Shows how much you know.

Fuku is Japanese and means luck and or good fortune.

That may still be a bad name for a nuclear reactor, but certainly not for the silly reason you allude to!

Old technology, I hope the brightest of those Japanese engineers comes up with a safer, less radioactive type nuclear power station.

If it can be done the Japanese will make it so.

The nuclear crisis in Japan stems from two things:  The need of technologized
people for vast amounts of energy (particularly electricity. )apan, with maybe
the best public transportation in the world,  plus a large manufacturing base,
has no coal, some water power but not enough, and before nuclear was
dependent on U.S. (largely) for importing oil. 
  The US, (after dropping two atomic bombs that wiped out what was left of
Jaan at the end of WWII,) developed nuclear energy (with all of its dangers.  But
- oh well—you do it if you can, and then you sell it to other people.  So the
US helped other countries develop nuclear, including Japan. 
  Anybody who has been to high school in Japan understands the dangers, but
the need was and is desperate.  Japan is also very good at meticulous
management, so they have done the best anybody can.  The truth is, nuclear is
unreliable at best, let alone in an earthquake region.
  If we had not developed the A-bomb, the H-bomb and done work on the
neutron bomb ....  if we had not promoted and capitalized nuclear energy for
electricity ... if ... 
  Many of us have been fighting nuclear (along with a large number of educated
Japanese,) for decades—for all the good it has done.  It is not an accident
that both countries are high-powered highly technologized capitalistic
countries with a huge demand for energy (It’s called “development”) and run by
an overbearing bureaucracy that prefers its people to be complacent and to
accept government management.

The nuclear crisis in Japan stems from two things:  The need of technologized
people for vast amounts of energy (particularly electricity. )apan, with maybe
the best public transportation in the world,  plus a large manufacturing base,
has no coal, some water power but not enough, and before nuclear was
dependent on U.S. (largely) for importing oil. 
  The US, (after dropping two atomic bombs that wiped out what was left of
Jaan at the end of WWII,) developed nuclear energy (with all of its dangers.  But
- oh well—you do it if you can, and then you sell it to other people.  So the
US helped other countries develop nuclear, including Japan. 
  Anybody who has been to high school in Japan understands the dangers, but
the need was and is desperate.  Japan is also very good at meticulous
management, so they have done the best anybody can.  The truth is, nuclear is
unreliable at best, let alone in an earthquake region.
  If we had not developed the A-bomb, the H-bomb and done work on the
neutron bomb ....  if we had not promoted and capitalized nuclear energy for
electricity ... if ... 
  Many of us have been fighting nuclear (along with a large number of educated
Japanese,) for decades—for all the good it has done.  It is not an accident
that both countries are high-powered highly technologized capitalistic
countries with a huge demand for energy (It’s called “development”) and run by
an overbearing bureaucracy that prefers its people to be complacent and to
accept government management.

This disaster was definitely avoidable. Anyone so stupid as to devise a plan to name a nuclear power plant ‘FUKU——-’ has no business fooling with Mother Nature, and should have been berthed in a padded room.

Newsflash: Both Democrats and Republicans are idiots! Both work for the same corporate powers and espouse lip service to the people of this country.

I hope this does not get any worse, for the sake of the Japanese people. Why does the government insist on doing everything the backward way?  Nuclear energy is so dangerous and passe for a world that acknowledges a greener and more sustainable mode of fueling cities.

Ho-Hum depends on ones perceptions of an others thought. While language written or spoken is how thought presumes to be exchanged though most times it is inadequate to the task.
So, reason may or may not be part of the inability for communication to be clear. Reason; evolution and the natural state of chaos that this planet exists in may appear to be ho, while in actuality it is what will be. Reason; 40 years of battle against the perpetrators of this and other crimes against the beings who inhabit this reality just may be the -hum. As of now no blows have been thrown,so far.

What disaster isn’t real? How one perceives any set of circumstances or the thoughts of others about those circumstances depends on ones personal experience’s.  One can have the emotion of empathy while still maintaining objectivity. Personal experience is irrelevant in this case as many have had experiences just as real as you believe this one to be to you, yet those picked in the random lottery that we define as life have no choice but to live with disastrous effects caused by those who would choose lies in the face of truth.

From Chaos comes change, and change while chaotic is inevitable.

My previous reference to your comment stands, but I appreciate your current
tone which is more to the point and serious. My intention is not to pick a fight
but I have to disagree with you that experience is irrelevant.
”One can have the emotion of empathy while still maintaining objectivity.“ I did
not see either in your previous post, but agree with your statement in principle
here.
In these types of posts, over the last few years, I have seen the acceptance of
flippant irrelevant, and even cruel, posts that leave no room for discussion. I do
not mind if people disagree with my opinion, but I would prefer discussion and
rebuttal over irrelevant nonsense. Perhaps that is the way people are these
days, and so be it, but I think it is unproductive and decreases our ability to
communicate rather then just throw then just be able to throw the most clever
verbal punch.
From chaos may come change, but it perhaps is not the best way to affect
change and I do not think it should be treated in such a ho-hum what-will-
be-will-be manner.

Forty years ago when these plants were built the people in these communities were
told little beyond that the plants were going to be built and that was pretty much it. I heard
one so-called American expert on BBC say that because these plants have
performed safely for forty years—not so as there have been issues in the past
with similarly aged nuclear plants—we should be pleased. What kind of nonsense is that?
We should be happy that we are possibly going to be radiated because we haven’t been radiated in the past. He does not live 185 miles away from one of
these damaged plants.
Right now in Tokyo, were I am, we are have been having after shocks every 20 to 30
minutes for the last two and a half days and just had a very strong earthquake that was centred in Chiba, right
next to Tokyo. Many areas in the region are still blacked out because of the
earthquake and our dependence on nuclear. This should be a wake up call.
And
by the way, this is a real disaster. People are hurting and many are still stuck on
roofs waiting for help. Comments about politics and about chaos being cool are
really inappropriate.

Well, already the Party is covering up and making excuses, double think in action. Although in the case of a melt down it will be fairly difficult to disguise an entire island that glows in the dark.

On the other hand I would be interested in how much of Japans whaling fleet was damaged or destroyed, and whether or not the cove of slaughter and the the surrounding area was taken out by the tsunami?

No one in the nuclear energy business has ever told the truth about the dangers. I doubt if they will start now. If a meltdown was to occur the whole country would be irradiated. And the fallout would travel far and wide.

We have poisoned our planet just about beyond repair. There is no place not touched by the deadly result of Capitalism and an over dependence on technology.

I wonder how long it will take for this catastrophic event to go down the memory hole, like the disaster in the Gulf.

First BP and the destruction of the gulf of Mexico, the turmoil of freedom in the middle east states, and know the overwhelming forces of nature in Japan, along with what may turn out to be one of the greatest disasters of the industrial age, who would have thought.

Chaos ain’t it kool?

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-14/obama-would-triple-
guarantees-for-building-nuclear-reactors.html

And now for you Democrats out there, proof that President Obama is an idiot.