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Coverup: Risk of Nuclear Melt-Down in U.S. Higher than it was at Fukushima
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Coverup: Risk of Nuclear Melt-Down in U.S. Higher than it was at Fukushima
The U.S. has 23 reactors which are virtually identical to Fukushima.
Most American nuclear reactors are old. They are aging poorly, and are in very real danger of melting down.
And yet the NRC is relaxing safety standards at the old plants. Indeed, while many of the plants are already past the service life that the engineers built them for, the NRC is considering extending licenses another 80 years, which former chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority and now senior adviser with Friends of the Earth’s nuclear campaign David Freeman calls “committing suicide”:
You’re not just rolling the dice, you’re practically committing suicide … everyone living within a 50 mile radius is a guinea pig.
Indeed, the Fukushima reactors were damaged by earthquake even before the tsunami hit (confirmed here). And the American reactors may be even more vulnerable to earthquakes than Fukushima.
Moreover, the top threat from Fukushima are the spent fuel pools. And American nuclear plants have fuel pool problems which could dwarf the problems at Fukushima.
And neither government is spending the small amounts it would take to harden their reactors against a power outage.
The parallels run even deeper. Specifically, the American government has largely been responsible for Japan’s nuclear policy for decades. And U.S. officials are apparently a primary reason behind Japan’s cover-up of the severity of the Fukushima accident … to prevent Americans from questioning our similarly-vulnerable reactors.
Source: [link to www.globalresearch.ca]
The People in the US need to wake up and open their Eyes,
you can't watch full of Anger and Fear for us here in Nippon, it is absolute useless, as long as your NPP are still Online!
You need to spend the rest of your Time for Self-Defence,
for Protection and Safety!
You should not spend to much Time for a Accident that already happened, it's stupid!
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