Published: December 27th, 2011 at 7:33 am ET
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Goshi Hosono, Minister of State for the Nuclear Power Policy and Administration (Nuclear Accident Minister) with translator
Recorded Dec. 19, 2011
Transcript Excerpt
“Certainly if you are exposed to radioactive materials it is true that even though it might me a small percentage, the increased risk that you will encounter of contracting cancer is something you cannot avoid. In other words you will have this increased possibility that you might contract cancer.”
Published: December 27th, 2011 at 7:33 am ET
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It can’t be avoided
what, the cancer, the nuclids, or both?
And thx for the “certainly” after all the media whitewashing of the crisis.
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AND WHAT IS THE GOVERNMENT DOING TO STOP THE POSSIBILITY TO CONTACT NUCLIDS?
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CANCER certain, per Japanese press conference. So..thats why they are burning up the radioactive materials and releasing more radation..to let EVERYONE share in the cancer? Way to go TEPCO.
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What is stupefying is the notion that a fucking company is calling the shots, right or wrong, which in turn has a deadly effect on the national and international level.
There comes a point where fucking Japan and her people need to rise and meet the problem.
Tepco may be the obvious offender but Japan is destroying life on Earth.
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Is Hosono trying to lose his job?
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I suspect he plans to run away as far as possible from Japan the minute he gets the pink slip.
Allow me to be his virtual teleprompter if that’s the case.
“On behalf of Japan, our deepest apologies for sentencing all sentient life to a certain death. Now if you’ll excuse me, I have a plane to catch.”
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What a stoneface. Hard to read. He’s either trying very hard not to look panic stricken OR he knows just how bad it is and feels helpless to do anything.
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you are talking yourself and the ones which made you to the guillotine smarty … (not mentioned as a threat, more as a : “do you really try to emphasize what you are actually saying?”)
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Yeah, they’ve got the entire population of the U.S. As epidemiological proof that even small amounts of radiation ingested from fallout makes
EVERYONE GET FREAKIN’ CANCER
Look at the blame game here over the decades:
First, it was the Cigarette Smoking (tobacco consumed by natives for thousands of years didnt kill em, but gonorrhea did)
Second, it was Radon Alert…home testing, big PR campaign: lets show people how lethal the natural world really is befor we f*ck with the uranium
Third, it was The Sun…skin cancer, cured by use of sunscreen twenty years prior, if you have a time machine (depriving our bodies of vital vitamin D along the way)
What about Yttrium 90 resident, decaying Strontium 90. Nope, those are not what’s causing everyone’s skin cancer
What about plutonium oxide, once its in it don’t come out…
Thank You, most knowledgeable Government/Parent/Legal Authority for throwing us off track our entire lives, but as stated in Harry Potter, “The truth will out.”
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All TRUE. Blame Game: ANYTHING BUT RADIATION
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Makes me wonder Ion Jean if the ‘spike’ of skin cancer i recalk esp. in Australia in the 80-90′s was due to man’s uranium creations vs. the Sun as we were led to belive?
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Visible radiation fountain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS-QdCu_M00&feature=youtu.be
Blow this video up to full screen, look just to the right of the leftmost cooling tower.
You’ll see what looks like a column of air boiling up out of #3 wreckage – doesn’t have any color, so doesn’t look like steam to me. But even though it is invisible, it is unmistakable.
Thanks to pure water for posting this.
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I see it. Incredible find PW. Posted to HP.
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Same thing I saw last week on #3, but bigger.
Last week it was emanating from the base of the fuel pool.
I can’t tell exactly where this one is – maybe the same place – maybe the north end of the reactor building.
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It’s CREEPY to watch, knowing what it is. And it’s big.
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I think this kind of thing is too hard for even Enenewsers to look at.
It tells me how difficult this is to believe when folks here won’t look at it, can’t see it, and fight me as to its existence.
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It exists. There is definitely something to watch in the videos. I understand why you think it is very significant.
The challenge is in how to interpret it. I have no idea what it is.
As the days tick by, your interpretation seems less likely to me because of the lack of detectable consequences. You may of course still be right.
I’ll keep watching, waiting and wondering.
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So AI does that mean you buy into “if it’s not reported it doesn’t exist”?
Personally, I think what you’ve got to do is observe what you can from what you have. They are actively trying to disconnect the cause and effects.
That’s the best way to keep the public in the dark. If the plant melts down and spews radiation but you don’t admit it melted down until 9 months later the public doesn’t connect the two. Sure experts know you lied, but most of the people don’t.
I’m not a conspiracy theorist – but when you have someone obviously actively covering up the facts on a continuous basis, then there is something to it. It takes people very carefully reading between the lines – or looking deep into a fuzzy video to keep them in check. Sure you are going to jump to an incorrect conclusion sometimes.
For six months it seemed like I was the only one that kept repeating that the core of #3 blew up in the mushroom cloud explosion, and not the spent fuel pool. I was never once unsure of myself. Now it’s been confirmed, and I don’t feel vindicated – just lied to.
We’ve seen steam/radiation/fire on both ends of Reactor #3 recently. Generally when a human is trying hard to hide something – there’s something to see.
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James, I think it’s worth observing. The only problem is — there is a lot of wind blowing in the background. If one looks at videos from the past, it’s apparent the wind causes some abnormalities in the view area of whatever is being recorded. It shows up as pixelation in the picture.
I’m not at all trying to discount what you’re saying. Would you please try to describe it in more detail? I’m having trouble differentiating between the pixelation caused by the wind, and whatever phenomenon you are observing.
I’m seeing some of the pixelation in other parts of the screen, so it’s hard to tell the difference between “noise” and something unusual that’s there.
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http://fukushima-diary.com/2011/12/breaking-news-increasing-leakag-of-iodine131/
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Levels are not super high. I think again it’s halflife leftovers from November’s reported criticality.
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With a half-life of 8 days,…..this is proof of recriticality, isn’t it?
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Not necessarily, because it takes over 100 days for it to fully dissipate. It could be residual Iodine 131 from the November re-criticality. Or yes, it could be newly emitted Iodine 131. Anyone’s guess!
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OMG. The Times is reporting it was THE TSUNAMI, not the EQ!!
BULLSHIT!!!!! This is exactly what the Nuke Industry wants!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/27/world/asia/report-condemns-japans-response-to-nuclear-accident.html?_r=2
This is in-fucking-credible.
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I don’t think it matters really – yeah they’ll try to turn that into “everywhere there are no tsunami’s then we are safe”
However the safety doesn’t matter anymore. Nuke plants are generally safe – until they aren’t.
The problem with them is exactly what we are seeing at Fukushima – once they are out of control they cannot be shut down, they cannot be stopped, and then we are at their mercy – regardless of what makes them go out of control.
Stay on that topic and the cause is irrelevant.
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Meanwhile the reported elevated i131 across Europe a month ago slips out of focus. …unsourced…unexplained…unfixed…undiscussed.
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Here’s something worthy of pondering, IMHO. If the nuclear fuel began melting down immediately after the EQ, and the tsunami hit later, how much radioactive material was dispersed into the water immediately after the EQ?
Some material may have been washed out from the plant with the tsunami, because of the damage to the plant from the EQ. Even if the fuel hadn’t melted down before the tsunami hit, its cladding may have been eroded away by the salt water.
Who is to say some of it isn’t lying on the seafloor outside the plant, or that it didn’t migrate away from the plant with the tides? The tides and outgoing tsunami current could have carried some of the fuel away from the plant just after the disaster first occurred. So far, no one has discussed this possibility (that I’ve seen anyway).
Maybe this is worth considering, too.
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On the other hand, if explosions hadn’t yet occurred, the fuel would probably have stayed put. Whatever cooling water was around may have leaked out/been washed out immediately, though, when the tsunami hit. What was in the cooling water?
Judging from the crack outside one of the buildings (Reactor 2?) it’s possible there was considerable damage inside the reactor immediately after the EQ. Since there are reports of many broken pipes, etc., right after the EQ, it’s conceivable at least radioactive water left the plant and got washed out by the tsunami.
What do others think about this?
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I maintain one of the few times the truth was told early 311 was when they released ocean contamination at ten million times normal I think couple days after explosion. And I think thats low…I dont believe we have instruments designed for high rad readings.
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I see Hosono’s statement as a useful step. For the first time ever, as far as I know, a government official has acknowledged the (obvious) notion that “there is no minimum safe dose of radiation.
This is a very big change from the nonsense of bananas, smiles, “no immediate danger”, “safe levels”, blah blah.
We have been bashing them for their lies. We tend to reflexively keep bashing them even when they start to tell the truth.
We’re all in this together. We NEED these people to change their words and behaviors or they’ll just keep on nukin’.
It’s time to say “good doggie”, I think, whenever officials begin to move in a useful direction. Keep watching them of course, so they don’t pee on the carpet again. I’m completely serious with the dog training analogy – “we” are their master, supposedly – “they” work for “us”, remember?
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Totally agree
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OT
Guess who’s coming BACK TO PBS!?!? MOYERS!! IN JAN! http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-flash.html
TRUTH TELLER!!
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This is super news!!
“We are very proud to release the first beta version of our timeline of the events pertaining to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster.
The beta currently is based off of a 52 page TEPCO report based on operator logs and staff interviews, but we will be adding more data to it in the future.
Currently, the timeline functions allow users to filter data, and in time we will add Press Releases, FOIA Documents, and MSM articles to the timeline. We hope that you find this tool useful, and would love to hear some feedback from our readers.
http://enformable.com/2011/12/enformable-releases-first-beta-timeline-of-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-disaster/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=enformable-releases-first-beta-timeline-of-fukushima-daiichi-nuclear-disaster
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Got the timeline, thank you soooo much. Great work!
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DECEMBER 27, 2011
Announcement of “Cold Shutdown” of Fukushima Reactors Is Based On a Political Decision, Not Science
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=WAS20111226&articleId=28353
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this is the sort of doom that HAS no expiration date.
as the world is being wrapped in a fog of radiation, people live for fresh doom.
The Japanese people are not happy.
Many realize a significant portion of Japanese soil is not suitable for habitation. Just last October a leaked Tepco documented indicated the total amount of plutonium and neptunium emitted from the plant. This stuff sticks around for millions of years…
If you haven’t seen the dispersion maps for plutonium they are published here:
http://www.datapoke.org/blog/89/study-modeling-fukushima-npp-p-239-and-np-239-atmospheric-dispersion/
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And this just in:
http://www.shimbun.denki.or.jp/en/news/20111226_03.html
IAEA Director General predicted increase in nuclear plants to remain strong
TOKYO –The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Yukiya Amano delivered a speech December 19 in Tokyo and presented a forecast that the number of nuclear power plants would increase by 90 to 350 units in the world between now and 2030. The figure was estimated by IAEA following the accident at the Fukushima I nuclear power station operated by Tokyo Electric Power Co., Inc. Amano said, “While the rate of increase will be smaller than that prior to the accident, we still expect a substantial increase.”
Although Germany and some other countries have declared their intention to phase out nuclear power, Amano pointed out, “Except a fraction of European nations, many countries are still keen to use nuclear power while strengthening its safety.” He reiterated his view by saying, “The perception currently dominant in the world is that nuclear power continues to be a necessity” from the perspective of mitigating global warming and ensuring energy security.
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Mmmmn …. lovely, just lovely. Note in the article, the countries said to be most strongly supporting nuclear power aren’t known for their human rights efforts or openly democratic/constitutional governments, EX: Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Turkey, Vietnam, etc.
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Any time someone senior says something like that, the reality is the opposite.
It’s called “projecting” – predicting a future that isn’t so you can use your influence to get everyone pulling in a different direction.
Powerful people can make change happen using it. Weak or weakening people simply turn into laughingstocks when they try it.
The President of the United States Plays this game all the time – which is one of the hundreds of reasons I am unfit for that kind of job.
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