Since 1945

Japan has been nuclear since 1945. Of course their introduction to the power of nuclear energy came rather suddenly and without warning.

The 55 nuclear power plants, that generate 35% of their energy needs, have been built with the full approval of the Japanese government.

The photograph above shows the Islands of Japan. What it doesn't show is the actual mountain range that exists under the ocean.

Japan is the visible part of an active volcanic mountain range.

I think it takes a huge portion of radioactive gonads to build 55 nuclear power plants on land that can routinely receive earthquakes and eruptions.....which is the natural byproduct of being an active volcanic mountain range.

It's really not the mountain range's fault. They are just trying to grow and become larger mountains.

I'm not sure if it's weirder to build nuclear reactors on the side of a volcano or to think that world dominance should be their birth right.

The Japanese really have some amazing inflated ego stories over the last 400 years.

They must have read all the press clippings from Great Britain's historical attempt to own the world.

LIEF.........LITTLE ISLAND EGO FEVER

I suppose I understand the conquering concept when your personal land mass is an island, and you feel the need to acquire more land. So in that respect the colonization concept makes much more sense than building nuclear reactors on the top of volcano's.

8.9

OMG......that's big.

Let's just hold our breath until we get a full report on how those reactors responded to one of the largest earthquakes ever recorded.

They do build good cars (most of the time) so maybe their construction can withstand massive vibrations caused by mountain growing burps.

Maybe is the key word in that sentence....but the other sentence that always seems to pop up....might be more apropos.

THERE'S NEVER A PROBLEM UNTIL THERE'S A PROBLEM.

8.9 in the Ring of Fire.

yikes....

Michael Timothy McAlevey