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According to a new report, the Japanese government worked in concert with TEPCO to purposely cover up the meltdown at Fukushima in 2011.
“I would say it was a coverup,” Tokyo Electric Power Company President Naomi Hirose announced during a press conference. “It’s extremely regrettable.”
“Looking at the situation back then, we think it was too difficult for Tepco to use the term meltdown because even the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency couldn’t use it,” because of pressure from the government, Japan Times noted. That agency had been Japan’s nuclear watchdog in March 2011, at the time of the disaster. Notably, five years after the catastrophe, TEPCO revealed the existence of a company manual in which a meltdown is ‘official’ once 5 percent or more fuel rods have suffered damage. But, as Japan Times explained: “As of March 14, 2011, Tepco estimated that 55 percent of the fuel rod assemblies in reactor No. 1 and 25 percent of those in reactor No. 3 were damaged but did not declare they were damaged until May that year.” In euphemizing the meltdown, TEPCO and the Japanese government left countless civilians in peril; despite evacuations, many had been reluctant to leave their homes and might have done so sooner had the full scope of a meltdown been clear. TEPCO remains embroiled in controversy over secrecy and alleged incompetent handling of the cleanup of Fukushima. In February this year, three former TEPCO executives were charged with negligence over the disaster.
We were afraid to use the word "meltdown" boohoo !
originally posted by: Gothmog
a reply to: Onesmartdog
We were afraid to use the word "meltdown" boohoo !
Even though the press all over the world was calling it for what it was ?
originally posted by: EternalShadow
Been saying it for years, and I won't eat a thing out of the Pacific Ocean and haven't since 2011. I really miss seafood... Shame. 😪
Am I crazy about that? I don't think so. It's crazy to me that people are still chomping down shellfish, shrimp, salmon, tuna, etc. etc.... without a care in the world. The cover up is still ongoing and VERY effective.
Well you could get a gieger counter to test for yourself. The US has dumped radioactive stuff for decades in btth the Pacific and Atlantic. I know for sure in the Pacific where Ive fished near the Faralon islands. Its a shame.
originally posted by: EternalShadow
Been saying it for years, and I won't eat a thing out of the Pacific Ocean and haven't since 2011. I really miss seafood... Shame. 😪
Am I crazy about that? I don't think so. It's crazy to me that people are still chomping down shellfish, shrimp, salmon, tuna, etc. etc.... without a care in the world. The cover up is still ongoing and VERY effective.
originally posted by: visitedbythem
Well you could get a gieger counter to test for yourself. The US has dumped radioactive stuff for decades in btth the Pacific and Atlantic. I know for sure in the Pacific where Ive fished near the Faralon islands. Its a shame.
originally posted by: EternalShadow
Been saying it for years, and I won't eat a thing out of the Pacific Ocean and haven't since 2011. I really miss seafood... Shame. 😪
Am I crazy about that? I don't think so. It's crazy to me that people are still chomping down shellfish, shrimp, salmon, tuna, etc. etc.... without a care in the world. The cover up is still ongoing and VERY effective.
You could always eat farm raised shrimp that are fed pig and human fecies, and loaded with loaded with all kinds of stuff you dont even want to think about. Or how about the oil and chemicals in the Baja?
originally posted by: visitedbythem
Well you could get a gieger counter to test for yourself. The US has dumped radioactive stuff for decades in btth the Pacific and Atlantic. I know for sure in the Pacific where Ive fished near the Faralon islands. Its a shame.
originally posted by: EternalShadow
Been saying it for years, and I won't eat a thing out of the Pacific Ocean and haven't since 2011. I really miss seafood... Shame. 😪
Am I crazy about that? I don't think so. It's crazy to me that people are still chomping down shellfish, shrimp, salmon, tuna, etc. etc.... without a care in the world. The cover up is still ongoing and VERY effective.
You could always eat farm raised shrimp that are fed pig and human fecies, and loaded with loaded with all kinds of stuff you dont even want to think about. Or how about the oil and chemicals in the Baja?
originally posted by: Onesmartdog
originally posted by: visitedbythem
Well you could get a gieger counter to test for yourself. The US has dumped radioactive stuff for decades in btth the Pacific and Atlantic. I know for sure in the Pacific where Ive fished near the Faralon islands. Its a shame.
originally posted by: EternalShadow
Been saying it for years, and I won't eat a thing out of the Pacific Ocean and haven't since 2011. I really miss seafood... Shame. 😪
Am I crazy about that? I don't think so. It's crazy to me that people are still chomping down shellfish, shrimp, salmon, tuna, etc. etc.... without a care in the world. The cover up is still ongoing and VERY effective.
You could always eat farm raised shrimp that are fed pig and human fecies, and loaded with loaded with all kinds of stuff you dont even want to think about. Or how about the oil and chemicals in the Baja?
Or the gulf, but we are straying a bit off topic, eh?