Published: July 16th, 2012 at 2:30 pm ET
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Title: Nuclear operator to release secret Fukushima tapes
Source: ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
Author: North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy
Date: July 16, 2012
Former Japanese prime minister Naoto Kan, who was in office during the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns, has told the ABC he believes the plant’s operator has been hiding key evidence.
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[Tepco] now says it will bow to months of pressure from Mr Kan and the government and release the many hours of teleconference video taken in the days after last year’s meltdowns.
But it has confirmed crucial audio of a heated exchange with Mr Kan is missing, claiming its hard drive was full.
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Mr Kan has described the missing audio of his speech as “extremely strange”.
“The speech was filmed and broadcast to all TEPCO sites. Surely they recorded the sound at one of those sites.
“It would appear the company is trying to hide something inconvenient.”
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Published: July 16th, 2012 at 2:30 pm ET
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Yes, unfortunately I can't pay my taxes this year because, while doing them on the computer I got an error message saying my hard drive was too full to continue.
Sound reasonable?
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They would not dare to hide something like this, would they?
How Dangerous Is 400-600 Pounds Of Plutonium Nano Particle Dust Liberated By Fukushima? Via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-dangerous-is-400-600-pounds-of.html
Dr. Chris Busby; Consequences of Burning Radioactive Waste In Japan; via A Green Road Blog
http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/dr-chris-busby-consequences-of-burning.html
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The IRS isn't buying it. Expect them at your door any minute.
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Kan trying to be the hero now when he was also part of the problem when this disaster occurred.
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kintaman, Maybe PM Kan knows something we don't – such as that it might be a prudent time to 'turn state's evidence' and 'desert the sinking ship…'
Or maybe I am being overly optimistic.
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hi bleep_hits_blades – yes, I think Kan knows (has always known) the goose is cooked.
At the same time I'd agree with Max (below) as Kan is a 'Co-colluder'.
Kan will be a wolf in sheeps clothing. And I seem to recall he has still been playing both sides of the fence. My memory fails me right now, but I'm sure I've read ambiguous comments from Kan that revealed his bi-polar state. (When I wake up more I may try to find the event).
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I also believe that Naoto Kan finds himself very uncomfortable with what has happened. The human range from psychopathic to remorseful is broad. It is not a thin, fine line. I feel we get further by trying to relate to the more positive possibility than damning all and everyone.
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Agree with ya there, dharmasyd. It's important to make distinctions in people's thinking and actions, one from another, though that's not as easy as just negating them. But, eventually, harder still, the only thing that will bring about long term meaningful change is finding positive common ground with those we disagree with. It's damn hard to do, which is why it is rarely done. I fear that if we don't learn how, we are all doomed, if not from the nuclear crisis, then any of the many others that are or will be.
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Vic in O…Yes. That's the question. How to reach, how to touch the common ground, the common human ground. Even though it seems a monumental task, it must be sought…
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Co-colluder Kahn…
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Lies or not, nobody can stop meltdowns. U.S. naval ships hightailed it out of the area . .ran for cover.
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Also, my drive is full already.
But can something let me help ..
[quote=Feliks]Nice look at the animation:
http://www.javys.sk/en/nuclear-facilities/interim-spent-fuel-storage/interim-spent-fuel-storage
Andrew[/quote]
And my animation, showing what you can do in 4 Fourth swimming pool in Fukushimie.
You need to build a new building, to the basement of the reactor building to insert with three new reactors, only to store the fuel. They manage any guarantees when possible earthquakes.After filling all the water also will be a guarantee of the & span settlement.
http://www.new4stroke.com/nuclear.gif
Andrew
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In the game of collusion rule #1 is…
… ALWAYS BLAME THE OTHER GUY!
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Being the youngest of four children I learned early NOT to engage with my siblings in the task/art of 'lets decieve mom and dad' as I was always blamed for what my brothers screwed up.
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pu239 that sounds reasonable to me. In fact, maybe the entire world's hard drives are now full.
Gee, no more money to exterminate us all with and that would be such a shame for them to have to change their game plan mid stream during an extermination process.
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Was that Stuxnet? Is that all it does, fill up hard drives ?
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Stuxnet:
A computer virus that writes zeros to the brains of NPP executives, generally at critical moments, wiping their minds, and filling their hard drives with B.S. and propaganda…
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there are 10 types of people in the world, those that understand binary and those that don't
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cute thread guys … keeping it light … nice to see we all remembered to have half a life with our half lives …
I think we ought to thank Kan for breaking with the crazies … even if he was one …
How many death bed conversions? Einstein, "If I had only known … I would have been a clockmaker …" Rickover. Kan. Carter … oh yeah! Hey Jimmy! Time to come clean …
peace …
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Agreed. He did come out strongly against nuclear power toward the end of his tenure.
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+1. I think he saved a lot of lifes by not giving in to Tepcos demand to leave the site after the explosions. I doubt if Oi had seen a restart if he was still PM.
That's why the political/nuclear complex removed him from office.
My take.
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Most people who support nuclear power truly believe in it and the engineers and owners. They trust the system, as did Kan. How else could he lead the system? His change of heart is called remorse. It is what we can all hope to have when we are in the wrong – a reconsideration of our part in something wrong or cruel, or in this case, monstrous. He publicly confronted TEPCO while in office, while leaving office and after having left office. Is he trying to save his own skin? He could do that better by playing the game "I don't recall".
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This a a Prime Example of Why Fission reactors as these should have never been put into the hands of Private Corporations in the first place.
From the Beginning Nuclear power generation plants were a bad idea These Reactors were Originally Intended for one purpose and one purpose only, Nuclear Proliferation. Power generation was just a By Product of what they were intended for. It all stems from bad judgment and capitalism of this technology that got us here in the first place. If we would have spent more time on refining the science of Nuclear power generation and waited until we "were" ready we wouldn't be in this place to began with. Since the beginning of the Nuclear age starting with the Military, These reactors were never meant to be littering the entire globe like they are now and being kept online for as long as they have. These BWR's were Flawed from the get go. If we would have been Wiser in our Nuclear Infancy we would have known better than to go about it the way we have. It's sheer Insanity really. Come on, Devastate The Biosphere of the plant for what? A minuscule amount of Energy for a Near eternity of Poisoning? Any scientist with any bit of common sense will say the same thing, when they are not paid off.
Point Being, Nuclear science Is Not an Evil thing, It's how we misused it and twisted it that is. Plain and Simple The current technique for Generating Electricity by keeping a critical reaction in a Boiler is downright Idiocy.
Hindsight…
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Yeah, let the IRS audit their hard drive probably take them all of five minutes to recover the information.
I'm not interested in conversations like, "If we manually vent the reactors now, we won't ever be able to restart them to make electricity again, sure we want to ruin perfectly good reactors?"
I'd be more interest in sensor readings during 'big noise' events and US global hawk fly over results. Maybe some satellite shots and readings.
I read during the buildings taking turns blowing up that using the older/original computer system '70s? (yes, sensors readings to pin fed printouts for analysis) in the control rooms were so contaminated that they had to be decontaminated before they could decipher the readings of what went on weeks later. Lots of visual reading of the dial indicators were handwritten down by some of the techs who fled just before some of the explosions, were released to the press but certainly not all. Even the central control building which was hardened couldn't withstand the radiation and had to be abandoned.
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