Published: May 11th, 2012 at 1:24 pm ET
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Doomsday scenarios spread about No. 4 reactor at Fukushima plant
Shukan Asahi Weekly Magazine (via AJW by The Asahi Shimbun)
By HIDEO SATO
May 10, 2012
Doomsday scenarios spread about No. 4 reactor at Fukushima plant
[...] In the United States, plans have been devised to set up a neutral and independent evaluation committee consisting of experts from around the world to look into the situation at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant and consider ways to resolve the problems there. Such moves show that many feel TEPCO and the Japanese government can no longer be depended upon to deal with the accident.
“Since TEPCO is, after all, a for-profit company, it cannot be said to be making every possible effort,” [Ambassador] Murata said. “There is no time to waste. Knowledge from around the world should be gathered as soon as possible to begin the work of removing the nuclear fuel from the storage pool.” [...]
Published: May 11th, 2012 at 1:24 pm ET
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"There is no time to waste"? So you will set up a committee to study the issue over a year after the explosions? Since we know that committees work so quickly…
Sometimes I think that they know that there are only 136 of us listening, and they are entertaining themselves by pulling our legs, "Now let's tell them…" "Wait, I got one that will drive them crazy…" "What if we say…ha, ha"
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NoNukes – I'm with you on the time frame issue. This committee announcement may be in response to Senator Wyden's call for an international response for action at Fukushima which he made 2 or 3 weeks ago. The governments and industries involved do seem to be moving at a "deliberate" pace although this is a step in the right direction. Still keeping fingers and toes crossed.
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This should put the wind up them NoNukes!!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/11/italian-anarchists-kneecap-nuclear-executive
I wonder if admin could post this one???
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goathead, great find! Snip:
"An anarchist group claimed responsibility on Friday for kneecapping an Italian nuclear engineering executive and warned it would strike another seven times at the firm's parent company, Finmeccanica. (…)
In a four-page letter (..) the group (..) said two of its members had shot Roberto Adinolfi, the CEO of Ansaldo Nucleare, in Genoa on Monday.
The letter takes aim at Adinolfi, calling him a "sorcerer of the atomic industry" and criticising him for claiming in an interview that none of the deaths during the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011 were due to nuclear incidents.
"Adinolfi knows well that it is only a matter of time before a European Fukushima kills on our continent," the letter stated.
"Science in centuries past promised us a golden age, but it is pushing us towards self destruction and slavery," the group wrote, adding: "With our action we give back to you a small part of the suffering that you scientists are bringing to the world."
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wow, goathead!
My brother is a CEO of an advertising firm for the 1%, so I have an idea of how they talk about us, but I have never heard such talk about them.
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I bet you and your brother have most interesting dinner talks!
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Lol, BreadAndButter, it doesn't stop there, my dad is a "Wall Street Republican" who voted for Richard Nixon 3 times, and still jokes about it!
I do know that things we are told are conspiracy theories are just part of everyday life for the 1%. For example, the "Credit Crunch" is not some abstract phenomenon, even before Lehman fell, they were having meetings (no emails) with my brother to say "HOARD YOUR CASH." Literally.
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NoNukes, and I bet he had lots of it, lol.
I'm impressed at your "emancipation", I know many people who would've followed the path prepared by their family.
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Yes yes yes yes yes
I agree with the point of this article.
Yes!
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It'll certainly bring it to the fore Anthony!! I agree that it will be affective and on so many levels as well!!!!!!
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Non-violence and Truth! Is the way.
Honor, Ghandi and Martin Luther King's efforts to advance us even as we are divided.
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ESPOUSING OF VIOLENCE AGAINST ANYONE WILL RESULT IN IMMEDIATE BANS.
PS thanks for the link Goathead
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I'd be interested to know what the safety record is of the Italian nuclear plants.
I'm somewhat of a pacifist, so can't condone the shootings, but I certainly understand the motivation to do so. When your government doesn't listen to the demands of the people, it seems as if violence/anarchy is the only recourse.
I have to believe the committee is just another way of covering up the facts of what is really going on at Fukushima, and at all nuclear plants generally. How much you wanna bet they'll be stacked with industry reps?
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The authority needs to be removed from the Obama administration or anything smelling like the Bush cabal, who did the mess in the Gulf of Mexico with the permission of president lobotomy head. Every skimmer ship on earth was offered up to help and our government turned sissyboy and let BP kill the gulf as blackstone investment and the Bush cabal looked on. The American and British governments are vile and unable. Major scientists need be handed the job with NO US government interference.
A whole year has gone by and Reactor 4's spent fuel pool is not secured. Seabees would have had that thing fixed and the spent fuel half emptied by now with 50 year old standards for safety followed instead of the rubbish B.O. is blowing out his exhaust pipe. The Obama administration and the Bush cabal should be made to go away.
The UN is not our friend. Trust your professors and the guys down the street unless they are cocaine and heroine dealers like Bush41 and the British royal family. Read Jim Stone's words and watch his interviews at projectcamelot.com. Sane humble people need to displace the loudmouth garbage calling the shots.
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Unfortunately, the bullies and criminals usually take over. And there are many scientists for hire who produce fraudulent research.
All nuclear power plants and facilities need to be shut down. I absolutely don't trust anyone who advocates any use of nuclear fission or so-called cold fusion for anything.
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Creativity and powerfully peaceful, dignified civil disobedience en masse is far more effective than violence which antagonizes the public. When will the sheeple rise up and occupy npp's?
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Hi demo, they do in India!!
Agree with you, civil disobedience en masse is the way to go.
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Thnx for posting this, Goathead. I think violence is counterproductive, but in a world of sheep, governed by wolves, managed by pigs, and informed by lapdogs, it's refreshing to read:
"not looking to win public support. We have nothing to do with citizens who are indignant about something which doesn't work in a system in which they want to be a part. We are wild lovers of freedom, and will never renounce the revolution or the complete destruction of the state and its violence."
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THANK GOD to finally hear that a coalition team of US and international experts is finally working on Fuku. I find this news to be an answer to my prayers.
It is the only hope. Thank you Senator Wyden .. thank you Asahi.
I consider this news to be a huge victory in the remediation of the Fuku accident.
It is the best news we could hear .. IMHO this will be the catch to MSM coverage as well. Might still be slow .. but with hope and more heroes.
I am grateful .. and wo meaning to offend those of different faiths .. I will be on my knees for continued success reports.
Thank You Father.
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Oh yes the Americans are coming, "Yippee were all gonna be saved!!"
I do hope that these "Americans" who are coming to save us aren't the same ones who made a radioactive wasteland out of Hanford. They've spent $billions and still haven't scratched the surface of the mess.
Or let us hope they aren't the ones who created highly enriched turtles at the Savanna river site, billions more and they wont let anyone in to inspect their progress.
I really hope they aren't the ones who wanted to use explosives to deal with Fukushima.
If its 'none of the above' it could be a good thing, but I think it may be a money making ploy with a bit of a smoke screen for their domestic nuclear industry thrown in.
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@ Blue Light ..
Yes .. understand your cynical attitude. .. but US also has history of calvary to the rescue .. and we are hopefully talking about an international brain think tank.
How would you prefer or suggest to see salvaltion of Fuku mess? Much interested in other considerations. The world needs them.
Peace.
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Sorry for being cynical. Just trying to make a point.
A solid and truly international team of investigators being given full access would be a great start. If then their report was given to all the top engineering, computing and scientific universities of the world in order for them to come up with ideas has to how to solve this in the long term. It will be young and enthusiastic minds that solve this problem, they have the most to lose. The NRC, IAEA and the usual nuclear cabal would be a total waste of time and money.
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Oy, watch this 'young' business, sounds discriminatory
unless you mean under 60 of course 
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No I just mean that I've witnessed the amazing ability for blue sky thinking in young graduates. Remember none of the technologies that we need have even been invented yet.
Ps. I'm 76…..again.
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@BL and Richard .. thanks .. appreciate ..
Actually ..yes, young brains are hard wired to challenge and fight
against established terrtories and boundaries into what they think is and might be uncharted ground to claim.
In that sense they stretch our human experience.
Older, mature brains are here to say .. YOU BOZO.. sorry little late nite humor ..
We are called to tell them what we have learned .. what worked and didn't .. and to sometimes sigh and say I wish I could do it over again .. or I wish I'd thought of that ..
And then when they surpass us they say "Thank you Maestro."
Take care.
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i was very tongue in cheek about the whole 'young' thing and i hope it was taken that way. all meant in good humour
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@ Richard .. humor taken. Old brains and young brains alike go nuts without *some* humor ..
Take care.
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Hate typos and hate wasting bandwidth correcting them .. **salvation**
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There needs to be a solution for getting rid of the waste – long term.
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Absolutely. How the forefathers of nuke energy ignored this problem is one of the greatest "sins" upon us and future gens.
And it goes on soooo long even after and if we could see closure of every plant and military factory.
It is IMHO becoming one of the reasons for huge cost increases and liaibilty making new nuke power unsustainable.
But we still got Fuku (s)
Peace.
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For any committee to gain the support of the people it should be comprised of reps from the widest range of perspectives (both pro and anti nuke) as possible. The work of it's members should be frequently reported on and be as transparent as can be. It's goal should not be coming up with a plan for what to do about Fukushima in order to keep the nuclear industry in business but, what to do about Fuku to avoid a worldwide catastrophe regardless of the effect it might have on the industry later. Anything less than this will lead the committee to failure.
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I believe it was Einstein who said nuclear energy will eventually kill us. How did it happen? The folks who designed and executed the technology aren't human. Look at a picture of John D Rockefeller. Tell me he's not a lizard. The internet is filled with accounts of shape shifting amphibians like the Clintons, Bushs and Obamas. Their plan is to depopulate the planet using radiation poisoning. Then they move back under ground for 100,000 years where they came from. FYI, the earth is populated from the core to the surface. Check out Dulce, New Mexico.
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I worked in Nuclear weapons for 32 years and I'm pretty sure I'm human.
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But were your Supervisors human? Are you sure?
One could concede that being involved in Nuke bombs would take a degree of dehumanization.
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I ran my research section for the ten years I worked there……..Creepy.
I know were you are EL and we are gonna feast on your brain tonight…..Harharharhaaa.
As soon I get my person suit out of the wash anyways.
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jbvtme – Cut back on the acid man, it's starting to fuck up your brain…..
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