"Time for the Rich to Leave Tokyo" (Japan has 55 reactors)

[ensho]

http://counterpunch.com/wilcox04132011.html


Earthquake and Nuke Fatigue



It appears there is a cover-up as to the severity of the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster. We in Japan are being told by the government that there is a plan to monitor food safety to ensure the public will not be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Yet some experts dispute whether there is any such thing as a "safe dose." Further, the government is not honestly telling the public the extent of the problem or how they propose to resolve it (see this rolling update from a resident living near the Fukushima plant: http://candobetter.net/node/2428 ).

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Having been an inhabitant of Tokyo, Japan for twenty years I can say that things are now very different in the world's most densely populated city.

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That said, the chickens came home to roost when it was discovered that the electrical power industry falsified documents, cut corners and participated in political corruption to fulfill their dream of an endless supply of "safe and clean" energy. Japan has received about 30% of its electricity from its 55 reactors.

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On April 1st (and this is no fool's joke), 16 Japanese experts on nuclear power engineering, nuclear physics and radiology issued a frightening statement, saying that they "do not rule out the possibility that as time goes on, a molten core melts a weak part of a pressure vessel and enters a containment vessel, destroying the reactor's function to contain radioactive substances, or that hydrogen gas forming inside a pressure vessel explodes and destroys a containment vessel, causing serious radioactive contamination over a large expanse of land and sea....the current makeshift efforts to cool the No. 1, 2 and 3 reactors will not be able to completely cool down molten nuclear fuel so as it will not burst through the bottom of pressure vessels."

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also in the article was this awful info: It has been long been rumored that the Japanese nuke industry uses homeless and other desperate workers to carry out dangerous cleaning operations in their aging reactors.

and that radiation and geiger counters have become a way of life

[ensho]

1. its kind of like a payback

we nuked them during WWII and now they are nuking the world

or what goes around, comes around

[snagglepuss]

7. Oh really? If you want to think of karma why not consider the millions

Chinese, Koreans, Filipinos, Malay, etc the Japanese slaughtered? Perhaps its payback for the Japanese. Perhaps its payback for slaughtering dolpins and whales? The whole theory of karma sucks.

[flamingdem]

2. Arnie Gundersen RT 4/12 Fear that fuel pools with plutonium will catch fire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pbje3ub5Dio&feature=player_embedded

[Demeter]

3. the Rich Started Leaving Weeks Ago

who else is setting off those geiger counters at airports?

[Octafish]

4. There's that tune again.

...the electrical power industry falsified documents, cut corners and participated in political corruption...

Thank you for a must-read article, ensho.

[flamingdem]

5. Japanese government spokesmen admitted Fukushima area will be uninhabitable for 10+ years

but don't worry nukes are safe and cost effective! No matter that the area is Japan's breadbasket and the seas are critical to fish supplies.

[virgogal]

6. I assume he means cesium-137 has a 30 year half life,although

the word "year" was left out.

Frightening since fish is such a big part of the Japanese diet.