By HIROKO TABUCHI and KEITH BRADSHER - Published: April 11, 2011 TOKYO - Japan has decided to raise its assessment of the accident at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to the worst rating on an international scale, putting the disaster on par with the 1986 Chernobyl explosion, the Japanese nuclear regulatory agency said on Tuesday.
The decision to raise the alert level to 7 from 5 on the scale amounts to an admission that the accident at the nuclear facility, brought on by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, is likely to have substantial and long-lasting consequences for health and for the environment. Some in the nuclear industry have been saying for weeks that the accident released large amounts of radiation, but Japanese officials had played down this possibility.
Without wanting to be cynical or impolite to the victims and their family from both Chernobyl and Fukushima I would like to put the World one question:How may more severe Nuclear Accidents does it take before the people of our Planet will shout we have had enough of this Nuclear Industry, Nuclear Power and related Nuclear Weapons ?
Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use
Japan Nuclear Disaster Put on Par With Chernobyl - IHT
Dear Ak,
ReplyDeleteHow many more accidents will it take for people to stop this insanity? Great question. I would have started shouting a month ago, but I actually do not need to call attention to myself.... people already think that I'm lunatic. So I will be peacefully protesting by flying a kite at the Avila Beach Pier near Diablo Canyon on April 16, 2011.
Thank you Ak for all you do,
lizzy (Elizabeth Lerer)
Note to crisismaven: Are you serious about advising people to cover their garden/lawn and open soil with foil? You must be kidding, but if you are not... tin or aluminum?
Dear Crisismaven,
ReplyDeleteYou have some interesting blog-items there.
But regarding the post you recommend:
With what are you going to water your plants in your field, if not by contaminated rain ? Are you going to spend all your bottled water and / or decontaminated water on your plants outside and die from dehydration ?
I would advise you:
- IF you are very close to the Nuclear Accident , to leave the area for good, never to return while you still can and as far away as possible.
In case of a Nuclear War:
- to get all the vegetables, which can also grow inside, out of the garden before the first contaminated rain falls. Then at least you have a small livestock which is not going to be contaminated.
- to make your self a storage room the minute you hear about a Nuclear Crisis. Store sucker and salt; tinned food: fish, vegetables and milk; dry beans and brown rice; and vitamin 30 and vitamin B 12 pills and of course not contaminated water.
- A storage of wood and or coal will enable you to prepare your raw food, and to decontaminate water by distillation. Tinned food can be eaten without cooking.
- Learn your children if the can understand all they need to be able to survive. And give them first aid lessons.
This is what my parents did during the Cuba Crisis. It was scary for me as a 10 year old. I still can bring up a clear picture what was done and why.
Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use
Hi Lizzy,
ReplyDeleteI would be interested in photo's of your anti-nuclear kite and kite flying to post on my blog.
Great Idea !
Ak
Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Enery Use