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So, the reactor will most likely be safely contained for maybe 100 years and the situation monitored during that period. Things will not get worse in the surrounding area - they will very likely get better and very likely get a lot better as the fission products that are the main problem simply...

Probably not. Radio isotopes have the interesting physical property of possessing a half-life. This means that Iodine-131 (the cause of the major public health effect of Chernobyl - Thyroid cancer) has for all practical purposes completely gone. Cesium 137 is probably the next most important...

Typical Kospi liquidity:

There is listing of many products and exchanges here: http://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/p.php?f=products Click on futures and Asia to see the Asian exchange trading hours. The Kospi (Sth Korea) is also very liquid. It can have slow days, but volatility is usually quite reasonable.

And you have based your assessment on detailed survey data? I thought not, because as far as I am aware there isn't any publicly available. I have been keeping an eye on the reported radiation measurements almost since the start of the Fukushima incident and it has been clear for some time...

The public health consequences rule: Do not start a coal fired power station until you can guarantee that it will not contribute to the 20,000 deaths from coal burning every year in the US and at least hundreds of thousands world wide. The environmental consequences rule: Do not start a coal...

Who appointed you as the realist? I'll tell you what is sick and twisted and that is spreading ill informed exaggerated bullshit. As a consequence, we see that people won't for example travel to Tokyo due to fear that has no rational basis. The radiation level in Tokyo is less than the...

Which Japanese people? All of them? There have been evacuations from the 20km since just after the start of nuclear emergency. The government has announced further evacuations from the area north west of the plant that is the most heavily contaminated to take place over the next month. Quite...

If you would read your own reference you would find that the amount of radiation release is estimated to be 10% of that at Chernobyl. Just because it is INES 7 doesn't make it as bad as Chernoby and neither does it mean that matters suddenly have worsened. At Chernobyl the whole reactor core...

One word "shielding". How do you think space based electronics survive the radiation bath?

I doubt that finding workers would be the problem, but I agree that reactors 7 and 8 may not be built. Reactors 1-4 will certainly never operate again, and most likely 5 and 6 will never be restarted. The site conditions are atrocious and that alone would preclude their restart for quite a long...

futuman, There is a list of new nuclear reactors under construction and scheduled to come on line in the next few years here: http://www.world-nuclear.org/info/inf17.html Of course it is not enough. And neither is the build of renewables. In all likelihood both will be needed. As for...

That is completely irrational. The radiation level in Tokyo is less than the average natural background radiation in Europe and the US. See my post here: http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=3149621#post3149621 There is no radiation catastrophe in Tokyo, nor anything like...

It's really quite amazing how the anti-nukes have degenerated into name calling. Anything they don't like to hear instantly becomes "propaganda", the World Heath Organization has suddenly become a public relations arm of the nuclear industry because it's assessment of the Chernobyl disaster was...

That's about the size of it, but those blackouts will come in a world substantially hotter from global warming. Not a good combination at all. Lessons will be learned from the Fukushima accident and more nuclear power stations will be built after some delay. By the end of this decade it will...

It's got nothing to do with religion - it's got to do with the science and a rational approach to risk. Nuclear power remains one of the safest forms of electricity generation - far safer than coal, safer than nat gas, safer than hydro. Here is what I mean by rational approach to risk...

If you believe that "no level of radiation is safe", you would never have a dental or other x-ray, allow smoke alarms in your home etc etc. In the case of smoke alarms, the risk from radiation is far less than the risk of being burned to death in a fire - which is why any rational person...

Don't fret too much about it. Here is the trend in radiation readings for Ibaraki Prefecture (right next door to Fukushima). The highest reading is now about twice European background levels - and still lower than many places on earth which have higher background levels but no demonstrable...

IAEA reports very little contamination of Japanese food found in testing: "Since our written briefing of 1 April 2011, significant data related to food contamination was reported on 1 April (33 samples), 2 April (64 samples) and 3 April (37 samples) by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour...

Probably not. But lets not allow the opinions of radiation health experts stand in the way of hysteria. http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/video/japan-nuke-crisis-american-dead-zone-13254192?tab=9482931&section=1206828