You’d have to look a long time to find a meatier or more significant blog post than this one. Our declining privacy is a crisis. Our lives as individuals are rapidly being diminished. More and more we exist as manipulated numbers, figures in a computer.
When are we going to get concerned? When is this going to become an important issue?
This is an important post. I am deeply impressed. I hope to see more.
James Pilant
I hope this makes a difference. I was blogging about this back when it was one step above UFO posts. Things certainly have changed. There is talk of fines as high as 20 billion dollars although the white knights of Congress are already calling these monetary penalties for illegal or borderline illegal, “confiscatory.”
Pleas watch.
James Pilant
My special thanks to Beyond Money.
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This seems to be a day in which post after post has thoughtful comments. That makes it a good day. I appreciate thinking especially critical thinking.
This author has some thoughts and some questions. Should spent nuclear fuel rods be stored on top of currently operating reactors? I believe that is the practice in many countries including the United States.
However, I am not an expert on nuclear plants and if any of my kind readers would like to lend us a hand with this question, I will be happy to thank him and publish his thoughts.
James Pilant
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There are a lot of questions that need to be asked about Congress’ decision to increas the United States’ reliance on nuclear power.
There’s no question in my mind that the power plants are going to built either with private money or private money guaranteed by the treasury. The second course is the one chosen by the government.
Congress has acted to guarantee loans used to build these plants and indemnified the industry from damages over a certain point.
It doen not give one faith in the financial security of such an investment or the safety of the plants. But that’s how it’s going to be done.
The author is asking some important questions. Please read his post.
James Pilant
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There is a lot of interesting material in this. There is information from a half dozen articles in it. One of its messages is that the situation is getting worse not better.
I’ve been feeling more and more the same way. I think the situation is out of control. They are unable to control the leaks of radiation.
I hope I’m wrong. But they just don’t seem to be very competent. By they, I mean TEPCO. I don’t believe they could have ever stayed in operation as a utility without consistent cover-ups and other favors from the government, and this time it’s too big for the Japanese government to fix, although they tried.
James Pilant
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By all means, let’s join the struggle. Hazare’s battle is our battle, wherever we live, whatever we do, our lives are diminished by corruption – but also enriched by the efforts of the wise and heroic.
Go to Facebook – Join up.
James Pilant
Wow. I had no idea. I’m new to this field. I didn’t start blogging about nuclear energy on more than a casual level until the crisis began to unfold at Fukushima. It seems there a problems all over the world.
If the situation continues to worsen, I will write more about it but until then, I want to offer my thanks to memengineering for bringing it to my attention.
James Pilant
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The containment is not installed. It sits to one side where it was placed after it was removed for maintenance.
I’d like to you to watch the film. The building looks like it was direct hit by a half dozen bombs. It’s hard to see anything besides pipes, crushed concrete and steel reinforcement rods sticking out in every direction like match sticks.
James Pilant
My thanks to EHS & Safety News America.
Depending on the competence or planning of the Japanese government or industry has not been a good bet in the past, and I see no reason to believe the odds have improved.
But we can hope that the government forces the industry to solve the problem, the industry decides that competence rather than PR is the best way to go, maybe we will just get lucky.
I think some good luck is out best hope.
James Pilant
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This is a Commonweal Editorial. It says a lot of things about nuclear power and its future.
Public opinion is in flux right now. With the decision in Germany to give up nuclear power, we can expect more movement among peoples all over the earth to question the viability of nuclear energy. It can be hoped that other nations will reduce their dependence on these kinds of plants and turn to other forms of energy.
I have frankly stated that the United States government is almost a subsidiary of the nuclear energy industry and have predicted that nuclear power plant building will proceed as planned. I have no reason to believe that anything has changed or could change. There is no disaster big enough to deter the government from its plans.
Currently, the American obsession is with profit over all other values. Because of this we can no longer make rational decisions or apply a modicum of thinking to problem solving.
We live in a parched wasteland of the mind. In the public form thinking has ceased to be an important quality. I tell you truly that an intellectual wasteland often results in catastrophe or the creation of real wastelands like those around the Fukushima or Chernobyl nuclear plants.
James Pilant
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