Published: July 23rd, 2012 at 11:32 am ET
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NHK: The final report… urges further study on the total amount of damage caused by the accident. Panel members were hampered during their year-long investigation with high levels of radiation at the plant. This issue prevented them from entering the 4 reactors. The report says that they were unable to learn why the No. 2 reactor had discharged the largest amount of radioactive substances. They were also unable to determine why a hydrogen explosion had occurred at the No. 1 reactor.
Asahi: The government panel… called on the central government to play a leading role in further investigations, including on-site studies, since there are many unresolved issues, such as the process by which radioactive materials leaked out of the Fukushima No. 1 plant.
Reuters: The government-appointed panel said there was no proof the earthquake was a key factor in the disaster but added that some impact could not be ruled out, contradicting Tepco’s own findings, which put the blame solely on the tsunami. The panel called on Tepco to review data presented to the panel, which it believes contains errors, and urged the utility to carry out further investigations into the causes of the disaster.
Asahi: The report criticized TEPCO’s argument that the nuclear accident was due to a tsunami of an unimaginable, unpredictable scale. It stated, “The reason the accident was beyond assumptions was because no attempt was made to make assumptions due to a safety myth that had no basis in fact.”
Published: July 23rd, 2012 at 11:32 am ET
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Are they unable to just state the most likely causes?
1) It is most likely that cooling was lost in Unit 1 causing a hydrogen bubble and
that exploded?
2) The second most likely cause is that the fuel pool in Unit 1 lost cooling and boiled, causing a hydrogen bubble?
3) That is is most likely that Unit 2 had a core meltdown that was contained and the high radiation levels are a result of corium in the basement?
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They know nothing, report is a farce, covering their arse, collation between gov and tepco, leave it to tepco for further answers ( we demand independent third party, tepco has lost all credibility and no one trust them ).
All these great minds have no answers further proof mankind can not fully control, does not understand or safely operate nuclear fission, these people were the best they have and that's the best you can do, not acceptable.
If we do not act this will be the demise of mankind and bio diversity, no fission.
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Reactors are extremely dangerous. Mechanical error, and/or human error is all it takes …as proven by past and present nuclear disasters.
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TEPCO sez, "We've gone fission', don't bother us".
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[quote]The government-appointed panel said there was no proof the earthquake was a key factor in the disaster but added that some impact could not be ruled out[/quote]
If some impact couldn't be ruled out … that means there **is** evidence that the earthquake damaged the structure. And what is a "key factor" and what not, is subjective.
Lastly, if the earthquake impact was indeed marginal, you wouldn't mention it, would you ? This sounds to me as only telling half of the truth.
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Question: I wonder if someday future historians will ask, "Why didn't those people on planet earth storm the palace of the Nuclear Overlords the first time they were lied to?".
Then they may ask, "…and what about the second time and third time they were lied to, why did they not revolt in mass? Their lives and future generations and the planet were at stake, yet they did nothing.".
Answer: I don't know. (?)
I'm not just talking about Japan, it's the whole planet. Is it shock, apathy, brainwashing or a combination thereof?
Again… I don't know.
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I don't think there are going to be any future historians ChasAha..
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Well chasaha, every time I've suggested the people need to get on the street and take some swift, decisive action, I've been told I'm encouraging anarchy and to put a lid on it.
The people holding their Teddy bears and using words like hope and pray are simply the passive lot who expect change to just magically forment from the ether. They keep insisting that only by using peaceful means will we achieve an anti-nuke world.
Well, the villains in this processes possess all the power,all the billions of dollars, all the armies and they have the bombs. Just in case anyone wasn't paying attention.
The future will look back at a bunch of pussies with their teddys and throw them into the same unwanted basket as the nukers themselves. 'What a pack of lame o's ', they'll say.
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Japan and TEPCO is not sure how Fukushima melted down but in the meantime it is okay to restart nuclear plants sitting on known earthquake faults. Can't even be sure of radiation fallout counts past, present or future but the answer to contamination is to forged ahead as the death count is/will be within acceptable limits offset by nuclear power generation for the good of all.
Nuclear protestors are just radicals.
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Maybe because unit's 1 and 3 exploded they were able to cool them more effectively. Unit 2's building structure remained in tact, and wouldn't allow external cooling. Unit 2 went into hyper meltdown, and the corium left the vessel completely.
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Give me a break, they might be able to fool people with no nuclear knowledge, and I guess that is what they are banking on. But seriously!!!!
When the earthquake struck all systems were operational including all sensors and indicators. The 3 units scammed and rods were inserted. Until all power was lost after the tsunami they have a record of everything that happened in every system, and those records are available because there is a hard copy print out. So there is a perfect record of everything until after the tsunami.Somewhere back in time i even saw a report listing a timeline of events, which emergency systems were started and how long they ran.
They have no excuse for this stupid study, just more smoke and mirrors. They know much more than what they are saying, but the last thing they want to do is blame the earthquake because that brings into question all their other plants on fault lines.
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unless Jim Stone is correct and those readings were faked by a Stuxnet or similar virus, nothing at all to do with the Isreali based firm that had security contracts and internet access to the site. then we can accept Stone's further premise that the Japanese government (to the extent it hasn't been whored in the last 60 years as it has in the West) has been blackmailed to shutup or suffer further attacks. / conspiratorialising.
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