Thom Hartmann: Fukushima...what you haven't been hearing and why

Nearly five months after the earthquake and tsunami - Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant is still spewing radiation. Yesterday - Tokyo Electric Power Company said it detected the highest radiation levels to date at the crippled nuclear facility - recording ten thousand milliSieverts an hour - the maximum level the devices can even measure. The measures were taken just outside ventilation stacks in reactors one and two - reactors we saw explode in the weeks after the quake and tsunami. So what's going on here? Could the nuclear crisis in Japan ACTUALLY be worsening after 5 months? Here to shed some light on this issue is Kevin Kamps - Nuclear Waste Watchdog at Beyond Nuclear

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[OnenessNow]

311 the World woke up and decided NO NUKES NO FLUKES We ask for the END OF THE NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE ON EARTH. We DEMAND THE END OF TOXIC POWER SYSTEMS ON EARTH. Let us BAN HYDRO FRACKING IN AMERICA as this POISONS MILLIONS OF GALLONS OF WATER Let us DEMAND THE END OF THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL CORPORATE COMPLEX NOW. Let us DEMAND THE END OF ENDLESS WARS ON HUMANKIND Let us DEVELOP IN UNITY the Energy of SOLAR, MAGNETIC, WIND TURBINE,GEO THERMAL&HYDRO KINETIC 4 ALL POWER

[FoxLies247365]

@Prometheukles im pretty sure there is more KW/h coming from the sun...lets go solar

[louloub5]

unreal, its time for all countries to realise that nuclear energy will destroy our planet and everyone born to live on it ...this is the end of the road ! Provide each home woth wind and solar oh i forgot in doing that gov wont be making money on its sale and selling uranium to make amunition! bunch of psychopath!

[RVAepiphanyseeker]

... And now Lake Anna in Louisa Virginia ! Built ON TOP of a fault and one of the four diesel generator went down for coolant failures. And the dam creating the coolant pond is rated D- by the US Corps of Engineers. Oh, and we just had an earthquake as strong as the maximum rating for the plant as well a hurricane AND that's with the equipment approaching its max lifespan! Radiation makes concrete and metal brittle ... and its on a ... faultline. Don't buy any real estate in Va !

[jayber008]

DO NOT EAT FROM THE OCEANS OR DIE

[jayber008]

IF THEY HAD BUILT HYDROGEN PLANTS WE WOULD NOT BE FACING THIS DEATH SENTENCE

[The007blimp]

@Coaljet The decisive action needed is for people to boycott the power companies building nuclear power stations e.g. EDF here in Europe... if they stop making money they'll have to rethink their policies or go broke! Don't wait for politicians to sort it out...

[DuecePiece]

Wanna know what Earth will look like in 50 years because of Fukushima? Play the video game FALLOUT 3!!!!

[Coaljet]

@OnenessNow Sounds good, but what good are all these demands when it will not budge the decision makers one bit? Those in control clearly aren't taking the decisive action needed--as usual, petty politics, special interests and plain old cheapness always get in the way. Penny wise, pound oh-so-foolish. The art of spin has evolved to such a level that ordinary people really have no way to know whom to believe.

[retsaoter]

... I'd take 1000 new nuclear power plants over 1 fossil fuel plant. I am more worried by the AGE of our nuclear power plants than any natural disaster. Most of our reactors are nearing 40years old. Considering the US gluttonous need for electricity I find this the most terrifying thing about nuclear technology.

[rocksolidnw]

@OnenessNow Beautiful!