 megatons, and got 15 megatons. Oops.

How bout these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underwater_explosion#List_of_underwater_nuclear_tests
Those are 5 nuclear explosions we set off IN the Pacific ocean, along with a few the USSR set off. In the ocean is pretty close to in the ocean.

To call these "record levels" is fearmongering.

When are we going to learn to stop building nuclear reactors and destroying our planet and humankind?

Well, if we hadn't been fearmongering about nuclear plants for the last 40 years, we would have burned a lot less coal. Resulting in a lot less CO2. And a much smaller climate change problem.

Common sense is to consider the potential danger of the activities you are choosing between. Back in the 60s and 70s we had two choices for energy: fossil fuels or nuclear power. Renewables are an option now, but that required decades of R&D.

So which should we have chosen?
1) Nuclear power meant a very small chance of a very bad problem in a relatively small part of the planet.
2) Fossil fuels were guaranteed to cause a very bad problem over the ENTIRE planet.

Instead of using common sense, we latched on to the spectacular. China syndrome instead of climate change.