The sad reality is that the effects of a nuclear plant meltdown or spent fuel pool fire can be so sudden and so severe that the possibility exists that no safety precautions can be taken quickly enough to avoid the consequences completely. In the case of the Fukushima catastrophe, it took about a week to produce a measurable plume that traveled south down the coast and then swept inland across Tokyo. These plumes were laden with aerosolized plutonium. I ask you: how do you evacuate Tokyo in less than a week? How will we evacuate New York if Indian Point has an accident and produces a plume? Where do you relocate a city of millions of people? plumegate.wordpress/2013/10/09/fear-and-loathing-on-fukushima-unit-4/
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 06:28:02 +0000