While traveling in Japan several weeks ago, Fairewinds’ Arnie Gundersen took
soil samples in Tokyo public parks, playgrounds, and rooftop gardens.
All the samples would be considered nuclear waste if found here in the US.
This level of contamination is currently being discovered throughout Japan.
At the US NRC Regulatory Information Conference in Washington,
DC March 13 to March 15, the NRC's Chairman, Dr. Gregory Jaczko
emphasized his concern that the NRC and the nuclear industry presently
do not consider the costs of mass evacuations and radioactive contamination
in their cost benefit analysis used to license nuclear power plants.
emphasized his concern that the NRC and the nuclear industry presently
do not consider the costs of mass evacuations and radioactive contamination
in their cost benefit analysis used to license nuclear power plants.
Furthermore, Fairewinds believes that evacuation costs near a US nuclear
plant could easily exceed one trillion dollars and contaminated land would be
plant could easily exceed one trillion dollars and contaminated land would be
uninhabitable for generations.
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