Before we bag on the plant for "Not having contingencies" please remember that TENS OF THOUSANDS of Japanese are dead and hundreds of miles of coastline are trashed from the largest earthquake in recent history followed by the most devastating tsunami in recent history.
And yet, despite all that still going on...
One fucking leaking plant gets the headlines?
People have absolutely no sense of scale or math or science or relative comparisons.
Thank God I wasn't born a moron.
BTW - the area around Chernobyl? Nature is doing GREAT. Plants and animals are living their normal generational life cycles with no measurable effects. By all measures (taken by the governing bodies set up to monitor the area) nature just didnt give a damn about the Chernobyl incident. No zombies, no 6 legged bears, no two headed fish.
Want to create a nature preserve? Meltdown a reactor.
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No wait, let me put in in layman's terms:
ZOMG NUCULAR!!!!