{"id":41,"date":"2013-03-10T15:42:43","date_gmt":"2013-03-10T19:42:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/fukushima-still-broken-2-years-after.html"},"modified":"2013-03-10T15:42:43","modified_gmt":"2013-03-10T19:42:43","slug":"fukushima-still-broken-2-years-after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/03\/fukushima-still-broken-2-years-after.html","title":{"rendered":"Fukushima still broken 2 years after"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nTomorrow is the second anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami\nthat heavily damaged four of the six nuclear reactors at\n\n<\/a>\nFukushima Dai-ichi in Japan on 11 March 2011, also known as 3\/11.\nThe broken reactors at Fukushima continue to leak radioactive substances into\ngroundwater, the sea, and the air, where it is carried across oceans\nto the U.S. and elsewhere.\nAnd it could still get much worse:\n\nif the No. 4 reactor pool, still suspended in the air, collapses and causes<\/a>\nthe disintegration of spent fuel rods from all the other reactors there,\nTokyo, 200 miles away, will have to be evacuated.\nFukushima’s GE reactors are the same GE Mark I design as Southern Company’s\nPlant Hatch 1 and 2 only 100 miles from here at Baxley, GA,\nand about 200 miles from Atlanta and Charleston.\nHatch\n\nis leaking radioactive tritium<\/a> into our groundwater again.\nFive more reactors\n\nwithin 500 miles of here<\/a>\nare also GE Mark I.\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nAmong the 311 or so facebook pages and websites about Fukushima\nor against nuclear power is this concise one,\n\nUnplug Nuclear Power<\/a>,\nwhich offers a simple action anyone can take tomorrow:\n<\/p>\n

\n

\nOn 3\/11, we will mark Fukushima day by using as little utility\nsupplied electricity as possible. This direct Action is designed to\npunish the utility companies for continuing to push for nuclear\npower even after the Fukushima disaster has proven that it is just\ntoo dangerous. On that day, we will punish them in the only way that\nthey understand, by denying them our money. There will be four\nlevels of participation, go to the website,\n\nwww.unplugnuclearpower.com<\/a> for a more complete description. Also, be\nsure to join the Event. Finally, if you are in a group our\norganization that can endorse this Action, please let us know.\n<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\nAs\n\nJeremy Rifkin so concisely spelled out,<\/a>\nnuclear power is over\n\n\nas a business model worth investing in.\nAs Rhone Resch spelled out last year,\n\nsolar power is worth investing in<\/a> but Georgia’s\n\n1973 Territorial Electric Service Act<\/a>\nmakes that difficult.\nAnd Georgia Power and its parent the Southern Company don’t want to\nchange that law, and why should they while they have a monopoly\nand are busy soaking up money through their\n\nthree-legged nuclear regulatory-capture boondoggle<\/a>\nfor building new nukes at Plant Vogtle on the Savannah River,\nalready\n\n19 months late and around a billion dollars over budget<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n

\nBuilding big centralized baseload nukes is a\n\nbet-the-farm risk<\/a> (Moody’s phrase)\nespecially now that\n\nsolar is at grid parity in India and Italy without subsidies\nand Deutsche Bank expects<\/a>\nthe same to be true in the rest of the world by 2014.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe way Southern Company got to be the biggest electric utility\nin the country was by\n\nFukushima economically taking down TEPCO in Japan and e.on in Germany<\/a>.\nDuke is now the biggest in the U.S. since it bought Progress Energy of Florida.\nAnd one of Duke’s first moves after the merger was to\npermanently close the broken\nCrystal River nuke.<\/a>\nEven TEPCO, owner of Fukushima Dai-ichi, is\n\n<\/a>\n\nbusily building solar plants inland and tsunami-proof windmills offshore.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nIt’s time for Georgia Power and Southern Company to halt the Vogtle\nnuke boondoggle and get on with solar power in Georgia and wind off the coast.\n\nSolar and wind are going to win<\/a>\nand Georgia Power and SO can stop dragging Georgia back and instead\nlead the way for Georgia to benefit in jobs and profits from exporting energy\n\nthat an Arizona State University study spelled out two years ago.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n\n<\/a>\nNuke is dead.\nJobs, profit, and ecoonomic independence through solar power,\nplus plenty of clean air and water: let’s go there!\n<\/p>\n

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