Strong quake and tsunami hits Japan

[Logan Darklighter]

However, of much more concern to me, I fear this will be used to further vilify and pretty much completely kill off what little support nuclear power plants still had here and abroad

Well, that's all ready happening. Down here our 'green party', The Australian Greens' leadership have used the situation in Japan for a reason why they won't support a local nuke reactor - amongst a lot of things they won't support or wish to inflict upon us.

The way the US press is obsessing over this and sensationalizing it as if it's about to blow Chernobyl-style is really starting to piss me off. Just last night I saw one "concerned environmentalist" talking heads opining that there was more nuclear fuel in those reactors than many many Hiroshima bombs. (I think he used the term 1000 Hiroshimas, I can't be sure though)

*FACEPALM* Of COURSE there is you MORON! But you're focusing on the WRONG THING!!! There's more fuel inside ANY nuclear reactor than inside any single nuclear bomb! It's the TYPE of fuel used and the WAY it's used that's important! Bastard is acting as if he thinks a nuclear power plant can BLOW UP like a nuclear bomb! 

Or purposefully trying to give that impression in order to frighten the uneducated, which is far more likely. And far more reprehensible. And the gormless git of a presenter on the news is just just nodding and taking the bastard SERIOUSLY. 

(Stopping here. I've got an entire rant on the way the environmentalists purposely vilify Nuclear power. But I don't want to derail this off into the politics thread.)