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AP Interview: Japan Nuke Plant Water Worries Rise


Environment  (tags: 200, 000 tons radioactive water, Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. Operator Tokyo, holes in reactors, groundwater leaking into reactors )

Judy
- 206 days ago - news.yahoo.com
Japan's crippled nuclear power plant is struggling to find space to store tens of thousands of tons of highly contaminated water used to cool the broken reactors, the manager of the water treatment team said.



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Jason S. (55)
Thursday October 25, 2012, 6:41 pm
No more nuke power in is world, good posting, thanks
 

Terry V. (46)
Thursday October 25, 2012, 6:57 pm
EARTH CRY video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jppmMcjgWS0
 

Monica D. (559)
Thursday October 25, 2012, 6:58 pm
Go solar and wind!
 

Dan and Tina Partlow (68)
Friday October 26, 2012, 9:42 pm
Not good!!
 

Judy C. (106)
Saturday October 27, 2012, 4:21 am
I wish we could learn something from this!
 

paul m. (97)
Saturday October 27, 2012, 6:33 am

Another disaster waiting too happen
 

Wim Zunnebeld (82)
Saturday October 27, 2012, 7:33 am
sad news
 

Wim Zunnebeld (82)
Saturday October 27, 2012, 7:33 am
sad news
 

Kiitty K. (0)
Saturday October 27, 2012, 9:39 am
:S
 

Muriel Servaege (16)
Saturday October 27, 2012, 2:29 pm
Sad news. Worrisome.
 

Ann Breeden (48)
Saturday October 27, 2012, 3:52 pm
I think what we learn from this is to not build any more nuclear plants on this planet.
 

Yvette T. (256)
Saturday October 27, 2012, 4:37 pm
everything involving radioactive materials and elements being manipulated by the ignorant arrogance of humans must come to a complete halt.
 

Gloria H. (80)
Saturday October 27, 2012, 6:48 pm
gee, ya think anyone in America is paying attention? Hey...maybe Monsanto will buy the lot, package it as a super weed killer and you will be able to find it on store shelves soon. They want to GMO our food, well, here' s a golden opportunity to buy low and sell high. And if the rest of California (HELLO>>ANYONE LISTENING?) doesn't vote FOR GMO labeling ( and is stupid enough to believe in industry ads), we might as well be scarfing down radioactive stuff too.
Vote for GMO labeling!!!! this is your mother telling you!!!! Vote so you know what the &%$ is in your food, your kid's food!!!!!!
 

Judy C. (106)
Sunday October 28, 2012, 12:02 am
We all seem to have more common sense than our elected officials, and of course the people running corporations.

Great point, Gloria! In my state, Nebraska, we have idiotic commercials about all the (imaginary) benefits of pumping tar sands oil through our state. And of course my city, Omaha, is next to the troubled Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant that lots of deluded politicians, as well as citizens want to restart. It's been shut down for over a year. It was initially closed for routine maintenance, and failed inspection. Meanwhile, it was almost inundated by the Missouri River flood in the Summer of 2011. It's considered one of the most troubled nuclear plants in the U.S.
 

Judy C. (106)
Sunday October 28, 2012, 12:03 am
Oh yes. I forgot to mention the electrical fire at Fort Calhoun Nuclear Plant in 2011.
 

John S. (232)
Sunday October 28, 2012, 4:32 am
Thanks for the article.
 

Frans Badenhorst (307)
Monday October 29, 2012, 12:10 am
noted - big problem
 

Rin S. (10)
Monday October 29, 2012, 6:12 am
What an absolute disaster. Noted.
 

Klaus Peters (5)
Saturday November 17, 2012, 8:11 am
We are slowly beginning to pay the price for mans inventions and misadventures. I think our planet had enough of us and is punishing us whith one natural disaster after another, and still we are not listening.
We all like to blame coal, oil, and nuclear power and especially the motor vehicle. And governments love to blame the motor vehicle, a good excuse to increase the petrol tax. We must admit that engine technology has made huge leaps and generally cars use half the fuel they did 10-15 years ago. Naturally big oil cried not fair, and doubled the price of petrol and government automatically got double the tax. Cars burn fuel a lot cleaner and leaner now, yes, we still need coal to make steel and oil to make plastic. Generally every car model gets cleaner. And with Hybrids and electric cars getting more popular it is a question, how do we generate power to feed them. Coal and Hydro like here in Australia (thank God we have no nuclear power), but most countries would still use dirty coal and more advanced countries nuclear power, no real gain to have an electric vehicle. I personally thought solar was the answer and had a system installed to cover my home electricity use and that of a potential electric car knowing the Chevy Volt was coming to our shores. Not an option anymore, at $60000 in our country I rather get a Blue Golf Diesel for half the price, considering the milage we do a year.

I got completely side tracked, I was attempting to lead up to the biggest polluters on our precious planet. Sure most of us use dirty power, some use it moderately and most of us waste it.
The biggest culprits contributing to the demise of this once beautiful planet are the industrialists since the industrial revolution started. Coal, Iron and workers with a short lifespan. These industrialists with the help of politicians needed war to further ambitions and greed. I am not talking about one country, but a number of countries, and that number is increasing. These leaches are responsible for the massive pollution of our planet, but war is never mentioned in terms of pollution, only the car so conveniently.
Coal, oil and more recently nuclear power is used to manufacture weapons of destruction. I am talking about war , not often mentioned as a cause of pollution. Lets start WW1 huge material battles, the massive artillery pieces they produced then caused massive pollution to manufacture, not even mentioning the explosions of millions of bullets, shells and mines. WW2 even worse,fire storms all over central Europe, bombs, incendiaries, phosphor or whatever they could find in their arsenal. Not to forget huge Pacific seabattles and nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. It went on to Korea. The cold war used up so much energy, it is unbelieveable. Vietnam totally got bombed and defoiled, Afghanistan got invaded and self destructed afterwards only to be blamed to be a terrorist and are still getting hammered. But not to forget several wars in Palestine/Israel. over the years and conflict again over the last few days. Two Gulf wars releasing massive pollution, I need to mention the Kuwaiti oilfields that were set alight by Saddams regime and his missile attacks on Israel. I may have missed a few like Yugoslavia and some USSR former republics. But I think the picture is clear, wars and their manufacture of weapons and munition are the biggest killer of our planet.
Unless every ethnic, religious group of any color or belief can talk to each other without hate or disrespect and put peace and harmony as one common goal, yes, we may have a chance. Otherwise we fight and perish together. We do have a choice!
 
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