But that’s not nuclear so it doesn’t count…

While the media obsessed about a nuclear plant that has killed nobody and is unlikely to:

When the magnitude-9 earthquake hit Japan last Friday week, a dam used for hydroelectric power in the Fukushima district collapsed, obliterating, according to some reports, 1800 homes. It is not known how many people were killed in the torrent, but it is likely to be hundreds at least.

And:

COSMO Oil Co says that a massive blaze at its Chiba refinery outside Tokyo triggered by the March 11 earthquake has finally been extinguished.

Get some perspective people!

Apparently the ABC programme 4 Corners did an excellent job of getting a bunch of uninformed Greenpeace activists together to explain why nuclear power is a really bad thing and how some really bad stuff might happen if things go really badly at the nuclear plant and there's nobody there to control it and stuff.

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