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chervilant

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5. Anti-nuke Activists
Sat May 5, 2012, 10:31 AM
May 2012

have been addressing this issue for decades. The Pro-Nuke cabal has routinely hidden the high costs of storing nuclear waste (AND, the fact that they haven't developed adequate technology to 'dispose of' nuclear waste). They won't even TOUCH the topic of how dangerous is all that 'spent' fuel!

This excerpt from the article encapsulates what we'll likely witness:

An even more catastrophic worst-case scenario follows that a fire in the pool at unit 4 could then spread, igniting the irradiated fuel throughout the nuclear site and releasing an amount of cesium-137 equaling a doomsday-like load, roughly 85 times more than the release at Chernobyl.

It's a scenario that would literally threaten Japan's annihilation and civilization at large, with widespread worldwide environmental radioactive contamination.

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