Trivializing Fukushima

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7. ''We never meant to conceal the information, but it never occurred to us to make it public.''

I've heard people -- children and adults -- say, "It must be true, if it was on television." And that makes me barf.

Corporate McPravda Represents One of Our Biggest Problems

A blast from the recent past: An example of just how lowly the world's corporate elite consider the 99-percent...

NUCLEAR CRISIS: HOW IT HAPPENED

Government radiation data disclosure--too little, too late

The Yomiuri Shimbun
June 11, 2011

EXCERPT...

At 8:39 a.m. on March 12, about 18 hours after the earthquake, radioactive tellurium-132 was detected in Namiemachi, Fukushima Prefecture, six kilometers from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s damaged plant, according to the report from the agency.

The detection of Te-132 meant the temperature of nuclear fuel at the plant had shot up to more than 1,000 C. It also meant nuclear fuel pellets in the reactor cores had been damaged and nuclear material had leaked into the environment.

Seven hours later, a massive hydrogen explosion rocked the plant's No. 1 reactor.

Attempting to explain the delay in making the information public, agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama said later, "We never meant to conceal the information, but it never occurred to us to make it public."

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http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110610005496.htm

Thank you, closeupready, for understanding the major stuff we are in.