15-03-2011, 03:41 PM
I don't think the politics of this should go unmentioned.
The US had a military government in Japan post-WWII. They installed submarine nuclear reactors in public facilities which were not the best design for that particular type of usage. Japanese culture was a military government, rules-obeying type where such designs wouldn't be questioned. US private corporation contractors sought foreign markets without any US level regulation.
Recipe = Giant Japanese Chernobyl possibly X 4...
In short American arrogance is blowing back on it in the form of nuclear fallout and world environmental disaster. Here is the real invisible hand of the free market doing its magic - only backhand style.
The US had a military government in Japan post-WWII. They installed submarine nuclear reactors in public facilities which were not the best design for that particular type of usage. Japanese culture was a military government, rules-obeying type where such designs wouldn't be questioned. US private corporation contractors sought foreign markets without any US level regulation.
Recipe = Giant Japanese Chernobyl possibly X 4...
In short American arrogance is blowing back on it in the form of nuclear fallout and world environmental disaster. Here is the real invisible hand of the free market doing its magic - only backhand style.