re: Incident?
So..... am I the only one who happened to see the Tepco conference on Sky News - 2 night's ago shortly before Midnight (UK Time) - where not only did Tepco admit to their failure with regards to safety checks at the nuclear plant - but they also admitted that they had been dealing with a constant radiation leak at the plant for at least 3-4 days before the quake hit??
Funny that I have yet to see any of the "experts" on the "news" touch that?
Wonder why that might be? Could it have something to do with - oh I don't know - radiation leakage happening BEFORE the quake hit?
I suppose they might try and argue negligence and pig headedness are 1 in 100 or 1 in 1000 year events too?
And "experts" and pro-nuclear folk wonder why the rest of us are terrified of nuclear?
"It's safe"
"nothing bad can happen"
"no no there are systems in place to protect against that"
"oh we never thought of that, but it's fine we will design the new reactors so that cannot happen again".
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"No it's safe now, we changed the design slightly"
"Trust us it won't happen again"
"oh.... we never thought about that, but it's fine we will redesign the new reactors so that cannot happen again"
And from this current incident all we have heard from the experts is that it won't be that bad, it can't get any worse, it won't cause any real damage to the public.
And for a period of a week - every day it got worse, every day it caused more problems - we are still being told that it will be all fine - despite Sky News scrolling across the screen that Iodine levels in the the water near the plant are now 2x the safe limit for infants.
Sure the media might not make the situation any better - but then neither do the nuclear experts - the way the "experts" speak nuclear is completely safe and there is no risk to anyone, anywhere, ever. (obviously that is an exaggeration - but I am suggesting that is how you come across)