Nicole Polozzi, as "Snooki"
Are there differences between Fukushima Dai-ichi and Chernobyl?
And is Fukushima worse than Chernobyl?
A teenager might say “Du-uh!”
My friends from Brooklyn might ask “Is the Pope Catholic?”
Even “Snooki” and “The Situation” might ask “Are you stoopid or what?”
But the people at CNN, ProPublica and the NY Times are asking nuclear power industry experts. That’s like asking Charlie Sheen if cocaine is bad, or asking Lindsay Lohan if she really stole that necklace. They should be asking people like Amory Lovins at the Rocky Mountain Institute, Roger Saillant at Case Western’s Fowler Center for Sustainable Value, Jeremy Grantham at GMO, Cary Krosinsky at Columbia University CERC, anyone connected with academic programs in Sustainability, such as at Marlboro College, the Presidio, Bainbridge, ecological economics, systems dynamics, etc.
So for the record – here are six real differences (as opposed to the nonsense at Pro Publica here and here) and two major points of congruence.