(freshrant.com) “We’ll be together with you to the very end,” the Japanese Prime Minister said during his first visit to the earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster area. One can only wonder what Prime Minister Kan's "end" will look like and if it will be a place Japanese will want to be.
As of this writing, the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Commission) calls the situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant "very serious." It was just four days after the accident, that Cenk Uygur, conducted a little noticed interview on March 15th on MSNBC. The following comments were made during Uygur's discussion with Ken Bergeron, a physicist and nuclear reactor specialist, who conducted research on nuclear accident simulations during his 25 years at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico.
What was different about this interview, it was not with a past or present NRC spokesperson or nuclear power plant operator or technician. In other words, like so many other interviews of the past three weeks, Dr. Bergeron does not live and breathe within the nuclear power industrial complex, but has dedicated his research to examining the nuclear power industry. Bergeron's research on nuclear accident simulations gives greater validity to his commentary, and as it turns out, makes more compelling his predictions, many of which have sadly transpired. The interview was conducted before there had been any independent verification that any of the reactor cores had been severely damaged.
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