Published: August 16th, 2012 at 7:26 pm ET
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Title: NISA told Tepco to delay reporting looming explosion
Source: Jiji (via Japan Times)
Date: Aug. 16, 2012
The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ordered Tepco in March 2011 to delay announcing that the pressure level in one of the Fukushima No. 1 plant’s wrecked reactors was spiking to critical levels, teleconference footage released by the utility shows.[...]
Tepco was forced to defer an announcement after pressure inside the reactor 3 containment vessel suddenly spiked to alarming levels around 6 a.m. March 14.
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the utility was instructed to withhold the information by NISA
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The agency then made an announcement shortly after 9 a.m. March 14 — just two hours before a hydrogen explosion destroyed the upper part of the structure housing reactor 3.
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Excerpts from the Tepco Footage
- “We’ve been stopped by the government and are being made to wait before issuing any announcement to the press”
- “NISA officials are blocking any release of information on the matter”
- “The agency’s officials are saying that (Tepco) should not be the entity to announce this either”
- “We’ve been strongly requested, instructed not to announce this”
h/t Gizmodo UK
Published: August 16th, 2012 at 7:26 pm ET
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at least someone was doing their job right..
"..Masao Yoshida, then manager of the crippled plant, instructed workers to temporarily evacuate the reactor building, fearing a hydrogen explosion was about to rip it apart,…"
the three hour delay could have saved many from unnecessary contamination. so NISA "stands in the dock" charged wit the crime of manslaughter..
and Masao san, who saved many lives can add the workers in reactor three to his credit..
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I think there are at least 2 reasons information is withheld 1 is money; 2 is "they" (public and other 'lesser' beings) can't handle the truth. Both are extremely offensive to me.
The 2nd especially so because it's condescending and promotes "let the experts make all the decisions in all matters at all times". It's anti-democratic in principle, it's anti-educational, and it's a key reason so many critical govt decisions get made without public input. I think it's what is sometimes called "rule by technocrat" but it's been around for a long time in history, supported by notions among wealthy elite that their stations in life are evidence of "superiority". (A lingering concept from "the king is god's representative on earth"?)
Often the money angle seems an easier objection to make clear. Condescending behaviors are linked to subtle beliefs and values not usually recognized by those who hold them – and are often also not recognized by those subjected to them!
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That delay made the evacuation "order" hit past prime time news in America. Maybe more high level pressure than just the Japanese?
We do know that a day before Obama escaped the first huge fallout plume by flying south to Rio with his huge entourage he invoked an unusual order:
"On March 16th, President Obama signed a new Executive Order which expands upon a prior order issued in 1950 for Disaster Preparedness, and gives the office of the President complete control over all the resources in the United States in times of war or emergency."
http://www.examiner.com/article/president-obama-signs-executive-order-allowing-for-control-over-all-us-resources
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SP.. Seems like yesterday, and forever ago.. hiking in the Cascade foothills while fall out rained down on top of my two girls and myself, and our best friends and their families.. the sky turned pink.. kind of a cotton mouth effect affected us all.. of course now we know from Arnie that the background level of Seattle was increased 40,000 times and areas of the cascades should be decontaminated, cause they are RADIOACTIVE now…
While my President rushed his family away, with our tax dollars to safety, and made sure us normal citizens did not even have the chance to duck and cover. Had we realized that nuclear fallout big xenon cloud was above us we would have been indoors sealed off from hot fucking particles.. but we didn't even have a clue., and we never will "officially" get one! ..and it still pisses me off!(that is the seems like yesterday part
)
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Curious. The whole point of the separation of branch rule in America – Congressional, Executive, and Judicial was to make sure that the President could never make war without approval of Congress since Congress ALWAYS held the purse strings. Hmmm….
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And to make sure that if the president ducked a major fallout cloud with his family while leaving his financiers (Us) in the dust literally, that Congress would hold him accountable…
Be interestiing if someone would track the whereabouts of all our Washington clown posse chicken hawks on those days in 2011…
This article points to another smoking gun alright, now get the subpoenas rolling and start the kangaroo court!
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Without covering up and lying, the public will not regain trust into the safety myth of the nuclear industry. That is transparent.
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Just think of all the people in the vicinity of Fukushima that could have avoided a lot of radiation, not to mention those in other countries who could have taken precautions.
Do these "decision makers", have any value for life but their own and their stinkin reputations and wallets?
I'm so furious right now. Earth is not populated by a bunch of dumb human beings. Why are the choices we should be allowed to make for ourselves and our families health/safety being taken from us because we are kept in the dark?
We don't have that option anymore?
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I'm with you sister. EVIL obviously exists. Most of us here are of the lesser evil. I feel the same frustration. You said it well.
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too late now
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@patb2009
August 16, 2012 at 11:56 pm
Thats precisely the reason why there are plenty more Fukushames awaiting us while the first is threatening us into ELE. And to dosdos below:
Your statement confirms my worst fears.
WE ARE IN THE DARK AGES
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Still calling it a hydrogen explosion…..
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Connecting the dots you will eventually come to the conclusion that this is a very convenient way to reduce the amount of sheeple -just blame it on the natural disaster! Except there's plenty of us who know it isn't quite that simple… They could have well prevented a LOT of damage if they REALLY wanted to…
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@Peaceismyfriend
August 17, 2012 at 2:04 am
Indeed. But when man's thinking has been fragmented by modern civilization, and I must emphasize this on pain of repetition, but because it is falling on deaf years everywhere, I must:
See the tremendous swarm of earthquakes on the 13th of March and 14th in the vicinity of Fukushima Daichi/Daini, and from this you can see the buffeting that the Japanese nukes must have been receiving- the nuclear effects of the worldwide dam surges taken together- get a sense of the damned surges from just 30 large Indian dams- some -7435.61 million cubic meters dam content changes on 13th March 2011 to some 10959.6 million cubic meters dam content changes on 14th March 2011- a water pressure head spike at the center of gravity of India dams at location 23, 78.75 of some 214 km/sec average every second- what a nuclear explosion effect this is- just see
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-1RyTenJzGBE/TZi7M3ZllvI/AAAAAAAABnk/MlFc2mlUIes/s1600/ole19.gif and
http://glaringlacuna.blogspot.in/2012/01/nuclear-effect-in-causing-earthquakes.html
And no wonder the spiker on the reactor three was a wrencher of the magnitude of a hydrogen bomb- not a hydrogen explosion!
Pull yourselves together pronukes and see the holistic picture de infinite a La Fukushame a La Dams now and close them all down before more Fukushames follow,even elsewhere.
Thanks admin for posting this explosive wake up call.
Pros- answer this dam effect explanation scientifically here.
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@Ramaswami Kumar
August 17, 2012 at 2:51 am
Please check this out for the swarm on 13th March 2011 and 14th March 2011:
http://livingnormally.blogspot.in/2012/08/modern-civilisationanother-set-of.html
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This is a good, but, rather technical paper from the early 1980's on industry and government risk perception of technology and why they don't get that people want more information and more say in what risks to take or not to take as a community. It addresses this disconnect we see between laypeople and public officials.
http://sds.hss.cmu.edu/risk/articles/WhyStudyRiskPercep.pdf
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No nuclear power plant can exist without an official "Emergency Plan". It is the most important document for any plant, and it focuses on safety for the general public. It is taught to all workers, and is practiced by plant workers at every plant. These plans call for evaluating the problems at any plant in relation to the safety of the general public. After problems are detected within the plant's boundaries teams are sent out into the community to measure radioactivity, sample air concentrations, and measure weather conditions. They are connected to all civilian authorities including police and fire to mobilize evacuations if needed.
For this plant to ignore all this and not tell residents that danger was impending is criminal. My point is that if reactors in trouble just drop the emergency plans then there are no public safeguards at all. For every town meeting or official review of any licence this should be argument #1. "If plants with problems drop civilian safety and their emergency plans, then what safeguards do the general public ever have anywhere".
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@chrisk9
August 17, 2012 at 11:58 am
Invaluable input. Shows how local feifdoms act to proliferate deadly ionising radiation into the biosphere contrary to all safety norms laid down.And get away with it since the inception of the nuclear power programmes by spreading all kinds of lies with official approval.POGROMS IN ACTION.Nothing has changed since the Nazi horrors. When will truth triumph? When will the true magnitude of the catastrophes involving nukes ever dawn on the general public? How many more F's before the dawn of realisation to act in the proper direction? That is acting responsibly as the bottomline and thereafter the trivialities of profit?
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