I have been sitting here, closely following the news for quite some days now and even though you seemingly suffer from an overload of information these days, this time all you hear is the same things over and over, with no information that truly offers you an overview as to what has happened in Fukushima. Instead of that, you get pictures of the Tsunami that you have seen a dozen times before, be it on the newspapers, on the internet or on TV.
It is not that I do not find these pictures horrible, but the more you see them, the more they lose their impact on you. Besides of that, I am really desperate to know about if we will have fall out or not, as it still remains unclear if there was radioactive material coming from inside the nuclear power plant and if this material may already be on its way in form of a radio active cloud.
I can understand that the japanese officials from TEPCO do not want to scare people too much, as , with Tokyo being under possible trouble, you would face 45 million people panicking at once, but they should actually find a way to come across with the real information.
In the rest of the World and in Japan itself you can barely protect yourself from what could possibly happen, if you have no idea of what is going to happen. Of course, the idea that radioactive material is on its way is mere speculation on my behalf, however, in the last press session of the TEPCO officials their faces said more than a thousand words. So, although it would be bad news that something happened, I wish that they would tell us now, instead of holding it back.
It bothers me, too, that we still cling to these methods of producing power even though we know they are not as "clean" as cheap or as safe as is claimed. So, okay, no gungey smog chugs out of smokestacks, but radioactive material isn't "clean", it is invisible dirt; nuclear power only seems cheap because they never include the costs of dismantling the power stations or permanently disposing of the radioactive waste, let alone the costs of anything going wrong, to fool the people, who will some day have to pay (not the energy providers though, they will be long gone with their profits); and it will never be safe. Fukushima has demonstrated this. A country with the highest standards and technology like Japan was also not able to foresee the unforeseeable.
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