I agree Jed. The Fukushima accident was extrodinarily bad. It also should make us understand that we are not capable of anticipating the worst event that can occur. I suspect that there are scenarios much worse than what actually happened and thank God that they did not appear.
Energy sources other than nuclear will not have such devastating consequences, particularly ones that last for many decades. Once I was a proponent of nuclear energy, but now I would not want to live anywhere close to one due to the dangers that seem to come out of nowhere. The promise of LENR keeps me looking forward to a better future for my children. I just wish we could speed up the progress! Dave -----Original Message----- From: Jed Rothwell <jedrothw...@gmail.com> To: vortex-l <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sat, Mar 31, 2012 11:19 pm Subject: Re: [Vo]:The Fukushima disaster Jarold McWilliams <oldja...@hotmail.com> wrote: Nuclear is just as safe, if not more, than both of them. Evidently not. The Fukushima accident proved it is not safe. Just because it did not kill people right away that does not make it safe. It will likely kill many workers in the years to come. It caused tremendous havoc and cost ~$600 billion. Taking that much money out of the economy and throwing it down a black hole will surely cost many lives. A source of energy that can bankrupt the largest power company in the world in one day is not "safe." No sane business executive would select it. If anyone had known this might happen, no country would have built nuclear reactors. People do not seem to grasp the magnitude of this event. This is $600 billion in damage and 90,000 people's lives and livelihoods destroyed. No industrial accident in history was even remotely as destructive, except Chernoblyl, of course. - Jed
