Whomever would be at the helm of this country should DEMAND that all nuclear facilities be systematically shut down starting immediately ( or have a horizon time-line of no more than 180 days ).

Obama should be the voice of this, since he does sit in that office… but he or another would quickly be called an obvious dictator / tyrant / whatever… but we must ask ourselves:

Is the risk worth the juice? 

The immediate push to implement solar, wind, and all other alternative types of energy should be brought enforce to replace the dangerous and extinction-able capabilities these unstable creations of man have.

Can the Amerikan public sustain what we are witnessing in Japan?

Calling the Japanese “greedy” because they tried to conserve on the use of
space shows ignorance of the problem of land scarcity in Japan.  Japan is a tiny
island trying to contain too many people under contemporary standards of
“development.”  It is also energy starved, having few forests, insufficient water
power, no oil and almost no coal.  They were sold on nuclear by the U.S.
nuclear industry after WWII with the idea that they could become energy
independent. Being a highly industrialized society, their need for energy is
enormous.

The faults of the Japanese nuclear industry are the same as the faults of the
entire nuclear energy everywhere:  They are all capitalist enterprises bent on
profits plus a need for filling “rising expectations” and “development,
modernization etc.” 
  A nuclear accident can happen anywhere anytime if there is a nuclear plant
constructed, particularly if it is inadequately inspected (which most are) and
getting old and in need of an expensive shut-down for expensive repairs.
If it’s nuclear, uncertainties are guaranteed because thorough knowledge of
nuclear behavior is limited.  Need pushes taking unwise risks of all kinds.

TDoff:

I see. A Russian, steeped in capitalism, understands corporate greed. Nyyaaaa..I don’t think so. Maybe socialist or communist greed. But he most likely has no concept of corporations, let alone thier greed.

There is no question that some (especially older) nuclear plants are less safe than
they could be because the manufacturers wanted to make them cheaper. This was
in part fostered by competition with alternative energy sources. When the nuclear
industry was in its infancy, it was eager to demonstrate that nuclear energy could
as economically viable as coal, hydro, etc., so they made some decisions which
compromised safety.

It makes a good sample case for stronger government oversight of industry when
public safety is at stake. And public safety is almost always at stake.

See Adam Curtis’ “Pandora’s Box”, “A is For Atom” for more.

Suave rico, Andreev’s a Russian, and THAT qualifies him as an expert on corporate greed.

Look, this Japanese nuclear incident is troublesome.

But hey, we’re a lot better off than if GE had gotten away with their first nuclear-power-production-of-electricity plan for Japan. Just imagine, if GE were air-bursting H-Bombs, one a day, over Hiroshima, to power a circumference of wind turbines around the city.

We should all be thankful that wiser heads prevailed, and scotched that concept.

How does Andreev’s nuclear expertise automatically
qualify him as an expert on corporate greed? You folks
are so credulous sometimes.

WHERE IS THE NO LIE ZONE, NOWHERE! Corporations hide
nuke truth just as BP in the oil spill. LIARS FOR
MONEY, money whores, Humanity screws itself again, For
wealth we destroy our health

Sorry, Mr. Expert, but President Obama knows that nuclear power is “clean energy.”
Why believe a “Russian nuclear accident expert” when you can get the honest truth
from a Harvard lawyer?
http://tinyurl.com/4qew5ut

Oh my. Oh no. ‘Corporate Interests’ and ‘Greed’ are involved in the Fukushima nuclear tragedy?! Who could have guessed that? What is our world coming to when corporate interests and greed are intertwined and involved in our day-to-day lives? Maybe we should ask ‘god’ to do something about this.

Let us pray.