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What about the state of Japan’s existing nuclear wastes?

still no one is speaking about the state of the nuclear waste already in Japan

No Nukes Now? A Lesson From Japan and Questions About the Security of Japan’s Nuclear Waste THE HUFFINGTON POST,Michael Vazquez, 16 March 11, Three weeks ago, I highlighted the risks Japan faces, as a nuclear energy-dependent nation on an earthquake fault line, in my review of Into Eternity, a documentary about a nuclear waste repository deep underground in Finland. I also noted how Australia — which was the first choice of scientists in Finland for storage of nuclear waste — had just been hit by a 200-year flood.

Michael Madsen, the director of Into Eternity, elucidated this dilemma in irrefutably simple terms which give the lie to the claims and denials made by what I called “nihilists masquerading as realists” — about the viability and inherent danger of nuclear energy. He also quite clearly addressed the disaster that would ensue if the most likely scenario of water seeping into nuclear storage facilities came to pass.

In just a month’s time, we’ve seen acts of nature — an earthquake on an island that derives 30% of its power from nuclear energy, and a 200-year flood (and tremors) in the nation considered to be the soundest place on the planet to store nuclear waste — that should deliver satori about nuclear energy and human nature. And yet our president, whom I earnestly respect, and whom is taking on more challenges than I even think (or know) about, manages to say, when asked today about our energy policy and options to get us out of oil dependency: “We’ve been having this conversation for nearly four decades now… the same old… political playbook… nothing changes…” And he ends the litany of acceptable “clean energy” strategies available to us with nuclear energy.

Indeed, and alas, nothing changes……. still no one is speaking about the state of the nuclear waste already in Japan

Michael Vazquez: No Nukes Now? A Lesson From Japan and Questions About the Security of Japan’s Nuclear Waste

March 17, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, wastes