Published: May 18th, 2011 at 1:17 pm ET
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Interview with Akira Tokuhiro, Nuclear Engineer: Fukushima and the Mass Media, Vivian Norris for Hufffington Post, May 17, 2011:
[...] The numbers are disturbingly higher than we have been lead to believe, the number of homes in the villages which are contaminated, the rice paddies, the fact that the “official” six to nine month cleanup is virtually impossible, no matter how much they do accomplish… all of this is what has being kept off the front pages of the mass media. [...]
TEPCO speaks of 500 to 1,000 people involved with the cleanup, but [Nuclear Engineer Akira Tokuhiro] claims it will take ten times that amount.
“They need to tell people it will take at least 10, maybe 20 years, at least 10 if not 20, or even $30 billion and at least 10,000 people working on this, ” he repeated, “This is the most important thing they must tell people. They must be honest with the evacuees.” [...]
Virtually any nuclear engineer connected with the industry he or she supports cannot be fully trusted right now to give us the full truth about Fukushima because the truth is simply too damaging to the nuclear industry and they know it. [...]
Published: May 18th, 2011 at 1:17 pm ET
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“They must be honest with the evacuees.”
“So, who wants to go to Disney World?’ Permanently.
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Is there Disney World Australia??
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And in the U.S. —>
Cesium levels went higher on the west coast on May 14th :
http://www.bfs.de/de/ion/imis/ctbto_aktivitaetskonzentrationen_caesium.gif
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“the truth about Fukushima is simply too damaging to the nuclear industry and they know it…”
I would hope that the nuclear industry is irreparably damaged. Finally!!! If it does die, it has taken 40 years too long to kill it! Bye, bye now!
Time for more alternative energy research.
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Unexpectedly? Is that what they are implying? What planet have they been living on for the past 2+ months? What kind of cool-aid have they been drinking?
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“Hot” cool-aid.
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I’m really frustrated that this is not ‘Out’ in the normal U.S. news Media…
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TEPCO stock concerns override everything else. That conclusion stinks to realize. There should be a place worse than Hell for this blatant disregard for life on this planet.
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According to what I think I saw * on Asahi Shinbun earlier today, Tepco is down 82%, so no more concerns about maintaining its stock price.
Talk about living in a bubble!
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* trans.: too lazy to go back and look for the reference.
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Found this:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703509104576328972813512228.html
“Tepco Shares Plummet as Confusion Reigns Over Its Debt”
snip ——8><8———- snip
Was that a suggestion I saw earlier from El Prez to keep quiet and mitigate any damage to Tepco Stock?
At last, the game is up at least for the perpetrators of this catastrophe. Now all we have to do is spend the next couple of decades/centuries/millenia (delete your choice of) mitigating damage to the earth, nature, biology, …
Now then where did we put that nuclear waste dustbin.
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—- snip ——
Tepco’s shares slid 9.5% to ¥380 ($4.71) on heavy volume. The closing level represents an 82% fall from just before the earthquake that devastated northern Japan on March 11.
Revelations from the company that three of the reactors at its Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant had suffered some degree of meltdown added to the gloom from the news that Moody’s Investors Service had again cut its long-term issuer rating on the company to Baa3, one notch above “junk” status. Standard & Poor’s had previously cut the rating to BBB from BBB+
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my posts are getting more untidy/annoying 8-(
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THANKYOU for that info.If it hits them in the rear pocket maybe things will change.Money is everything …till you do’nt have it any more.
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Thanks misitu.
That news makes me feel warm and fussy…knowing that what these people cared about more so than life itself has been removed from their life success equation. What do they have left?
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I think there is a place worse than Hell, it’s Fukushima. Hell, soon to come to a town near you.
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@Cindy
I’m with you. The total blackout after around March 28th. I’m just soooo pissed, I write letters, make calls, so far to no avail. Copy of a post from other topic:
Poor Daddy
May 18, 2011 at 12:28 pm · Reply
I have written my Sen. and Congressman now twice. I have received no response from one, a form letter from another that states how much he is doing for the environment and an invitation to read more @, and a form letter from the other blaming the intransigence of the other “party”. Absolutely appalling. I bundled them all up in a file and sent it to each editor and investigative reporter at the largest newspaper in the state. They’ll probably blow it off too, but keep writing and calling. Its all we’ve got at this point, IMHO. If you wake up 5 people, and they wake up 5, etc.
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reminds me to chase up my MP. Just because am not on home soil means can ignore me.
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Or,in other words: they are rabid lying weasels.
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Very good article, yet BURIED on some back page.
The Huffington Post is NOW Mainstream Media…
Arriana made HER money of AOL and has now fallen in line with the ‘Mediots’ she used to sneer at.
Today, the HuffPost is more worried about celebrities at Cannes and the current ‘Hot topic’ in the US…Total GARBAGE!
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Huffpost has been acquired by AOL months ago, I think.
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Yup, it’s their own:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/07/aol-huffington-post_n_819375.html
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In more importand news today: A Wisconsin man finished off his 25,000th Big-Mac
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At one siting, no doubt.
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sitting. So much for THAT smartass remark.
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If he wasn’t sitt’n before, he sure is now- on the crapper.
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Yes, so unexpectedly that TEPCO was only testing 10% of their workers for internal exposure!
Radiation tests lacking / Nuclear plant workers unsure of internal exposure levels
The Yomiuri Shimbun
(May. 19, 2011)
Nearly two months after the start of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant, only 10 percent of workers there had been tested for internal radiation exposure caused by inhalation or ingestion of radioactive substances, due to a shortage of testing equipment available for them.
Tokyo Electric Power Co., operator of the crippled nuclear compound, is finding it impossible to use testing apparatus set up inside the facility because of high radiation levels recorded near the equipment.
As of May 8, 630 workers, or just 10 percent of all workers at the plant, had taken the test.
Full story:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/T110518006065.htm
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I assume this was to get more employees to apply in less fear… (your not being led to your death…) the boy in the striped pajamas comes to mind.
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like the blatant fib about not being able to decontaminate the logs from March 16th until now!
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All life on Earth Threatened
And they sent the Electric Company.
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It shoulda been The Phone Company, like in “Brazil”….
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new (13 minutes long) video from Fukushima
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/18/new-video-of-japanese-nuclear-plant/?partner=rss&emc=rss
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Japanese authorities shortly after the disaster took measures to minimize the information spreading out of the country. All telecoms were ordered to comply. Government of Japan officially asked other world governments to “try to contain radiation rumors and help hard hit Jananese economy to survive”. Anyone having a clue, would understand, that Japan Inc going bust would trigger 10xcrisis known as Lehmanns 2008, so anyone having some shares in whatever will stay in the state of denial as long as they can, how absurd that may sound.
Don’t believe anything coming from Japan, believe your own senses.
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Exactly. The financials and credit derivatives market has a big play in this….
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Can I trust my 5 dog’s senses? They are BIG time ALERTING, as in an earthquake. 3 of the 5 are SUPER sensitive-they have almost knocked doors down to get to safety the past 30 minutes or so. Prayers for us all. I’m in Ca
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Jill, I have two cats and they are alerting as well. But I think they are trying to help alerted me.
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Mag 1 CA today
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/recenteqsus/Quakes/nc71571870.php
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that’s nothing. Try looking at the activity the last 36-48 hours…..
http://quakes.globalincidentmap.com/
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Thanks a lot Tom,…as small as that was, that is just about exactly what time they started going off. However, they are not calming down all the way–not by a long shot. I’m certain you are right-that was it. More to come???
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What you mean: “WE”, crap-4-brains?
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