Toward an Honest Debate on Fukushima

Toward an Honest Debate on Fukushima

from Nuclear Energy Institute by vbarq

In the aftermath of the Fukushima accident in Japan, there has been renewed interest in nuclear energy safety. Some of the debate and observations online have led to a healthy, robust discussion—regardless of your position on nuclear energy. Other sources have exaggerated or distorted facts or have been just plain wrong. An example of the latter is a new video posted by Brian Rich at examiner.com called “Dial ‘M’ for Meltdown.” In the interest of getting things right, we examined some of the claims in the video.