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Tokyo Professor: We are facing a nuclear winter in Japan
Toshio Nishi is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 1991 to the present, Nishi has been a distinguished guest professor at Reitaku University in Chiba, Japan, and from 2004 a graduate school professor at Nihon University in Tokyo. […] From 1985 to 1991, Nishi was a foreign correspondent for NHK Journal, a radio program of Japan’s largest media system. […]
On the Cesium Road
Hoover Institution’s Hoover Digest
Toshio Nishi
April 6, 2012 no. 2
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We realize now that the government and the power executives think we are not intelligent enough to understand the technical jargon about nuclear power. Of course, we were not familiar with those esoteric terms when the disaster struck. But we do understand we are facing a nuclear winter on this beautiful archipelago, placed on the Ring of Fire, and may not live long enough even to see such a winter.
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Since bombs fell on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan has cultivated a religion that condemns nuclear arms. Along the way, however, Japan metamorphosed into a strange creature that felt immune to things nuclear. Few Japanese left the country within the first weeks after the Fukushima meltdown. We can remain calm even in the midst of a horrible reality. Meanwhile, the falsehood of safe, cheap, and forever clean energy is swept away like the receding sea.
5 Comments on "Tokyo Professor: We are facing a nuclear winter in Japan"
BillT on Sat, 2nd Jun 2012 12:49 am
“… Meanwhile, the falsehood of safe, cheap, and forever clean energy is swept away like the receding sea…”
That says it all. Nuclear is a killer in ANY form.
oilforbreakfast on Sat, 2nd Jun 2012 4:12 am
The term “nuclear winter” means that after a nuclear exchange there is so much dust in the sky that the sun cannot penetrate and the earth cools as plants die from lack of sunlight. It refers to a state of winter lasting years. How could this so called scientist so misuse this phrase?
csatadi on Sat, 2nd Jun 2012 7:05 am
Yeah, epic fail.
Mr Toshio Nishi, try google if you want to know something. 😀
BillT on Sat, 2nd Jun 2012 1:25 pm
“Nuclear winter” can mean any disaster caused by radiation, not necessarily a bomb. If your country is dying, it is certainly not a nuclear spring.
Kenz300 on Sun, 3rd Jun 2012 11:35 am
Quote — ” The Asahi Shimbun, Japan’s premier daily, published in January the names of prominent politicians who have been regularly receiving “money donations” from Tokyo Electric. Former prime minister Taro Aso and some current members of Prime Minister Noda’s cabinet were on the list. ”
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Follow the money………
Nuclear energy is too costly and too dangerous. Money blurs the judgement of politicians.