BNC Some Other Perspectives on Fukushima

Some other perspectives on Fukushima Barry Brook URL: http://wp.me/piCIJ-18r

Apart from getting on with my life (e.g., building a new computer, catching up with my backlog at work, spending time with the family, etc.), I've been spending the last few days reading widely on what other people have had to say, in reflection, on the Fukushima crisis. Here are some highlights:
1. Bill Tucker, author of the book "Terrestrial Energy" (which I discussed in detail in this post back in 2009, and reviewed here), wrote a piece for The Americal Spectator called "Pass the Plutonium".  The leading paragraph:

People think that Fukushima will mean the end of nuclear power, but I'm convinced it's the opposite. We're going to lose our nuclear virginity over this accident and start seeing the world as adults. In fact it's already happening.

2. The video linked to in the image below was mentioned in the BNC comments -- an ABC (US) news feature called "Japan Nuke Crisis: American in Dead Zone". It's a perspective on local area an sea water radiation levels, from an American doctor Robert Gale (a radiation expert) sent by the US to advise the Japanese government on Fukushima, and has years of experience working around Chernobyl. He is definitely worth listening to...

3. Mark Lynas (author of the wonderful albeit troubling book Six Degrees) and Chris Goodall (author of Ten Technologies to Fix Energy and Climate) -- two very serious and critical thinking environmentalists trying to tackle climate change -- offer this excellent essay: The dangers of nuclear power in light of Fukushima. You really must read it all, but here, as a taster, is their final paragraph:

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