This breathless reporting by the Times is remarkable, and Tokyo Electric isn’t helping. You don’t visually inspect miles of nuclear power plant piping and acres of structures in a day or two. The company isn’t incompetent because within 1 day they didn’t know the full extent of the damage to the station. However, the unit survived the quake, was shutdown and residual heat removal appears to be working well. The plant was designed well and has performed well through the seismic event. There is no immediate danger of a nuclear accident and there is no evidence there was one to begin with.
Building nuclear power plants in earthquake prone regions is not a good idea. I’m take coal in my backyard.
The NYT has deemed the plant "damaged" after an extremely small spill and an extremely small leak ... without specifying the sources or the amounts.
I thought I read that the source of the spill was a container of low level waste, not from the operating equipment itself. Its entirely possible that the exhaust filter contains airborn particles from the spilled container.
(Another salvo in the statist war on nuclear power. Translation of that piece from Newspeak follows.)
With the exception of our home-grown One World PROPAGANDA, we, The New World Order cheerleaders at the NY Slimes can’t have an America no longer dependent on foreign sources of virtually everything.
I mean, after all, if America becomes a stand-alone system, how are we ever going to close the deal on all this “interdependence” necessary to weave the world into our sought after utopia where the poverty and tyranny of most of the rest of the world is brought here so that it might be shared equally amongst ALL nations?
You foolish Americans, with your neurotic concerns for such anachronistic ideas as “national sovereignty” simply don’t understand the BIG PICTURE. Think “Divine Right of Kings” here.
It is up to US, your really smart, well-educated betters to manipulate you into abandoning that archaic nonsense.
Trust us.