Part I - "Fukushima - Undoubtedly the biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl" - A.Gopalakrishnan

Newsclick interviews Dr. A. Gopalakrishnan, former chairman of the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board in India on March 24, 2011. He speaks about the primary reasons for the continuing disaster in the Fukushima reactors following a major earthquake and tsunami in Japan. Second part of Interview can be seen here - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTeMFgvPPuk

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[CrudeDude]

"Fukushima - Undoubtedly the biggest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl"

Utter bullshit. The radioactivity released from Fukushimas' destroyed reactors will DWARF the releases from Chernobyl!

[papapetad]

@BabyIYours It will mean that the wealthiest people in the world will have access to the best preventative measures known to date to vastly lessen their chances of being fatally contaminated, while everyone else will die sooner. I bet you world governments are right now being specifically informed of the extent of this fuckup and they are obtaining the best food and water you can get and they have a backup plan should it all turn much more sour than it already is. Something to think about

[heyaisdabomb]

@BabyIYours It means don't eat sea food, especially out of Alaska.

[spiritualastronomy]

In 1945 the Japanese were willing to dig in and die for their country. They flew airplanes into our ships on suicide missions. Now, the Japanese have a real threat to their homeland, and the world. The Japanese are going to have to go into those reactors, and they will die as true heros...but they have to put water on this meltdown. It might cost 20,000 lives to stop it. They lost 20,000 at Iwo Jima, they can sacrifice lives now. I'm sorry to be so blunt. This is war. -JK

[onetwothree22]

I guesssss , that i shouldn't guess.. i dont know anything about these things.. I just know to donate if any such thing happens...

[tatsf226]

why Japanese build nuclear plant on earthquake soil? they should not have build it at the first place.

[hapelliotte]

I totally disagree with this guy talking. Basically commending the Japanese for being the best prepared and designed etc etc

NONSENSE!!!

"Japan’s TEPCO has a corrupt past of falsifying inspection records of its nuclear plants" ....google that. Japan's nuclear industry is a corrupt disaster. If fact American scientists QUIT in the 1970's because they were so against the design of this unsafe reactor.

and the company is STILL lying.

[willyzNL]

what do you think about this? watch?v=FKqnoYFV3xA  a piece of aerial vid from fukushima with movement inside no.4 reactor

[HarvardBob]

Excellent commentary. My only disagreement is the Tsunami protection design was not based on current state of the art modeling which would have prevented the whole sequence from happening if backup power had been available.

[davemartin8686]

Very informative, thanks!