{"id":9158,"date":"2011-03-12T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T09:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=9158"},"modified":"2011-03-14T15:30:28","modified_gmt":"2011-03-14T13:30:28","slug":"this-is-not-just-nuclear-melt-down-its-the-next-world-financial-crisis-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/12\/this-is-not-just-nuclear-melt-down-its-the-next-world-financial-crisis-too\/","title":{"rendered":"This is not just nuclear melt down &#8211; it&#8217;s the next world financial crisis too"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A nuclear power plant in Japan is failing - <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-pacific-12720219\">part has already exploded<\/a>. The melt down of the core is being discussed.<\/p>\n<p>It's been my nightmare since realising the folly of Sizewell and nuclear power as a teenager living in Suffolk.<\/p>\n<p>If that melt down happens - and I sincerely hope it does not -  then we're not just heading for one of the biggest ecological disasters in human history. We're also heading for a massive humanitarian disaster. And if Tokyo is as disrupted as I fear - it being only 200 miles or so a way, we face potential global financial melt down.<\/p>\n<p>If there is no one to deal wih the counter party to debts in a global financial system it stops. Banks can't work through that.<\/p>\n<p>Don't think nuclear melt down in Japan is some minor issue.<\/p>\n<p>It's massive. For the world.<\/p>\n<p>I am very, very worried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A nuclear power plant in Japan is failing &#8211; part has already exploded. The melt down of the core is being discussed. It&#8217;s been my<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2011\/03\/12\/this-is-not-just-nuclear-melt-down-its-the-next-world-financial-crisis-too\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}