You turn to us for voices you won't hear anywhere else.

Sign up for Democracy Now!'s Daily Digest to get our latest headlines and stories delivered to your inbox every day.

Work of activists helped prevent Fukushima-style cluster of nuclear reactors on Long Island

Web ExclusiveMarch 16, 2011
Related

    By Juan Gonzalez
    New York Daily News

    The explosions and fires at four separate nuclear reactors in Fukushima, Japan, are a haunting reminder that nuclear power can produce catastrophic results.

    The 50 courageous workers who remained at Japan’s contaminated Daiichi nuclear complex had to abandon the facility Tuesday night when surging radiation levels made it too dangerous to stay.

    They had risked almost certain health damage from radiation as they desperately tried to feed in enough cool water to prevent a total meltdown that could release massive amounts of radiation.

    This was the nightmare scenario the nuclear power industry assured us would never happen.

    Karl Grossman, a SUNY Old Westbury journalism professor and author of several books on the nuclear industry, recalls such assurances going back to the 1960s. That was when New York’s own power companies started planning a Fukushima-style cluster of nuclear reactors on Long Island.

    Read the entire column

    Related Story

    StoryMar 14, 2024Mehdi Hasan on Genocide in Gaza, the Silencing of Palestinian Voices in U.S. Media & Why He Left MSNBC
    The original content of this program is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. Please attribute legal copies of this work to democracynow.org. Some of the work(s) that this program incorporates, however, may be separately licensed. For further information or additional permissions, contact us.

    Non-commercial news needs your support

    We rely on contributions from our viewers and listeners to do our work.
    Please do your part today.
    Make a donation
    Top