Published: May 28th, 2012 at 4:59 pm ET
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Japan’s Naoto Kan Condemns Nuclear Power
New York Times
By MARTIN FACKLER
May 28, 2012
In an unusually stark warning, Japan’s prime minister during last year’s nuclear crisis told a parliamentary inquiry on Monday that the country should discard nuclear power as too dangerous, saying the Fukushima accident had pushed Japan to the brink of “national collapse.”
[...] his strongest comments came at the end of his testimony, when a panel member asked him if he had any advice for the current prime minister. Mr. [Naoto] Kan replied that the accident had brought Japan to the brink of evacuating metropolitan Tokyo and its 30 million residents. He said the loss of the capital would have paralyzed the national government, leading to “a collapse of the nation’s ability to function.”
He said the prospect of losing Tokyo made him realize that nuclear power was just too risky, the consequences of an accident too large, for Japan to accept.
“It is impossible to ensure safety sufficiently to prevent the risk of a national collapse,” Mr. Kan said. “Experiencing the accident convinced me that the best way to make nuclear plants safe is not to rely on them, but rather to get rid of them.”
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Published: May 28th, 2012 at 4:59 pm ET
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Not to worry, they will get a second chance to evacuate Tokyo if SFP4 falls.
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No worries, all nuclear plants are 'unsinkable'.
Fukushima; Today's Titantic and Costa Concordia; via A Green Road Blog http://agreenroad.blogspot.com/2012/04/fukushima-todays-titantic-and-costa.html
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So, this dude has been and will continue to be responsible for…….How many DEATHS???????
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Time to evacuate this planet!!
"Nearly 900 dolphins washed up along Peru’s northern coast between February and April"
http://zen-haven.dk/thousands-of-shellfish-found-dead-in-peru/
If we ever entered a Noah's Ark scenario, we'd be hard pushed to find uncontaminated animals!!!
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Good point. There is a seed vault in Norway, and a one for potatos (the Dan Quail spelling) in Peru. At least the ants and roaches that survive can plant crops.
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And, great news. The ants have had lots of time to practice. Sometimes I think their social order is much more orderly than our own.
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you are correct, goathead. Most aren't ready for the reality of what's (literally) descending upon our world. Some are starting to 'sense' the full gravity of this nightmare.
Unfortunately, those on high squandered vast resources on useless wars and weapons development, during the last fifty years); not to mention a host of other boondoggles. This period offered a critical window into modern society's ability to build sustainable environments in space. Had we not been challenged by the likes of Fukushima, there was a chance of our moving into space at a more leisurely pace. Such would've been ideal as it can take centuries to acclimate to the rigorous challenges of living off-world. Such effort is multi-pronged: development of hardened – sustainable – environments ('cities') for emigrating populations / development of autonomous systems/technologies for assisting in dangerous work (robotics and synthetics) / development of advanced bio-engineering technologies to assist in the efficient adaptation of living in space. We haven't undertaken any of these prerequisite steps.
It's now likely this window's been slammed-shut by the events of the preceding year. Add to this, the ongoing dithering of the 'alpha males' and you can be assured, the final days are fast approaching…
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I like my home world. Sigh.
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@HoTaters – me too. the blue pearl has been shattered by the mindless few.
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Sea water radiation map.
This is how radiation will travel .. First by Sea
More precise expalnation is here
http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread841078/pg1
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From that map, not even South America will escape it.
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That map was from NOAA and was a Japan Sendai Tsunami NOAA Wave Height Map.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoDFmHn4aLQ
But yes, I think a more easterly spead like this map of the North Pacific Gyre.
http://goo.gl/WTvbV
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THANKS.
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Langley just posted this.
Georneys: 4th Interview with My Dad, a Nuclear Engineer, about the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plants
http://georneys.blogspot.com.au/2011/03/third-follow-up-interview-with-my-dad.html
Thank you very much for doing these interviews. They have been very informative and a great help in understanding what is going on.
ALL INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE HERE:
http://vimeo.com/georneys/videos
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@Whoopie, You are a wealth of informative links. Can't wait to listen to all these interviews. Thanks!
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The evacuation of Japan may occur anyway in the very near future.
There is no way to stop the eventual collapse that is coming to all modern civilizations, who built their empires around the use of such horrid Nuclear Technology Applications.
The clock is ticking for all of us.
More Nuclear plants "will blow up and fail" and more land "will become uninhabitable" and the clock is ticking, ticking, ticking for all of us still left.
The "real news" gets worse everyday and so are the signs that this Nuclear Technology will eventually lead to the end and demise of all biological life on our planet in the future.
http://theextinctionprotocol.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/ocean-death-worsening-around-peru-thousands-of-crustaceans-wash-up-dead-off-the-coast-of-lima/
The world has changed for the worst since 1945!
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Obe sez…
"The evacuation of Japan may occur anyway in the very near future"
SP: For some countries with a melting pot population I think there might be a sizable evacuation exodus. But not Japan. 95% will never leave even if a nuclear fireball is rolling down the hill to their village.
The reason is Wa…the oldest recorded name for Japan and also a very important cultural belief of many in Japan. To call wa a state of harmony would be too simple, but add to it a pretty noticeable widespread dose of Japanese OCD and you might get fairly close to understanding why they will not leave their motherland. So…if the bad time comes and all hope is lost…they will still have wa.
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When Japan decides to start up the now shutdown Nuclear Reactors, more "will" blow up.
If the people remain, they will die, and if that is what they desire then they do not need to leave their islands.
Have all those recently displaced in Japan from the most recent Nuclear fallout disaster moved back to their newly created ghost towns?
This "brain dead world" must soon wake up to visualize the pure evil that now surrounds them in all that they do and its called invisible radiation contamiantion.
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oops..radiation contamination!
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The only reason they didn't evacuate Tokyo is cause they couldn't…it's impossible….
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This-
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