The U.S. response to the financial crisis showed scant evidence that we learned from our mistakes.
For Clue to How U.S. Would Respond to Its Own Fukushima, Look at Financial Crisis
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Asia & Pacific
Fukushima: How Can It Be So Hard to Keep Water in a Pool?
By initially overlooking the spent fuel rod pools, the Japanese let a small problem snowball into a national emergency.
Nowhere to be Home
When I was in the army, I thought the guerillas were trying to break my country, to destroy my country—this is how I used to think. Not now, now I’m not the same. I don’t know why people join the military. As for myself, I was forced to be a soldier. If I had stayed with my family, I would not have been a soldier. I think the army takes children because they need to strengthen their forces, increase the number of soldiers. I think there is a reward for each soldier who catches a child. Any time a soldier recruits someone to join the force, they get a lot of money. Older soldiers told me that if they recruit someone, then they can quit the army.
Monbiot May Be Right, But He’s Not Doing Anti-Nuclear Forces Any Favors
According to the great British writer, coal is always a problem, nuclear energy only sometimes.
Pro-Nuclear Energy Forces Barely Pause to Rubberneck at Fukushima
Global warming and financial considerations fuel the proliferation of nuclear energy.
In a Perfect World, Fukushima Would Halt Nuclear Renaissance in Its Tracks
When it comes to nuclear energy, a return to the Dark Ages can be a good thing.
Nuclear Energy Time-Out
Sometimes chaos comes along as a wake-up call to humanity. The double-whammy of the earthquake-tsunami in Japan this week is overwhelmingly sad. To be at the total whim of the elements — to be wiped out by a wave of water from the sea – is an insult to the arrogance of modern humanity that thinks it can insulate and protect itself with technological know-how from the calamities visited on our earth by Mother Nature.
Worse Than a Meltdown? Could Be, Reports “Hysterical” New York Times
While many advise against over-reacting, chances are the Japanese nuclear crisis could be worse than a meltdown.
When Even Lieberman Is Concerned, the Nuclear Renaissance Is in Trouble
Is the nuclear energy too entrenched, especially with Peak Oil looming, to be slowed in its tracks by the reactor crises in Japan?
Will Fukushima Reactor Crisis Finally Sour Japanese on All Things Nuclear?
The Fuskushima crisis may provide an opening for those opposed to nuclear energy.