Popular Science Article – Deconstructing a Pro-Nuke PR Campaign

1 03 2016

ITEM: Horse-sh-t from Popular Science
Fukushima: Five Years Later
Japan is still cleaning up one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. Here’s how far it has come—and how far it has yet to go.

By Steve Featherstone –  February 23, 2016
http://www.popsci.com/fukushima-five-years-later

We came across this nuke propaganda item thanks to Jay “Tweety” Cullen

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Why Popular Science magazine promotes nukes – Our New INFO-GRAPHIC:

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Popular Science just did a puff piece on TEPCO’s post disaster actions at Fukushima including the lie that they have cleaned anything up.

Let’s look at why they would approach 3 or 4 meltdowns raging out of control for 5 years with no end in site as a contained non-event.
The author seems to be a regular writer (not a PR guy from the nuke industry).
So … hmmmm … who owns Popular Science?

BLAM … why it’s run by Sweden’s big media monopoly, Bonnier AB.

That’s in Sweden … the little place with no local fuel source and so in love with nuclear energy it has 10 nuke plants!

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