Japan Nuclear Breach -- It's Time for Not 1, Not 2, But 3 Reality Checks
By Arthur Herman
Published April 01, 2011
| FoxNews.com
Now that the media have had their fun scaring us to the point of panic about the Japanese nuclear debacle, it’s time for a reality check.
Certainly the news there is horrific enough, even when you factor out the damage done at the Fukushima nuclear facility. A 9.0 earthquake, perhaps the worst to hit Japan in a thousand years, hoisted 15,000 cubic kilometers of ocean ten to twenty feet above normal sea level, and hurled it at the east coast of Japan, including the Fukushima facility. In a matter of hours that tsunami killed some 11,200 people–that’s almost four 9/11's. It’s amazing anything’s left standing, let alone a pair of forty-year old nuclear reactors.
At the risk of their lives, crews are battling to halt the spewing radiation and to cool down the reactors’ cores. Seventy years ago Japan’s finest sacrificed themselves in battle for their emperor. Today, they are sacrificing themselves for the sake of modern industrial civilization.
Because this tragedy has emboldened its foes. Green activists of various ilks hope it will doom the future of nuclear energy, just as the BP oil spill shut down offshore drilling for this country–at least for now.
I'd just like to see the plan these Green Activists have for our energy needs. I wonder if they realize how much more polution there would be if the oil was was shut off, if nuclear plants were closed, and if coal was eliminated? We would be burning every tree we could find to stay warm....think of that massive brown cloud.
Where is this plan, anyone know? (Maybe Al Gore could make another movie to explain it for us)
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
