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[novapsyche]

Last summer, for a short, intense while, I reviewed information about Chernobyl. It was in living memory, technically, but I was a bit young (in terms of political awareness) when that occurred.

What is being said now about Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant sounds like the ghost of Chernobyl just woke up. I swear, some of the same phrasing is being used.

(It goes without saying that the victims of the earthquake & tsunami are the prime concern. It's just that this particular story within the story resonates because of my recent research.)

Edit: Stuck watching CNN's coverage, I was astonished when the anchors cut away from the press conference where one of the engineers stated that venting was indeed still going on. The two smiled into the camera, saying that cooling with sea water & venting were ongoing with a reassuring tone. Yet at Three Mile Island, direct venting was a controversial move.

Then the anchors touted that Bill Nye would be on to describe what was going on, but when he started saying something about cesium being released in the initial explosion & began laying things out so that a lay audience might understand, the anchors interrupted him for "breaking news" of a helicopter in midair, supposedly rescuing someone but not visibly. A lame back & forth with their correspondent on the ground ensued. They never returned to Nye. To their credit, they did return to Nye, who helped elucidate the basics. Yet when he & another analyst started conversing about hypotheticals--simple hypotheticals--the anchors intervened. *sigh*