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I'll be watching CNN on November 7th.
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I wanted to share this article on the continuing mismanagement of the clean-up at Fukushima Daichi.
This is a piece primarily about the morale and state of the worker's doing the clean-up and how badly it is deteriorating. But it's the economics of the situation that seems to be causing the majority of their 'problems'.
For the company, Tepco, it's all about 'shareholder value'. You would think that a company concerned with 'shareholder value' wouldn't go into a business where 'mistakes' and 'accidents' are UN-INSURABLE! It's economic insanity. But we live in an insane world, where magical thinking rules.
Commenting on the latest leak, the head of Japan’s nuclear regulator Tanaka Shunichi, told reporters: "Mistakes are often linked to morale. People usually don't make silly, careless mistakes when they’re motivated and working in a positive environment. The lack of it, I think, may be related to the recent problems."
If it seems odd that the utility is running out of cash to clean up from the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, that’s because it is, says Watanabe. “Every penny the company spends in Fukushima is a loss. So the mentality is to save as much as possible, not to ensure good conditions and safety for workers.”
As Tepco cut costs and attempted to calm public anger over its handling of the crisis, it imposed a 20 percent pay cut for all employees in 2011. From a total workforce of 37,000, 1,286 people left the firm between April 2011 and June this year. Tepco did not hire any employees in fiscal 2012 and 2013.
The longer decommissioning continues, the harder it will become to find enough people with specialist knowledge to see it through, says Naka Yukiteru, a former General Electric employee who helped build some of Fukushima Daiichi’s reactors. “There aren’t enough trained people at Fukushima Daiichi, even now,” he says. “For Tepco, money is the top priority – nuclear technology and safety comes second and third. That is why the accident happened. The management insists on keeping the company going. They think about shareholders, bank lenders and the government, not the people of Fukushima.
Or, I will add, the people and bioshere of the world.
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I think we forget what is at stake here.
What is at stake is the face and honour of the japanese.
....and for this they are willing to die, just as in the past and just like religious fanatics. Banzai was what they shouted as they dived down on allied shipping in the comic books I read as a kid and so I guess this means something like 'glory'.
I have come to the conclusion that cultures are so different that we all find it very difficult to understand the mentality of other countries peoples and so what hope have we where aliens are concerned who do not even come from our planet.
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In the huge Fukushima thread, we speculated that the thing they are hiding which can never be disclosed is an underground weapons factory and facility beneath Fukushima and the cooling water in the first few months was basically filling up the underground tunnel systems which run miles under the sea. When the underground tunnel systems was full, the ground became waterlogged and unstable and there was no more room to store water - hence the external water tanks, and now they are dumping it into the sea in increasing amounts.
I think there is probably a great deal of highly radioactive water in these tunnels and possibly this is the reason they found high radiation readings off the coast due to a breach in this tunnel system.
In the early days, there was a couple of large barges which were brought in by the US navy and there were some large pieces of equipment shipped out under white tarpaulins. These barges were NOT the water barges but other ones. So, from this, we have to assume the US are in complete agreement with all of this and may well be helping to run the show.
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If this speculation is correct, there will never be any help allowed from outside Japan, and so the disaster will never end because the Japanese and the USA governments do not want the world to find out what has been going on.
Ding, Ding, Ding - Really Bad