Last fall, a South Korean filmmaker released the trailer for a feature - length disaster movie that
opens with a nuclear power plant exploding and ends with the hero crying for his mother.
In stark contrast, the very serious problems
with the nuclear power plant in Fukushima have unearthed another, more problematic aspect of Japanese culture: their amazing ability of political denial in the face of scientific facts.
The President of Ukraine, Leonid Kravchuk, will meet representatives of Western governments in Vienna later this month to discuss what to
do with the nuclear power plant at Chernobyl.
Ask some of our navy veterans here, they'll tell you, we've been sailing navy ships around the world for 50 years
with nuclear power plants on them.
Richter claimed that radioactivity is not a health risk
with nuclear power plants only producing a fraction of the radioactivity the bones of living humans generate.
Legal battles have already been fought in the US over scarce water resources in
regions with nuclear power plants, including the Catawba river basin in the Carolinas and the Apalachicola / Chattahoochee / Flint river basin in Georgia, Florida and Alabama.
Most of the support for the site is among senators from industrial
states with nuclear power plants, says Bob Loux, director of the Nevada Nuclear Waste Project Office.