Published: August 7th, 2012 at 5:37 pm ET
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Title: TEPCO video heavily altered / Alternation shows utility’s reluctance to make information available
Source: The Yomiuri Shimbun
Date: Aug. 8, 2012
The recently disclosed video of Tokyo Electric Power Co. teleconferences that took place just after the outbreak of the crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant has been significantly altered, with many images blurred and audio heavily obscured.[...]
TEPCO said it edited audio, such as people’s speech and other sounds, 1,665 times in the video, and blurred images another 29 times.
“It’s to protect the privacy of individual employees and we aren’t intentionally (withholding information),” a TEPCO official explained.
However, even then TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu has been blurred in parts of the video, making his face unrecognizable. Even when his face is visible, his expressions are at times unreadable.
Some audio sections have also been bleeped out multiple times, or simply cut mid-speech.
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However, a technical staffer at a video imaging company suspects the images have been altered more than necessary.
For instance, at one point, then General Manager Masao Yoshida at the No. 1 plant makes an X with both hands in reference to a sea water injection into the No. 1 reactor.
“When he makes the X, only his hands have been blurred out,” the staffer said.
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Published: August 7th, 2012 at 5:37 pm ET
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Where is the ORIGINAL video? Bet it goes missing….anyone involved in this messy coverup..should go to jail.
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A meltdown is beyond any man's ability to control, as proven by Russians running in with tiny shovels. As for Japan, one plant accident is radiating the country, and will continue for many years. And it can happen to any country, at any time.
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It's not, just beyond any of their budgets. Expanding reactor lifetimes, not maintaining up to code, placing them in dangerous areas, not enough safety measures. When you take all of these into account, Nuclear power is not profitable.
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Exactly. Its the basic essential ingredient of nuclear power that it not be safe, otherwise the cost and maintenance would be impossible. To me this is akin to the argument if .99 repeating = 1. There is no genuine way to guarantee the safety of nuclear. One meltdown is equivalent of 100% failure.
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It is uncontrollable. Not all things depend on "budget".
Money is paper.
The damage done can not be paid for.
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Since it was blurred out, could he have been making an X with just his middle fingers?
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X…containment.
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Video is available via Enformable;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qarCD72xDBw
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Why not hire actors and fake the whole thing!
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This makes all the speculation here about ongoing meddling with the TepcoCam video images seem a bit more plausible.
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I am surprised we were allowed to see as much as we did from the Unit 1 Tepco cam. Many hours they turned it off when things looked bad, but we also saw such a huge amount of radioactive steam. Frightening to watch knowing it was going to be airmailed across the Northern Hemisphere. I will never think about any winds or clouds again without wondering what form of invisible death lurks within.
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Tepco executive “Make up imaginary measures as if we were controlling the risk
http://fukushima-diary.com/2012/08/tepco-executive-make-up-imaginary-measures-as-if-we-were-controlling-the-risk/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+FukushimaDiary+%28Fukushima+Diary%29
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Yo..TEPCO..you need to get real…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_pDSbZRCXQ&feature=plcp
(Thanks,Nuck)
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PS..F*ing morons…
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Think I'll change 'clowns' to 'cowards' from now on.
Betcha in the beginning of the disaster they were more worried about saving the reactor for a restart and only later on realized all was lost, 1 through 3 and nothing they could do about it.
Freshwater flooding of the reactors, containments, basements, whatever would help moderate the nuclear reactions and make the meltdowns worse, that's why the US flew in more boron to 'poison' the coolant waters and prevent any nuclear reactions. Seawater, I have no idea what happens when you use seawater as a coolant but the US told the Japanese to switch back to freshwater as soon as possible.
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Yomiuri Shinbun on TEPCO's Video: They even Blurred out the Face of President Shimizu
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2012/08/yomiuri-shinbun-on-tepcos-video-they.html
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