Fukushima: an even bigger danger to come?

Via Zero Hedge, Saturday’s article from George Washington’s
Blog[1]
recaps the disaster so far – Tepco having no idea how to solve the problem, no-one
sure of the state or exact position of the reactor cores, continuing massive
leakage of radioactive water that will be taken to California by ocean currents.

In Mid-August, RT.com reported[3]
the operation to remove spent fuel from under the No. 4 reactor; a minor
earthquake or dropping a fuel assembly could also trigger a nuclear fire.

The technology is still in its infancy, despite the twisted
assurance of some UK nuclear shill years ago who claimed that the industry had
100,000 (or was it a million?) years’ experience, as though 50 yearling babies
could be credited with the knowledge of a 50-year-old adult. Yet the implications
of shutdown and cleanup are very far-reaching: the half-life of Uranium 238 is
4.5 billion years, longer than the distance between us and the first
monocellular life on Earth (see Slide 11 for other examples).

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