Video: Fukushima residents report illnesses
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Former CTV Vancouver reporter Steve Chao is now with Al Jazeera, where he has been reporting on the Fukushima nuclear meltdown.
Chao isn't the only former local resident covering this story for the Qatar-based network. North Vancouver's Dorothy Parvaz wrote an impressive feature article last summer on nuclear safety.
Below, you'll see Chao's dispatch earlier this month, which focuses on the health effects of the catastrophe in Fukushima.
He begins with a teacher, who feels she has become a human guinea pig for all that's wrong with the Japanese government's response to the crisis.
Steve Chao reports on a Japanese teacher's health problems.
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Eric Chris
Mar 25, 2012 at 3:09pm
I’m a chemical engineer (process design for refineries and power plants) and don’t know of any way to make nuclear energy safe. If the cooling to the reactor is lost, the heat from the nuclear reaction runs away and you either have a meltdown or an explosion, Fukushima, for example. The only way to truly make nuclear power safe is to guarantee that the cooling to the nuclear reactor is never lost. This is impossible.
No one has come up with a solution to sprinkle magic dust on cesium to make it inert so waste and fallout from nuclear reactors can’t be handled safely. Nuclear safety is an illusion. Ban all nuclear power and stop building more nuclear power plants. People who support nuclear power are fools, and the mitigating effects of nuclear power on climate change are a distraction. More can be done to reduce carbon emissions with a change in lifestyle to reduce fossil fuel consumption than nuclear power can ever do.
Eric Chris
sianara nuclear energy...
Mar 25, 2012 at 10:37pm
So much for nuclear energy in Japan and afer the first nuclear reactor goes poof in the USA, so much for the nuclear energy in North America:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-17508657