FredlaMotte how is it hysteria to talk about these reactors melting down or exploding and spraying radioactivity all over Tokyo, a city of 34 million people? It’s not hysteria when it’s the truth. And as for material aid, the situation is so appalling that no one even knows where to begin and there have been several aftershocks, any one of which could be as damaging or even more so than the original earthquake so helping those who are homeless, injured, hungry and cold is fraught with danger. The real problem here is the nuclear reactors which should never have been built in the first place but successive Japanese governments lied to their people about the risks for many decades assuring them the worst would never happen. Well, now it has and it’s not hysteria to say so.

My Japanese friends tell me that the American medias hysteria about nuclear disaster is NOT helpful to the immediate needs of the Japanese people right now, which is material aid.

They are all General Electric Plants. GE leading the
way.

The fact is that no nuclear reactor makes money, Say it ain’t so. No nuclear reactor ever has. The only money made is from the mining of uranium and the making of nuclear weapons and uranium depleted weapons. This is a completely destructive technology in the long run, one that is so costly to build and maintain that the taxpayers have to subsidize it. The taxpayer is forced to pay for nuclear reactors whether they want them or not. And any poll or referendum ever taken has shown that the average citizen doesn’t want a nuclear reactor in their backyard or anywhere near them. But the greedy corrupt fools who build them and the greedy corrupt politicians who are in on the deal are completely irresponsible.

Only intensive brainwashing could have allowed twenty nuclear reactors to be built in a country that had two atomic bombs dropped on it at the end of world war two and which is in an active and well known earthquake zone. Japan is the most earthquake prone country on earth and in some cases has put three or four reactors on relatively small islands. Three reactors in the tsunami hit area are already in meltdown and this will contaminate the groundwater. If they explode, radioactivity will be sprayed out into the air and carried on the wind. A fourth explosion has just occurred at one of the reactors. There is simply no way you can say using nuclear energy will ever by ‘a lot better’ than any other form or combination of energy generation. It is a recipe for turning the earth into a dead planet. Those who claim it is ‘clean’ energy are brain dead or in on the scam.

“They say that god makes problems just to see what you can stand before you do as the devil pleases, and give up the thing you love. But no one deserves it.”