Leaking Radiation

A rare Western newspaper article on the leaking Japanese nuclear reactors.


1 of Japan’s damaged reactors has high radiation, no water, renewing doubts about stability

One of Japan’s crippled nuclear reactors still has fatally high radiation levels and hardly any water to cool it, according to an internal examination Tuesday that renews doubts about the plant’s stability.

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The probe also found the containment vessel — a beaker-shaped container enclosing the core — had cooling water up to only 60 centimeters (2 feet) from the bottom, far below the 10 meters (yards) estimated when the government declared the plant stable in December.

Finding the water level was important to help locate damaged areas where radioactive water is escaping. ...

Fix The System

When systems are failing, it may become necessary to exacerbate the failures in order to fix the system.  Many parts of the criminal justice system are failing.

Go to Trial

... More than 90 percent of criminal cases are never tried before a jury. Most people charged with crimes forfeit their constitutional rights and plead guilty.

 “The truth is that government officials have deliberately engineered the system to assure that the jury trial system established by the Constitution is seldom used,” said Timothy Lynch, director of the criminal justice project at the libertarian Cato Institute. In other words: the system is rigged. ...

TSA Full Body Scanners Are A Failure

Israel knew the full body scanners were useless.  TSA implemented the scanners at great profit to the scanner manufacturers.