Japan in the Fog of Crisis
This morning from the Houston Chronicle… FUKUSHIMA, Japan — An unexpected spike in pressure inside a troubled reactor set back efforts to bring Japan’s overheating, leaking nuclear complex under control Sunday as concerns grew that so far minor contamination of food and water is spreading. The pressure increase raised the possibility that plant operators may [...]
Why it Matters
Because the same re-assurances from experts, the same doubts that were disregarded as alarmism, the same ‘pragmatism’ that allowed reckless policy in the name of science and profit are behind the push to expand nuclear power today. Robert Peabody died almost fifty years ago in a nuclear plant that was sold as state of the [...]
Thinking of Japan
It’s been a crazy day, riding around on potholed roads listening to the radio. Reports from Japan of people without shelter in freezing temperatures, without water, food, electricity. Without any idea of what the next day will bring. Japanese architecture, I’ve always heard, is based on centuries of experience with earthquakes. No doubt the crisis [...]
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