Plutonium from Fukushima is a global catastrophe.

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94. It's a disaster on a planetary scale and yet Corporate Media pretend it isn't.

Going by their utter disregard for the gravity of the situation and intolerance for any opinion other their own, those who say there's nothing to worry about either are personally misguided or acting to intentionally misguide others.

Top Lies from TEPCO? Sounds like BP.

When industry lying is the norm, concern about nuclear energy is not hysteria. It’s a fight for our lives.

Lynn Parramore
Roosevelt Institute

Like British Petroleum, the Tokyo Electric Power Company has a history of playing fast and loose with the truth and endangering lives. So let’s drop the “What, Me Worry?” routine about nuclear energy. When cover-ups and preparing falsified records are part of the corporate culture, we’re not just getting hysterical, as some blindly pro-nuclear power folks would have it.

We’re getting real.

The horrible disaster we saw in the Gulf showed us plenty about what happens when industry and regulatory entities get too cozy and companies like BP are left to self-report on safety and are then actually trusted — by people as high up as the president of the United States — when they do. People die. Our natural world is polluted.

Admittedly there are no means of producing energy that are entirely without risk. Birds do get caught in windmills. But when something goes wrong at a nuclear facility, ENTIRE CITIES CAN BE WIPED OUT. So while nuclear hawks blithely tell us that smart companies and their engineers will take care of making nuclear energy safe and sound, let’s remind them of the actual record.

For example, here’s a little line-up of TEPCO lies:

* In 2002, Michael Zilenzieger reported that top officals TEPCO were forced to resign “after admitting that the company had covered up safety violations and falsified records at three of its largest nuclear power plants”.

* In 2006, the government demanded that TEPCO “check past data after it reported that it had found falsification of coolant water temperatures at its Fukushima Daiichi plant in 1985 and 1988, and that the tweaked data was used in mandatory inspections at the plant, which were completed in October 2005.”

* And in 2007, TEPCO reported that it “had found more past data falsifications, though this time it did not have to close any of its plants.”

Then there were some minor matters of building on fault lines that they claim not to have known about and releasing radiation into the atmosphere. And so on.

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http://www.rooseveltinstitute.org/new-roosevelt/top-lies-tepco-sound-bp

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