Japan's nuclear agency dramatically raises status after saying a day earlier that radioactive water leak was only an 'anomaly' (click here)
Justin McCurry in Osaka
The Guardian,
Japan is to issue its gravest warning about the state of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since the facility suffered a triple meltdown almost two and a half years ago.
The new warning, expected on Wednesday, comes only a day after the nuclear watchdog assigned a much lower ranking when the plant's operator, Tepco, admitted about 300 tonnes of highly toxic water had leaked from a storage tank at the site.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority has now said it will dramatically raise the incident's severity level from one to three on the eight-point scale used by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for radiation releases. Each single-digit increase in the scale actually represents a tenfold increase in the severity of a radiological release, according to the IAEA....
When anyone states alternative energies of any kind are more expensive than fossil fuels or nuclear they aren't seeing the ENTIRE cost and some of that cost is not measurable in dollars. Loss of land use and human life is not equivalent to any form of justification.
The long term return of alternatives out paces any other form of energy production.
Justin McCurry in Osaka
The Guardian,
Japan is to issue its gravest warning about the state of the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant since the facility suffered a triple meltdown almost two and a half years ago.
The new warning, expected on Wednesday, comes only a day after the nuclear watchdog assigned a much lower ranking when the plant's operator, Tepco, admitted about 300 tonnes of highly toxic water had leaked from a storage tank at the site.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority has now said it will dramatically raise the incident's severity level from one to three on the eight-point scale used by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) for radiation releases. Each single-digit increase in the scale actually represents a tenfold increase in the severity of a radiological release, according to the IAEA....
When anyone states alternative energies of any kind are more expensive than fossil fuels or nuclear they aren't seeing the ENTIRE cost and some of that cost is not measurable in dollars. Loss of land use and human life is not equivalent to any form of justification.
The long term return of alternatives out paces any other form of energy production.
