Our prayers go out to those in danger… But a little foresight would have helped! [Nuclear industry at a standstill: this could be the end «The nuclear renaissance was on the rocks in any case,» said Peter Bradford, a former commissioner on the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. He served on the commission in 1979 during the Three Mile Island accident in the US state of Pennsylvania. (Reuters Life!) – The nuclear safety crisis entering its third week in Japan was not exactly the disaster that long-term activist and author Takashi Hirose foresaw in his book last summer, «Nuclear Reactor Time Bomb». But except for the location — Hirose had predicted an imminent megaquake and nuclear accident at the Hamaoka plant 200 km southwest of Tokyo, not the Fukushima Daiichi plant 240 km northeast — the scenario depicted in his first book on nuclear power in 15 years has proved eerily prescient. Japanese authorities evacuated workers on Sunday from a reactor building they were working in after high doses of radiation were detected at a crippled nuclear power plant. As Hirose watches what he believes is a bungled response by the government and Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) , which runs the plant, his fears are as strong as ever that a repeat is set to hit on the other side of the Japanese capital. «I think it will definitely occur soon,» he said, citing geological research on earthquake cycles suggesting that a massive quake may be imminent in the Tokai region near the Hamaoka …
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