It is very unusual for Tepco to admit any significant problems at Daiichi. So, I am perplexed as to why it would publicly acknowledge loss of power needed for spent fuel pool cooling at Daiichi twice over a 3 week period:
Fukushima nuclear plant's cooling system goes offline for 3 hours (2013, April 5) http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201304050069
M. Fackler (19 March 2013) ‘Blackout Halts Cooling System at Fukushima Plant’, The New York Time, http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/world/asia/blackout-halts-cooling-system-at-fukushima-plant.html?_r=0
We are too deep in denial. Even my husband doesn’t want to know.
ReplyDeleteI feel I’m relatively unique because I want to face reality.
Maybe they are now gradually releasing real information so we (the general public) can slowly adapt to what is ahead of us.
Yes that admission was strange
ReplyDeleteAnd the poison water leak admission too.
Very odd.
IAEA is overseeing the overseers of the containment of the power plant! Everybody remain extremely calm!
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Deleteyes, this is disturbing, and more than a little depressing - excellent (as usual) synthesis at
ReplyDeletehttp://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/04/is-fukushima-leaking-or-is-the-the-reactor-wholly-uncontained.html
I'm afraid we have to accept the second hypothesis: Fukushima Daiichi is a gaping, bleeding wound that will be "leaking" for decades, who even knows where the cores are? why isn't this mystery and its medical implications headline news in every paper in the world??? why do people want to pretend this isn't happening? TEPCO only admits what it can't hide, Obama knew by the end of March 2011 about his contaminated sailors, and the children of Japan? sacrificed to protect "the industry" and criminal geopolitical power - so I'd say this latest acknowledged "leak" is only the visible tip of the iceberg, our failure to respond effectively as a global community is the real crisis, the corporate model is a death wish, and more war is their solution, takes our minds off the mess they've made, and they get richer in the process, devil's bargain, hell to pay... but ho! mitayuke oyasin, be kind to all and thank you for caring