I REALLY want a full meltdown and containment breech at the Fukushima Reactor.

[denem]

I want to hear about a charged cloud of super-radiated material rising thousands of feet high, slipping into the trade winds, feeding a West Coast storm, heading down south and back up for an East Coast home run.

I get so excited about doom and gloom! The Thrill, The Thrill!

NOT! GOVERNMENT-INDUSTRY EXPERTS LIE (Doh!)

I was in England when Chernobyl blew. At every stage the 'Experts' told us there was little danger, at least to Britain. First the cloud went up north to Finland, then down south for a European tour. Well, .I went out for a grocery store run stocking up on water, UHT milk, iodine tablets and some food. Everyone told me I was crazy. (Well that got that part right).

Then 'against all predictions' the cloud DID pass over Britain, but pretty 'briskly' There had been little contamination - Safe! We were truly blessed , Ah but Soon after clearing Ireland, it met a Atlantic Storm,that 'nobody could have predicted' and came back mixing it up with torrential downpours. Bad luck that, but sill, there was little conceivable danger. The levels of Cesium in a few places in Scotland and Wales were a bit above what the "Experts" would like, but there was really nothing to worry about. Later we were told that the milk was fine. Then later, that as a precautionary measure, milk was not being collected, from a few precincts, which would not be named for the moment for fear of damaging tourism.

I left the UK a couple of months later for work related reasons.

THEN surprise, surprise: a few months later I read there has been 'a few' problems with the milk, and milk based products, and that some areas of Wales, would not be suitable for farming for many years.

The point is THE EXPERTS GIVE YOU THE BEST CASE SCENARIO, and they give the information late. Less comfortable outcomes are 'unlikely', 'highly unlikely' etc. etc. Why scare the moo cows?

I found nothing exciting or thrilling at all about Chernobyl. I will talk up worse case scenarios because the bias of the Government, Nuclear Industry Experts, Don't Scare the Cattle Commentators, Corporate Media and all the rest pointing in exactly the opposite direction. And there's nothing thrilling about any of that either.

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[stockholmer]

3. this defo puts a fork in the pro-nuke crowd,they can't spin this 1 as being in decrepit 'commieland'

:thumbsdown: to fission

[joshcryer]

5. Depends on the outcome. If the vessel remains intact, they will champion it as surviving...

...a major earthquake and tsunami.

[Hissyspit]

4. Chernobyl:

http://news.discovery.com/tech/top-five-nuclear-disasters.html

[Skip_In_Boulder]

6. Great Post!!!!!

[grahamhgreen]

7. Kick. No nukes. Period.

[snagglepuss]

8. Great post. K & R nt

[sendero]

9. Kind of like the economic meltdown..

... that "nobody saw coming" (except me and a handful of bloggers apparently) and the "recovery" that is indistinguishable from stagnation and the "victories" in Iraq and Afghanistan that are virtually impossible but every year are just around the corner.

I don't care much for conservative politics but I agree with them on one thing. Our government is a pack of liars, plain and simple, and it goes all the way to the top.

[denem]

10. ...

[Incitatus]

11. Only 1,000 barrels a day nt

[denem]

12. Of what? Plutonium waste used in MOX reactors?

[Incitatus]

15. That's what they said about the Deep Horizon. nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. Yep, how else can I get that glowing

skin tone?

I know the feeling.

:hi:

Over here, not happy at what I am seeing,

[Raine]

14. On point nt

[denem]

16. Written three days aga

Very sorry it's on point, except

there IS no chance of the smoke hitting the jet stream.

[neverforget]

17. I'm sorry

that you're correct

[JVS]

18. Having fun yet?