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Top DOE official: US “had difficulty grasping what was actually happening” at Fukushima (VIDEO)

Published: May 13th, 2011 at 4:59 pm ET
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Energy Dept: US will help contain Fukushima crisis, NHK, May 13, 2011:

A high-ranking official at the US Energy Department says the United States will continue helping Japan to put the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control.

Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman is the US government’s contact for the ongoing accident at the plant. [...]

Referring to information offered by Japan right after the accident, Poneman said the US side had difficulty grasping what was actually happening. [...]

Published: May 13th, 2011 at 4:59 pm ET
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42 comments to Top DOE official: US “had difficulty grasping what was actually happening” at Fukushima (VIDEO)

  • Heart of the Rose
    May 13, 2011 at 5:06 pm

    Lying scumbags.
    “The US had a hard time grasping it.”
    What complete BS…or is the DOE that damn stupid.
    Contain what?
    With what?


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    • Major Domo
      May 13, 2011 at 5:54 pm

      Yet, we can grasp it? What utter BS.


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    • Moco
      May 13, 2011 at 6:06 pm

      Yeah a hard tiem grasping to spin the story.

      COntain the story, the truth, for whatever that is, anymore.

      Most people don’t want to know the truth, for they simply can’t handle it, even the thought of it. Way beyond their sone.

      I just had lunch with an old friend and told him about it, and he did not even remember fukushima. Totally oblivious. The spin worked with the GOM and works even better now. The populas feels that it is Japans problem alone and nothing is coming here. Well, nothing, at least, they can touch, feel, smell, or taste, anyway.


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    • ZombiePlanet
      May 13, 2011 at 7:13 pm

      I like the part… “He expressed hope that Japan will ratify the pact soon.”

      Soon… Hey why don’t you guys have a nice sit down, get the paperwork ready, oh please form a draft first, have a round table discussion, form a committee, schedule more meetings, oh say March 2012, order some sushi and pick your damn nose while your at it!

      Then says…“Under the treaty, compensation for serious nuclear accidents would be financially supported by funds collected from the signatories.

      NOW does this include a “Global Casket Relief Fund?”

      Two months into this situation and this is it! Can someone look up in Wiki the term Pinhead?


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  • Oops
    May 13, 2011 at 5:07 pm

    I think the whole quote is more telling about the difficulty in getting information from Japan:

    “Referring to information offered by Japan right after the accident, Poneman said the US side had difficulty grasping what was actually happening. He said if US officials had been able to obtain data more quickly, they could have given better advice.”


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  • Jon
    May 13, 2011 at 5:24 pm

    I guess our EPA “had difficulty grasping what was actually happening” when they made the decision to halt radiation monitoring on our food and water supplies.


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  • Heart of the Rose
    May 13, 2011 at 5:29 pm

    With this military presence..you can’t tell me the US doesn’t know what’s up.
    The military is denied access to youtube by the way…see youtube.. lol

    http://militarybases.com/overseas/japan/


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  • xdrfox
    May 13, 2011 at 5:30 pm

    “United States will continue helping Japan to put the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant under control.”

    Besides the obvious BS how do they plan to get this under control ?


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  • NERD
    May 13, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    well it seems the usa arent very much help if they have been helping since the start.pathetic


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  • Al in HI
    May 13, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    At first, the government was unable to figure out what was going on. Once they figured out what was going on, the solution was easy: We’ll quit testing for radiation, Japan, you guys quit releasing any information to the public and build a big tent over that sucker so no one can see what’s going on. Problem solved.


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  • K
    May 13, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    Interesting. There were two links to fukushima stories on drudgereport for a couple of hours. Removed now, of course.
    Guess they need reactor four to come crashing down before anyone picks up the story again for any amount of time.

    I have seen media blocks on certain stories from time to time but I have never seen such a thorough organized blackout like this before, complete with the very agencies that are supposed to keep us safe abdicating responsibility in the critical moments.

    But it’s our own fault. We have all let our minds become numbed by our televisions to the point where we have the attention span of a gnat. If it’s not exploding, it can’t hold our interest. The fact that poison is seeping into the air and water every day just isn’t sensational enough for us.

    “This is the way the world ends- not with a bang but a whimper.”

    “This is the way the world ends- not with a bang but a whimper.”


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  • NERD
    May 13, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    makes you laugh dosent it? every single country including the usa critisised russia for chernobyl yet when it happens again no one can stop it or knows the answers.funny that


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  • Tricky Dick
    May 13, 2011 at 6:48 pm

    If they want to “grasp” it, let them.


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  • Anthony
    May 13, 2011 at 7:02 pm

    TEPCO Accused of Hiding High Radiation Levels before Explosion at Reactor No. 3

    Japan’s Asahi Shimbun reports that the operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex hid records after confirming high levels of radiation inside reactor No. 3 before the hydrogen explosion took place.
    The daily says that it acquired TEPCO’s documents of changes observed every minute within the reactors’ buildings from March 11th to April 30th.
    Data shows that on March 13th, two days before the hydrogen explosion occurred, radiation levels of 3-hundred millisieverts per hour were detected, which is higher than the 250 millisieverts limit set for nuclear plant workers.

    MAY 13, 2011

    Reporter : jhoh@arirang.co.kr
    http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=115929&code=Ne8&category=1


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  • Not Sure
    May 13, 2011 at 7:08 pm

    With 400+ nuclear power plants around the world. Industrial civilization is wired up like a suicide bomber, ready to explode.

    Helen Caldicott said that if WWII was fought today, Europe would be uninhabitable.


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    • Noah
      May 13, 2011 at 7:42 pm

      Civilizations are only as sound as their morality and their DNA. Morality being the DNA of the human spirit.


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      • mark V
        May 13, 2011 at 7:55 pm

        “To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget. ” – Arundhati Roy


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      • Noah
        May 13, 2011 at 7:57 pm

        What we are witnessing

        Gross immorality.

        GENOCIDE of future generations yet unborn, all for temporal gain and power.

        Ironically, they may have have killed the next Einstein, who would have reverse engineered nuclear fission and solved our dilemma.


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  • Barry from Saskatchewan
    May 13, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    Everyone head for Their Best Guess.

    I’ll meet you there.

    Thank you Energy News for the map.


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  • Jean
    May 13, 2011 at 9:45 pm

    With this website and other research, along with high school science and common sense, I didn’t have too much difficulty grasping what was actually happening. Add DOE to the list of incompetent government agencies, right behind the EPA in the race to win the idiot award.


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  • norral
    May 13, 2011 at 11:19 pm

    look at it like this. as soon as we all start glowing well turn of the lites and save on electricity. see,simple every cloud has a nuclear, oops, i mean silver lining


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