Published: December 26th, 2011 at 10:46 am ET
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Report Condemns Japan’s Response to Nuclear Accident, New York Times, Dec. 26, 2011:
[...] And devastatingly, the government failed to make use of radiation data to predict the movements of the radioactive plumes released from the plant to warn local towns and direct evacuations, the report [by a government-appointed investigative panel] said. The failure helped expose entire communities to harmful radiation, the report said.
“Authorities failed to think of the disaster response from the perspective of victims,” [the panel’s chairman, Yotaro Hatamura, a professor emeritus in engineering at the University of Tokyo] said. [...]
Published: December 26th, 2011 at 10:46 am ET
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NYTimes!? Posted both places at HP.
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Y’all better check this thread out for AGR’s transcript of BUSBY VIDEO. INCREDIBLE STUFF THERE.
http://enenews.com/the-gift-of-knowledge-gundersen-thinks-melted-core-will-get-through-containment-and-hit-water-audio/comment-page-1#comment-175390
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And the NRC has yet to implement the safety recommendations of the Fukushima Task-Force.
NRC Commissioners:
Gregory Jaczko
William Magwood
Kristine Svinicki
William Ostendorff
George Apostolakis
From Congressman Edward Markey, D-MA:
“1. Four NRC Commissioners attempted to delay and otherwise impede the creation of the NRC Near-Term Task Force on Fukushima.
2. Four NRC Commissioners conspired, with each other and with senior NRC staff, to delay the release of and alter the NRC Near-Term Task Force report on Fukushima.
3. The other NRC Commissioners attempted to slow down or otherwise impede the adoption of the safety recommendations made by the NRC Near-Term Task Force on Fukushima.”
http://markey.house.gov/docs/regulatory_meltdown_report_final_w_attachments.pdf
http://enenews.com/nrc-commissioner-on-nrc-doc-someone-reading-this-would-think-that-every-reactor-in-the-country-is-a-time-bomb-waiting-to-go-off-attempted-to-prevent-release-of-fukushima-report-to-public-cong
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From Wikipedia:
“The Atomic Energy Commission was dissolved because it was perceived as unduly favoring the industry it was charged with regulating, and the NRC ‘seems to have fallen into the same trap.’”
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Nuclear_Regulatory_Commission
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Thanks for those Mack. Posting to HP here
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/japan-fukushima-disaster-probe_n_1169837.html
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COMMENTS ARE COMING IN FAIRLY FAST…if you want to join in.
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Lets dissolve the NRC now, among other dysfunctional institutions, and replace it with a CNSA (Citizens Nuclear Safety Authority)…I volunteer to serve on that commission; no pay! Save the taxpayers money in this Depression.
Rep. Markey needs to get a little more vocal about who in Washington is pulling the nuclear strings and why…I’ll bet when one of the US reactors blows in FukU fashion, the evacuation zone will be insufficient and this article will be quoted, if we can find it then…
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NYT makes it sound as if there was a missed opportunity to save people from the harmful effects of radiation, which of course there was but what about now? Today! Tomorrow! Isn’t radiation exposure still a danger that should be approached with the idea of protecting people? Not only in Japan but elsewhere? It’s an ongoing problem!!!!!
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STOLE THAT MM. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/japan-fukushima-disaster-probe_n_1169837.html I dont usually plagiarize but sometimes I DO! FORGIVE ME!
Got to get off here and take my bath anyway. KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK ENENEWSERS! LATER
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Glad you did!!!!
Keep up the good work Whoopie!!!
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““Authorities failed to think of the disaster response from the perspective of victims,” Mr. Hatamura said.”
seems to be lacking details
one question!! 3 words
how
many
victims??????????????????????????????????????????????????
how sad!
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I FEEL SO F**KING SAD WITH THIS REPORT ARC. Good god what the hell now? REFUGEES WILL BE STORMING BORDERS SOON. WHAT COUNTRY WILL TAKE THEM???? SAD HORRIFIC AND CRIMINAL!
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the refugees will be mainly internal.. big social change.. the questions are .. who is up to the challenge of realising this in japan? who is doing the necessary planning?? how can they overcome a cororate take over of the media?? no easy answers!!
but the japanese are resiliant and focussed when they are put to the challenge, change in japan is possible because of the japanese peoples nature.. they are awakening! and people are doing the pre plannning anyway!! life goes on! things change!!
take care whoopie, im off to watch a video!!
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Saw a very tired disheveled older Japanese couple a few minutes ago at a restaurant. They looked like refugees so I asked them where they came from…answer… Fukushima city.
The exodus is undocumented except for anecdotal evidence. But I wonder if the US will expel them when their visiting papers are expired. Visitors may need American lawyers to help them stay. Japan and especially central Japan is uninhabitable by previous nuclear disaster standards.
SP
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Posted your story here sp. So frigging sad.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/26/japan-fukushima-disaster-probe_n_1169837.html
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No mention by NYT of earthquake damage caused to Daiichi BEFORE the tsunami, nor of the jet stream CURRENTLY forever carrying rads to all lands. Spot on, many moons. These fkrs ALWAYS speak in the past tense, as if the fuku rad show is all done and over. Current jet sream and forecast links for anyone interested
http://realitycheck.no-ip.info/forum/index.php?topic=67.0
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This report by the Guardian, UK’s pro nuke tabloid, is depressing me. Idiot. Go post a comment, please. These idiots need to be put in their place.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/dec/26/fukushima-disaster-nuclear-japan?newsfeed=true
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done! LOL!! best post yet.. unmoderated so far.. err mentioned busby !!
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Arc,….Could you point me out the Busby link for that Italy talk two weeks ago I guess? Pretty sure my memory is correct, you were the pixil of light that brought it to us this AM. I knew I’d want to share it with others but forgot to mark it.
Or anyone, if I’m wrong. Can you help me find it? Thanks
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@stilljill
http://enenews.com/the-gift-of-knowledge-gundersen-thinks-melted-core-will-get-through-containment-and-hit-water-audio/comment-page-1#comment-175202
transcript by a green road posted under
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What utter garbage eh?
Monbiot lost alot of cred when he used this disaster in Fukushima to come out in favour of nukes. Sure we understand Britian is about to build 8 new plants as part of teh renaissance ( and the US just annonced another new one on its path to many more) but outright lies like “It is now estimated that Fukushima has released about 1/10th the radiation of Chernobyl” are just too much too tolerate. Shame on the Guardian for shilling like this. It is reprehensible.
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@kevin might have improved the page a bit.. doesnt seem moderated with my earlier posts just tried this.. am playing the concerned schill/parody
then i gave them this
“found this link on enenews too! it the japanese independant radiation monitoring group, they work with ACRO france.. simple gamma map.. much higher density population than around pipryat…
got loads of links to population illness and reduction of population in belarus, though one could google!
100 years before reactor 4 chernobyl is decommissioned according to the belarus authrities!! (want a link?) and they are doing 3 in forty years? err i think not, as the same companies will be decommissioning both..
contract just awarded end of last month!!
not pretty stats even if only 44 people died as a result of chernobyl! german wild boar anyone? scottish sheep?
hear they are having serious problems in the mountains with the forest and mushroom industries….
at least child rights international network are aware!! se1 , 10 minutes from the guardian head office i believe?? might be worth a visit, or look at the website CRIN, go to the countries section and click japan!
look at little people trying to sue the big boys… no chance!! no publicity… just saying!
thanks for listening
great website!!
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safecast contamination map of japan
http://gamma.tar.bz/maps/main/
the guardian doesnt have a clue! busy slagging of julian assange!
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Still here, catching up! Info comming in faster than a speeding nutrino. Evacuate Now. It’s never to late! Well…maybe it’s not to late.
Got a couple rooms here, but since I live in the coastal mountains of Northern California, there will be no takers.
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Day one after the explosions, I thought to myself, wow now we have a reason to fill China’s empty cities they have constructed that could house millions.. but stand empty.
Then of course, i remembered the second world war…. What a bizarre world we live in.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h7V3Twb-Qk
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Scathing Report on Fukushima and Response: Read the actual article I posted them here as downloadable PDF in both English and Japanese.
http://oahutrading.blogspot.com/p/japan-nuclear-information.html
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“The risk of tsunami exceeding design basis had not been considered. Therefore,
no preparation was made for the eventuality such as “simultaneous and multiple
losses of power” and the “Station Blackout including DC power supplies”. No
operational manuals were in place for recovering instrumentation equipment and
power supplies, PCV venting, etc. in such conditions. Staff education was not
organized for such eventuality and equipments and materials for such recovering
operations were not ready for use on stock.”
I cannot believe this is happening. They knew all along that they were not prepared. Almost as if it were supposed to happen. Yea, I guess we do learn by our mistakes, or not.
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Better yet it is reported today in a new report that employees and executives could not operate the systems they had in place anyway. Bizarre and surreal. Another “incomptence was the problem” not the nuclear idea approach to the narrative. Supported by it “was the governments fault” undercurrent, not of course the industry, which as we all know is perfect.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBa_J4L6rC4&feature=colike
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*On Now* Rense Radio “Jeff Rense Program” here’s the App, live feed for …
http://rense.gsradio.net:8080/rense/livefeeds/16k.asx
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Wow xdrfox,…that was an alarming last part of the program I just caught. Thanks—-I think! FEMA camps told to be ready in 72 hours? Did he mean, tell them to ‘be ready at anytime in less than 72? Or what? No, it can’t be NOW, because there’s no rioting in the streets. Yet.
Thanks Doc,…..that part about B.O. getting rich from the BP folks,……for his ‘cameo swim in the Gulf’,…the “Ah Shucks friends, see me eat this seafood,…the Gulf is open,…come on down’” Circus. Yup,…..that show filled in some missing pieces of the puzzle for me. I believe it all.
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CNN gave the story about 5 words in the scroll today – that’s it – nothing else. The words of course were ambiguous mush, something like “Report: Japan’s nuclear response contained errors” (probably not the actual words, just my memory of them).
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perfect
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Feeling like those feeder fish I purchased for my oscar. Swimming around watching my friends go down one after anohter all the time wondering, am I next.
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Yes Tumrgrwer,…am feeling a bit like a ‘guppy in a blender’ myself. TPTB control the buttons to the blender also. Is it getting hot in here?
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List of military and civilian nuclear accidents.
When some PNP states how nuclear is safe, or the new nukes are going to be safe, just put up this link and ask them to explain it
http://oahutrading.blogspot.com/p/japan-nuclear-information.html
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Here is a full list:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?fulltext=Search&search=List%20of%20military%20and%20civilian%20nuclear%20accidents
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…“In other words, we should recognize from the start that just like Chernobyl, Fukushima plant has released radioactive materials equivalent in amount to tens of nuclear bombs, and the resulting contamination is far worse than the contamination by a nuclear bomb,” he said. “So what’s the implication of the huge amount of radioactive materials released and dispersed wide? It’s much harder to predict the behavior of the particles, as they behave in a non-linear manner.” …
http://www.majiroxnews.com/2011/12/22/kodama-named-as-one-of-worlds-top-10-most-influential-scientists/
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State, Tepco slammed for crisis response
Dec. 27, 2011
Lack of disaster preparation, poor communication hit by nuke panel
The government failed to contain the Fukushima crisis early on because of poor communication and information gathering, while Tokyo Electric’s failure to prepare for the worst sealed the fate of the tsunami-hit nuclear power plant.
These were the interim findings reported Monday by a third party panel …
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20111227a1.html
The word is getting out MSM Japan !
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Whatever the failure was there from government’s side is past now. We must join our hands together to make government take proper course of action to protect people from further disaster.
I recently discovered the following dispersion model, which someone had linked to Berkeley’s discussion page. It uses TEPCO emission data to model possible dispersion patterns for Neptunium and Plutonium
http://www.datapoke.org/blog/89/study-modeling-fukushima-npp-p-239-and-np-239-atmospheric-dispersion/
http://datapoke.org/partmom/a=114
If this model is accurate, it is very disturbing. Where are all of the so-called experts who claimed these elements were too heavy to travel far from the plant site?
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Thanks for sharing!
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