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All our nationals especially eastern people are suffered from more or less radiation People can't think logical matters properly once their brains are affected by radiation We call it radioactive brains Radiation, or stress hormones from all the stuff on the news and the hardships needed to save electricity... or the way electricity has to be generated when nuclear power isn't available? It's estimated that several hundred people died as a result of the Three Mile Island meltdown. Radiation didn't hurt anybody. What hurt them was all the additional coal that was burned, leading to worse air pollution. Japan is burning a lot more fossil fuel and spending a lot of money to get it. That has to hurt. delete replyengineerpoet wrote today at 12:17 PM robi2106 said I still don't understand Japan's efforts to ditch nuclear power. I found a news item which mentioned that Japan's oil imports had jumped by about 113,000 barrels per day to feed thermal powerplants (I'm sure it's greater now). That would cost about $11 million per day ($4 billion per year), plus extra imports of coal and LNG and the cost and discomfort of conservation measures. Next Big Future had a post recently about a couple of plants which had passed their checkouts and were ready for restart, waiting only for approval of the prefecture. If the plants are not owned by TEPCO, I'm not sure why they haven't been given the go-ahead yet; it appears that all of them are being made to pay for TEPCO's sins, and Japan as a whole.