Quote Originally Posted by FischOderAal View Post
Our government depends on the consent of the operators to turn them off. They should've never extended the life of those nuclear power plants in the first place... But hey, we don't have enough energy and energy would be more expensive if we had not done that ... NOT. Energy from coal plants is cheaper and would be way more cheaper if the operators had to insure the nuclear power plants correctly and had to pay for the final disposal of the nuclear waste. Instead, they let the people pay that and subsidize nuclear power this way. Germany produces way more energy than it needs, even when those eight old power plants are taken off the grid. What our gov is doing now is pure actionism in fear of the coming elections. The next election will be in Baden Württemberg and their top dog there is know to be a fan of nuclear power. They fear losing the elections in BaWü, that's all. They don't care about the life of us dirty peasants.

All the CDU/CSU and FDP does is for the good of the shareholders and companies. Yesterday they said that security now has priority over econimical reasons. Wait? Security wasn't more important than the money purse of the big companies before the Fukushima accident? Hypocrites.
True, but hey they are doing at least this... nobody else is doing anything at all so far... the arrogance and stubbornness is amazing... nobody wants to accept that this COULD happen in their country as well...

Quote Originally Posted by Mechanical Man View Post
If it gets this chaotic situation on statements and news in to check, I don't see that as bad thing. It will ensure that data goes to who needs it most first. There is too much sensationalist journalists boosting their readings with at worst fully untrue news and even in most cases with full of mistakes.
Well, why is this happening to begin with?
If the gov would have held regularly press conferences telling people what's going on, nobody would pay attention to random blogs and rumors...
Censoring all communication only makes things worse imo...
It won't stop blogs and rumors, it'll result in even less reliable news getting out and more rumor spreading...

And Tokyo being safe even in a worst case scenario... sorry I don't buy that...