Published: October 10th, 2011 at 8:41 am ET
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SOURCE: Tokyo under illusion that things are normal while Fukushima remains a war zone, Mainichi, October 10, 2011
[...] Shinzo Kimura, 44, a radiation hygiene expert who resigned from his post at a research institute under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare when it prohibited an initial investigation into the disaster, and immediately went to work in the disaster area. [...]
Published: October 10th, 2011 at 8:41 am ET
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http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201110080284.html
TEPCO orchestrated ‘personal’ donations to LDP
2011/10/09PrintShare Article
Tokio Kano (Asahi Shimbun file photo)
Tokyo Electric Power Co. executives pumped tens of millions of yen in personal donations into Liberal Democratic Party coffers in a campaign apparently backed by the company’s political lobbyists, an Asahi Shimbun investigation found.
Although TEPCO’s public relations department insists that the company does not encourage the donations, The Asahi Shimbun found that at least 448 of the company’s executives donated a total of 59.57 million yen ($777,000) to a political fund-raising arm of the then ruling party between 1995 and 2009.
Sources said TEPCO determined the amounts different ranks of executives should donate, with the chairman and president asked to contribute 300,000 yen, executive vice presidents asked to donate 240,000 yen and managing directors asked to give 120,000 yen.
Senior staff were briefed about donations on taking up new positions and told exactly how much was appropriate for their jobs, the sources said.
Between 2005 and 2009, 60 to 70 percent of TEPCO executives made individual donations to the People’s Political Association (PPA), which takes political donations on behalf of the LDP, part of a pattern of giving across the nuclear industry that netted the party large sums.
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Tepco has paid more hush money to-date, than compensation to the victims of this crisis…
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TG could you post your link again. I failed to bookmark it. Thanks in advance.
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http://fukushimadaily.webs.com/
good morning 
Here here whoppie.
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Good morning. Thanks!
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http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_111008_05-e.pdf
Situation of Upper Part of Unit 1 Reactor Building, Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_111008_05-e.pdf
Reactor 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndYCoLcdmFY&feature=player_embedded
Reactor 2
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5YwTTTA3pw&feature=player_embedded
Sorry about the over / post the html is all too limited here…
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Interesting earlier pages as well…this one has a bunch of pics. One of which is a monitoring post, note all gauges except MP-2 are showing offscale. MP-2 reads zilch, probably stopped functioning.
http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_111008_02-e.pdf
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Sorry to reply to my own, but isn’t MP-2 located at the plant gate area, and isn’t that the main one they always put in reports?
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Maybe it’s only me, but I’d like to discuss the article this thread is about….
At the end it says
“Of utmost urgency now are the evacuation of children, decontamination, and the installation of becquerel monitors to measure radiation levels in food. But meanwhile, in Tokyo, we’re talking about economic growth and the export of nuclear technology, as if what’s going on in Fukushima is somehow irrelevant to us. That, I believe, is simply wrong.”
I think this is an awesome article for a public newspaper. Any opinions?
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Howdy,
Yes, I was just pointing out in the recent TEPCO report some things that they aren’t reporting (no surprise). But in terms of this, it’s not only great the article itself was printed, but also that it included specific stories and numbers from individual living in that war zone.
Sadly, it becomes clearer and clearer to anyone watching the war was lost months ago for Fukushima, and possibly Japan as a whole, and perhaps the Pacific Ocean, the jetstream, etc etc.
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After a working lifetime successfully more or less finding out my clients’ real agenda I have to admit complete failure with the current bunch.
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That sentence struck me also as an indication of ostrich head in the sand:
“But meanwhile, in Tokyo, we’re talking about economic growth and the export of nuclear technology, as if what’s going on in Fukushima is somehow irrelevant to us.”
SP: Denial of a crisis is not healthy in the long run, because when things really get bad in Tokyo there is going to be far worse panic than the government tries so hard to avoid now.
Yes, life for the disinterested goes on merrily, but the general population needs to get jacked up and get a grip on thinking months ahead and not 24 hours at a time. Massive contamination looms and there will be hell to pay in the next 12 months.
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They are expecting their nifty vacuum cleaner bots to fix everything.
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The disinterested are equally and even more vulnerable to death.
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Looks like Japan is finished as a supplier of Nuke plants and Nuke technology to the world.
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A very prophetic quote from the article:
“Come here and look at the reality.”
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