TV:
Fukushima crisis “much more severe than we’re led to believe”
- ‘Mind-boggling’
- Small quake could tip over reactors and start it all over again
- Japan “selling soul to devil” if they restart nuclear plants (VIDEO)
31
March, 2013
At
10:00 in
Michio
Kaku, Ph.D. in nuclear physics from UC Berkeley and protégé
of Edward
Teller,‘father
of hydrogen bomb’:
The crisis is much more severe than we’re led to believe. Documents
have been coming out over the last 2 years showing how the utility
and government deliberately suppressed vital information. Did you
know that even as the accident is progressing and they said don’t
worry and everything is under control, they were contemplating
evacuating Tokyo? Evacuating Tokyo, it’s mind-boggling, but that’s
how severe the accident was. Now right now we have 3 melted reactors.
It’ll take 40 years by their estimate to clean up this
disastrous accident and it could start again anytime soon. A small
earthquake could tip it over and the accident starts all over.
At
11:30 in
Kaku:
We have to monitor the food very carefully. Because we do know that
radioactive cesium with a half-life of about 30 years leaked into the
ocean and its water soluble and it did get into the fish and sea life
around Fukushima, but the government does monitor these things
and so far as we know, the food supply is safe. [See: Scientist:
“Effects of Fukushima will be increasing” as front edge of large
water plume arrives — Levels to rise for years — “It’s a
health and safety issue here” yet no one testing ocean]
At
12:30 in
Kaku:
Germany says never again — they saw what happened at Fukushima. A
disaster in Germany could literally wipe out Germany as a nation.
At 12:45 in
Kaku: Japan made a Faustian bargain, Faust was a legendary figure who sold his soul to the devil for unlimited power. That’s the Faustian bargain Japan made after the war. And now they’re going to have to reanalyze whether it’s worth it to sell your soul to the devil
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ReplyDeleteIn the last few years every time I hear Kaku talk I keep thinking of Josef Mengele. There is such glee and excitement in his voice and a smirking grin on his face. I imagine him rubbing his hands together as he imagines the world that's coming. It's not a world that I look forward to.
ReplyDeleteStrange that we've got Extinction being discussed on on end (Elizabeth Kolbert, Guy) and then this techotopian future on the other side.
Seems like since Guy McPherson was on her show that Abby Martin has gone into some type of reaction against what Guy said. She had on a number of guests (Tom Weiss, another guy a week ago Friday talking about the wonders of 3D printing) who see us moving to even greater heights.
It's freaking unreal. And then we've got Max Keiser on his show really saying there is a fertility problem on the planet. We've doubled population in 40 years and we've got a problem that more of us can't have more of us.
Maybe those soldiers that committed suicide in Jan 2014 as well as the bankers are the ones who have the right idea. At least we ought to be discussing why people are making this choice. Perhaps it is a way of regaining control over their own lives.