Drink water, skip Kool-Aid
Yasuhiro Sonoda, a cabinet office parliamentary secretary, drinks a water taken from a radioactive puddle from the tsunami crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant during a news conference at the plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) headquarters in Tokyo, in this photo taken by Kyodo on October 31, 2011. He drank the water, taken from the basements of the No. 5 and No.6 reactor buildings, after a reporter asked him to do so to prove it is safe, Kyodo news reports. Picture taken October 31, 2011. Mandatory Credit REUTERS/Kyodo (JAPAN - Tags: DISASTER ENVIRONMENT TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS. JAPAN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN JAPAN
My favorite – and most frustrated – anti-nuke activist Helen Caldicott believes Fukushima drives Japan out of the industry and – by extension – kills the industry worldwide.
But telling WSJ piece last Friday suggests otherwise, for the best reason: (print ed. subtitle: “Few civilians want bombs, but leaders see plutonium playing role as deterrent.”
No, we’re not talking the NRC but the PRC.
Sixty-six years and counting without great power war, coincidentally preceding the most pervasive peace, the greatest expansion of human liberty, and the largest explosion of wealth creation the world has ever seen. Yes, a lot of things make all that happen, but killing great power war was essentially to starting them all.
Would be a very smart call by Japan.
