Published: March 3rd, 2012 at 2:42 pm ET
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Title: Richard Engel journeys to Fukushima evacuation zone
Source: Rock Center with Brian Williams, NBC
Date: March 3, 2012
Richard Engel: If there were ever to be some sort of nuclear apocalypse, this is what the morning after would look like. Entire towns just abandoned, lifeless, left exactly as they were. Nothings coming back.
Richard Engel’s full report, ‘The Fallout,’ airs Wednesday, Mar. 7 at 10 pm/9 c on NBC’s Rock Center with Brian Williams.
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Published: March 3rd, 2012 at 2:42 pm ET
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Richard Engel,May be the best journalist on the Earth.
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steady on
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How about "in the one-year-late-for-the-event" category?
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Not when it comes to Fukushima. They did not even get him a translator it seems.
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Yikes, that place is creepy.
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What's creepy is that nothing is being done around Fukushima: compare the lame and futile Tepco temperature-control ruse to the colossal $1 Bil plus, multi-national Russian-European domed arch, being constructed on rails a safe distance from the cracked and leaking Chernobyl sarcophagus #2, which arch will be assembled and later rolled into position, inside which contamination management efforts can begin.
It is a disgrace that Japanese and related nuclear authorities, and their hired media, have been so adept at perception management that virtually no consensus has developed regarding a proper Fuku containment solution, as well as a disappointment that otherwise concerned bloggers see no lessons to be learned by recognizing the astounding disparities between the 2 containment approaches.
See the effort being undertaken for Novarka (The New Arch) here, and then see how you feel about the Japanese tempurature-control and ocean-dilution solutions:
http://videosift.com/video/Encasing-the-Unsafe-Chernobyl-Reactor-in-a-Huge-New-Arch
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I agree. Perception-management is not what this dying world needs.
We need to get real, and grow up.
Too many sissies in this world, and it's time to stand up. We dealt with Hitler, and now it's time to deal with TEPCO and their cronies.
Note to the rich: Your money is no good in a radioactive world. You can't hide out in your mansions any more – this affects all of us.
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Yes, we must stand up and fight the nuclear shills. Scientific American, TEPCO, Exelon, and on and on. I hope I can make the demonstration in Vermont this month. Even though we have all been dosed with an astronomical amount of PU, our voices against nuclear power must be heard and this insanity must stop. NO NUKES
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moonshellblue–You asked for the link to the Scientific American article on a different thread. Here it is:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=japans-post-fukushima-earthquake-health-woes-beyond-radiation
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Interesting read.
Completely focusing on short-term effects, denying any long-term effects.
Scientific American belongs to the strictly pro-nuke Holtzbrinck media group.
They are spin-lying in favor of the nuke industry everywhere they can.
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@AtomFritz..do clue us in to the long term effects..
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I spent 1.5 hours last night watching a Documentary of the Battle of Chernobyl. Rarely will I give a news source 5 minutes of my time, it was well worth it.
http://nukepimp.blogspot.com/p/chernobyl-how-real-men-fight-nuke.html
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1 km?
I'm impressed. I wouldn't get closer than a 100.
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Saying, "If there ever was a nuclear apocalypse." This sounds like Japan isn't already a nuclear apocalypse and that we aren't by using nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants already ensuring that there is no escaping a nuclear apocalypse. What is he doing going within 1 km. of Fukushima Daiichi in only a little mouth mask? A nuclear apocalypse is so much worse than an empty store. With a nuclear winter there will be no way to grow food and there will be untold misery, disease, and starvation. And there will be no wind or solar power even possible any more.
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Also, "this is what it would look like" allows an audience to imagine themselves looking at it or, more likely, allows an audience to imagine themselves sitting on the couch munching chips as usual while some intrepid paper-masked journalist describes the scene.
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i think this is next corner super market, who cares… he was alloed to film only 1000meters fron NPP?
Is there an exclusion zone of 20miles?
What does it mean?
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Hey folks, I have been fighting nuclear power for decades and several years ago I designed a new radiation symbol based on the old one and then put it on a shirt. Check it out.
http://www.zazzle.com/name_your_shirt-235274533384046138
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My mistake. Lloyd is a certified spammer. He is peddling his shirt all over this forum. Run along Lloyd…maybe head to e-bay. This is not the place to capitalize on the Nuclear theme.
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$31 for a fn tshirt? cmon dude, back off or will be petition to have you banned.
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