There are many red flags in this article. 1. International source without specific citations. 2. Clear ‘pro-coal’ rhetoric 3. It’s almost all rhetoric. If something big happened it would have been easy to find online. Why? Because there are real time monitoring sites that anyone can look at. The government does not move fast enough to take it offline before someone noticed a big blip in that area. And there are many different groups of people who are monitoring these types of sites so they can be a watchdog. If there was a big release it wouldn’t be reported by some international site, using the Russians to report it. Hell, it probably wouldn’t even had hit any international monitoring groups yet. Look how long it took Japan to release data and everyone was watching that happen. http://www.radiationnetwork.com/ Reply
I think this puts it in a little better light: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/06/23/nebraska.flooding/ Apparently the plant in question has been shut down since April for refueling… hardly a disaster scenario. Just some concern about flooding in the area. Clearly the first article was biased, but coming from a Pakistani news-source that is hardly surprising. Reply