Fukushima: Plan to send residents home 3 years after nuclear accident labelled 'irresponsible'

[DeSwiss]

Source: ABC - 7.30

ABC - 7.30
By North Asia correspondent Matthew Carney
Updated 1 hour 39 minutes ago


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A nuclear industry insider has told the ABC that the situation at the stricken Fukushima reactor is still not under control, three years after the disaster there. Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe has announced he wants 30,000 residents to return to their homes and the reactors to be switched back on within two years.

But a Fukushima insider and two former prime ministers have told the ABC's 7.30 program that such a move would be irresponsible. At the risk of losing his job if his identity is revealed, a man who worked at TEPCO's Fukushima plant for more than 20 years says the situation at the reactor is not under control and no-one knows how to fix the problem. "There are too many systems and they all have problems," he said.

"For example, too many water tanks with too many lines - it's very difficult to operate. It's made worse because all the experienced workers have reached their radiation limits, so TEPCO has to rely on staff that don't know the site and who aren't trained."

The whistleblower says mistakes are made weekly, and contaminated water leaks into the Pacific Ocean every day. "The other day when contaminated water overflowed from a tank, an alarm was ringing but they didn't go and check. I couldn't believe it. It was ringing for nine hours and they thought the alarm was out of order."

Read more: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-03-10/plan-to-send-residents-back-to-fukushima-meets-opposition/5311046

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- So who do you think should get sued for giving people cancer at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020, the Japanese government, the IOC, or both?

[brett_jv]

1. If this whole situation was happening in a country that wasn't 'our friend' ...

I.E. Russia, Syria, Iran, N. Korea, etc ...

Then the story of what's going on there at Fukishima would've NEVER left the mainstream news. We'd all still be hearing daily updates about the situation, still be wringing our hands, calling for 'action', etc.

Instead ... we just fiddle ...

[DeSwiss]

2. Not to mention that these busted reactors....

...are our inventions, our installations and the fact that we've got 17 identical ones running right now in the US. Oh, and did I mention that it is now 17 WIPP workers in Carlsbad, NM who have tested positive for Plutonium and Americium radiation? Even after they assured everyone that everything would be just fine.

- Just like they're telling everyone in Fukushima right now.......




All Levels of Radiation Confirmed to Cause Cancer

[Maynar]

3. Glad I'm old.

Good night, and good luck.

[newfie11]

5. Me too

And I say that often these days

[DeSwiss]

15. I've grandkids who're still very young.

- And they're out of luck, because they'll have to clean up our mess.

[nikto]

4. The Fukushima disaster was made possible by...

The Company that "brings good things to life"...
GE.

[watoos]

6. We can't have any bad pub

after all we're building 2 new reactors in Georgia, with 10 billion dollars in guaranteed loans. Socialize costs - Privatize profits.

[DeSwiss]

16. Yep....

...and they got one of them from a ''Scratch& Dent'' sale.



- So it came ''pre-cracked.''

[Katashi_itto]

7. Interesting. I remember distinctly several individuals stating that they had complete confidence

the crisis was being handled properly.

[Caretha]

8. Well isn't that special

Japan's prime minister Shinzo Abe has announced he wants 30,000 residents to return to their homes and the reactors to be switched back on within two years.

After you Prime Minister - after you.

It's good to know that the US doesn't have a monopoly on idiocy.

[DeSwiss]

17. That was the first thought that came to my mind too.

- So it's true! GREAT minds think alike!

[Octafish]

9. TEPCO Cares.

Not.

"Plutonium is not dangerous."

[Yo_Mama]

10. Tokyo radiation readings are below those in cities such as Paris and NYC

So I don't think there's any reason to fear for the Olympians. But for people who are going to be living a lot closer to Fukushima Daiichi, problems at the site added to pre-existing contamination may be hazardous.

There's no need to obfuscate a reasoned warning with falsehood. This article talks about both the Tokyo situation and the much higher contamination in some Fukushima areas:
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-09/tokyo-radiation-less-than-in-paris-three-years-after-meltdown.html

[DeSwiss]

13. Well Yo Mama....

...it's is obvious that you know nothing about me because obfuscation is the last thing I'm ever accused of. Always quite the opposite.

As for the issue of ''falsehoods'' -- whom you choose to believe is no skin off my nose. So you go right ahead and get yourself a front row seat at the Olympics in Tokyo in 2020. Using the radiation levels in Paris or NYC as some kind of standard is almost farcical. Do you have the cancer rates for those cities too? Anyone who'd believe a source coming from the same capitalist bastards who have so much to gain from nuclear energy's continued use, deserves whatever they get.

- And anyone incredulous enough to believe the stats pushed out by that psychopath Abe and his henchmen in Japan, also deserves exactly what they get. So long.


Tokyo Soil Samples Would Be Considered Nuclear Waste In The US

http://vimeo.com/38995781

All Levels of Radiation Confirmed to Cause Cancer

[jtuck004]

11. In a story abt radiation reaching the West coast, how some are viewing children's sickness...

The headline is: Fukushima Radiation To Reach West Coast Next Month, with more here.

The interesting excerpt...

...
And in case that is not yet clear, here is exhibit A: a Reuters report on Fukushima children that assigns increasingly abnormal pathologies not on the fallout from the Fukushima explosion but, get this, on their staying indoors!
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Some of the smallest children in Koriyama, a short drive from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, barely know what it's like to play outside -- fear of radiation has kept them in doors for much of their short lives. Though the strict safety limits for outdoor activity set after multiple meltdowns at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant in 2011 have now been eased, parental worries and ingrained habit mean many children still stay inside.
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And the impact is now starting to show, with children experiencing falling strength, lack of coordination, some cannot even ride a bicycle, and emotional issues like shorter tempers, officials and educators say.

"There are children who are very fearful. They ask before they eat anything, 'does this have radiation in it?' and we have to tell them it's okay to eat," said Mitsuhiro Hiraguri, director of the Emporium Kindergarten in Koriyama, some 55 km (35 miles) west of the Fukushima nuclear plant. "But some really, really want to play outside. They say they want to play in the sandbox and make mud pies. We have to tell them no, I'm sorry. Play in the sandbox inside instead."

You see, the falling strength, the lack of coordination, and the behavioral changes three years after the explosion, are all due to children not being allowed to play in Fukushima's spilling over radioactive cooling water, where as of a month ago, record amounts of Cesium were recorded. Nothing to do at all with slightly "abnormal" levels of alpha, beta and gamma radiation in the air.
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[quadrature]

12. what rad dose would these people get?...nt

[Brother Buzz]

14. Perhaps Prime Minister Shinzo Abe should set a good example....

and move his residence to Fukushima.