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biffvernon · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 18546 Location: Lincolnshire

It is curious how little attention is being given to nuclear power and Fukushima in the UK media - not a mention in Saturday's Guardian or Sunday's Observer. If you search on #Fukushima in twitter you get lots of tweets in Japanese, obviously, but then the rest, instead of being totally dominated by English language tweets, have a lot in German, French and Spanish. I've not actually counted a sample but my gut feeling is that there is a lot more interest in the subject outside the English-speaking world than is usual for twitter.

The pro-nuclear people here will doubtless find Chris Busby's latest interview amusing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-3Kf4JakWI&feature=channel_video_title
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An Inspector Calls · Banned Joined: 27 Jan 2011 Posts: 961

We all think you're doing more than enough

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DominicJ · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 4387 Location: NW UK

Biff
The MSM have ignored it, because its no longer new, and their screams that its the end of the world will not sell any papers.
The hysterical blogosphere is bored of it for much the same reason.
The high end blogosphere has dismissed it as technologicaly irrelevent in its entirety and political irrelevent for now.

Which leaves you, who will continue to scream its the end of the world and hundreds of billions of people have already turned into radiaoactive canibals long after the incident is entirely forgotten.

Deaths from inadequate nuclear safety measures, none.
Deaths from inadequate earthquake and tsunami defences, 14,416

Face it biff, even if the relativly minor nuclear incident hadnt occured, these people would still be protesting, based on what could have occured. In reality of course, they are protesting on their own entirely inaccurate understanding of what did occur.
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biffvernon · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 18546 Location: Lincolnshire

Oh there's lots out there if one searches, just not much from the BBC and the UK daily newspapers. Part of the problem is the poor and limited information that TEPCO and the Japanese government are supplying. But that should be a news story in itself.
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DominicJ · Joined: 18 Nov 2008 Posts: 4387 Location: NW UK

The Grauniad - Where investigative journalism is publishing press releases from our mates.
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Martinez · Joined: 12 Dec 2011 Posts: 3

“This movement is the indignation of people who are aware of the dangers of nuclear and who reject politics geared only toward the profit of certain businesses,” said a 60-year-old activist, who did not want to give his name.