Published: January 23rd, 2012 at 9:01 am ET
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Title: No records of nuclear disaster taskforce meetings
Source: NHK
Date: Sunday, January 22, 2012 23:27
It has been revealed that the government’s nuclear disaster taskforce did not keep any records of its meetings after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. [...]It made important decisions, including the designation of evacuation areas, basic policies on decontamination and restrictions on the shipment of agricultural produce. [...]
The public records management act requires minutes of important meetings to be kept, so the government may achieve accountability and the people may verify the process by which decisions are made. [...]
It is also investigating the lack of minutes for the meetings of the joint taskforce of the Tokyo Electric Power Company and the government, which discussed how to deal with the accident.
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Published: January 23rd, 2012 at 9:01 am ET
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Did you know that this is the Year Of The Dragon.
How fitting. FIRE-BREATHING-RADIATION-SPEWING-DRAGON.
BBL
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4:00 PM
IAEA Press Release. “Accident at the Tokaimura Fuel Conversion Plant.”
“IAEA learned of the accident. The IAEA Emergency Response Unit immediately made contact with Japanese authorities in order to closely follow the situation.
Japan Times. “Tokai Nuclear Accident Goes Critical; Remains out of Control.”
Prefectural authorities in the adjacent town of Naka said the radiation level was rapidly increasing, based on observations of monitoring posts inside the town.”
5:00 PM
The Associated Press, “Radiation levels remain high after nuclear accident.”
“According to the Japan Atomic Energy Research Institute, 2-4 millisievert of radiation per hour or 10,000 to 20,000 times the normal level-was detected inside the processing facility as of 5 pm. The government’s Nuclear Safety Commission said there might have been a continuing “criticality,” as there continued to be high levels of radiation seven hours after the accident.
Sodium 24, a radioactive substance, was detected in the vomit of three of the victims.
The government decided to set up a task force headed by Science and Technology Agency chief Akito Arima to deal with the accident.”
http://www.isis-online.org/publications/tokai.html
http://en.goldenmap.com/Akito_Arima
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oops! wrong disaster… wonder if they kept the minutes to this? err time for tea!!
sorry!
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura
Tokaimura nuclear accident (Japanese: Tōkai-mura JCO-rinkai-jiko), which occurred on 30 September 1999,[1][2][3] resulted in two deaths.[4] At that time, it was Japan’s worst civilian nuclear radiation accident. The criticality accident occurred in a uranium reprocessing facility operated by JCO (formerly Japan Nuclear Fuel Conversion Co.), a subsidiary of Sumitomo Metal Mining Co. in the village of Tōkai, Naka District, Ibaraki.[5]
The accident occurred as three workers were …
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaimura_nuclear_accident
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“…public records management act requires minutes of important meetings to be kept…” becomes grounds for legal action against all complicit parties. It would behoove the IAEA to take action against the TEPCO executive body and those within the Japanese government who were tasked with oversight and emergency response. Any failure on the part of IAEA to further ignore this failure would be an abrogation of their charter-obligations.
At what point are we to wait for the UN/IAEA to step into the breech?! Seems these two international bodies are long overdue, in any credible response. Or, will there be no end to the incompetence?
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“will there be no end to the incompetence?”
My view is that there will be no end to the incompetence. To err is human. Even without malice, skulduggery, corruption, greed… the technology is much too dangerous for a demonstrably-fallible species to control, where the test-bed is the one and only planet we inhabit.
“Close doesn’t count, except in horseshoes and hand grenades.”
Occasional incompetence is inevitable in human behavior, and inevitable incompetence certainly doesn’t mix well with nuke projects. Let’s be sure we don’t buy their arguments that “the new ones are safer”, or “heads will roll”, or “we won’t do it again”, among all their other tainted arguments.
So far, the nuke accidents have been mere fender-benders (even Fukushima and Chernobyl) compared to what is possible.
SHUT THEM ALL DOWN
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@aigeezer: I totally agree with your assessment; that such technology is too risky to operate within the biosphere and only gets worse when you input human fallibility into the equation.
I also like your preemptive strike against the likely rhetoric we’ll be (and already are) seeing. And regarding the specific allusion to safety, I don’t care for further assurances of safety! Are we to continue waiting for the end of all life before we wake-up to these endless assurances?
I, for one, have lost – all – faith in these people…and their assurances…
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