THE LEGACY OF FUKUSHIMA

This new critical analysis by Rupert Wingfield-Hayes exposes the devastating legacy of Fukushima, sounding a dire warning about the future of nuclear power.
 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-24332012

His visit to a small town 5 miles from Fukushima is a poignant reminder of the human cost of the disaster. All the inhabitants have gone, still refugees two and a half years after the tsunami which wrecked the nuclear reactors at Fukushima. There is a huge task removing radioactive contaminated topsoil and trees within a 20 mile radius of  ground zero. Where do you put it all?  For how many hundreds of years?

Professor Kurokawa comments: 'Many senior bureaucrats from Japan's Nuclear Industry Safety Agency would take lucrative jobs in the nuclear industry after leaving government'.

Could it happen again?  Wingfield-Hayes concludes that if the complacency prior to the disaster could  happen in Japan, it can almost certainly happen elsewhere. The myth that it is safe has gone.