Video by David Corrigan | Voice of Stephanie Salazar
It was a timely talk at NELHA in Kona, when an expert in nuclear energy discussed what appears to be going on at the ailing Fukushima Daiishi nuclear plant in Japan.
John Deveau, a Navy veteran who worked for decades in the nuclear energy industry, is well versed in emergency operating procedures, and last Saturday he shed some light on the desperate efforts to prevent a meltdown in Japan.
Deveau explained what he knew – by the book – but reminded the audience that all the details are not known. He said operators probably had little choice but to vent radioactivity in light of the dire situation.
He also assured those in attendance that the radiation that has escaped is not a threat to Hawaii residents.
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Thank you for you estimation and it is only that. The total radiation load in the biosphere will increase and it will bio-concentrate in tissues of plants and animals. Sadly there is no way to fully account for the effects. The absence of knowledge is no safeguard. Agreed the levels now in aggregate are extremely low, yet in narrow sectors they are anything but low. Is this an allowable sacrifice for the whole?
The nuclear energy option is a vast complex Faustian Bargain the systemic effects on the long term we are completely ignorant.
The question is only an ethical one, engineering has no ethics.