More than two years after the Fukushima meltdown, the nuclear horror shows no signs of abating. Radioactive water is leaking out at a rate of 400 tons a day. Naturally, TEPCO officials argue that the level of radioactivity in the water is within the "legal" limits (whatever that means for real live humans and non-humans) even as they admit to being baffled as to what is going on. Meanwhile, the Japanese government seems committed to spending public funds for containing a disaster brought to us by TEPCO, a private company. It's the same story - public funds used to support and bailout private appropriation and clean-ups. Meanwhile in Tamil Nadu in India, despite the massive protests, national and global, the nuclear reactor has reached "critical stage" and is all set to begin generating the chimerical "pollution free" energy.
An editorial in Japan's leading national daily, the Asahi Shimbun:
"For decades, nuclear weapons and nuclear power generation have generally been treated as separate issues. But is this the right approach?
Japan is the only nation to have experienced nuclear devastation with the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki 68 years ago. It has also suffered a nuclear disaster that caused tremendous damage in Fukushima Prefecture.
We can no longer afford to put off confronting the unimaginably frightful risk posed by nuclear power."
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