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Despite an unprecedented worsening disaster, government and industry officials say "we should not be concerned." However, according to Dr. John Price, former member of Britain's National Nuclear Corporation Safety Policy Unit:
"(R)adiation leaks will continue....(It will) be 50 to 100 years before nuclear fuelrods have cooled enough to be removed," but thousands of them have already fully or partially melted.
From another perspective, Fukushima is both disaster and opportunity to finally free societies of nuclear technology because it destroys life - perhaps entirely eventually unless totally abandoned.
For the past month in Japan, unreported anti-nuclear lectures, petitions, weekend protests, and other public initiatives have rallied under slogans like "nuke free," "Oppose nuclear power," and "Sayonara nuclear power." Despite public anger, however, especially in northern Japan, efforts far beyond protests are needed across many countries to demand what's no longer acceptable - a ticking time bomb destroyer of worlds.
Fossil fuels, including oil, pose other dangers, heightening the urgency to replace them as well, especially with available safe, clean, renewable alternatives if fully implemented. On March 29, nuclear expert Karl Grossman's article headlined, "Renewables Are More Than Ready," explaining that:
Alternatives like wind, water, solar, and geothermal can easily replace destructive oil, gas, coal and nuclear, and save planet earth in the process. What's needed is mass global activism to force politicians to do what they never will otherwise.
Fukushima and America's Gulf heighten the urgency. April 20 marked the anniversary of last year's BP initial then larger explosion, igniting Deepwater Horizon's oil drilling platform that burned for more than a day before sinking and releasing thousands of barrels of oil daily into surrounding waters for months. Transocean Ltd. owned and operated the platform under contract to BP Exploration and Production Inc., a division of oil giant BP.
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