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Source: BBC
Fukushima disaster: Tepco admits late meltdown announcement
24 February 2016 Asia
The operator of the Fukushima nuclear power plant hit by a tsunami in 2011 has admitted that it should have announced sooner that there was a nuclear meltdown at the site.
The Tokyo Electric Power Company denied the meltdown for two months.
The company now says the public declaration should have been done within days of the disaster.
Experts have long said the melting began within hours of the reactor being struck by the tsunami.
Rebirth for Japan's nuclear 'ghost town'
For the first time, the company, also known as Tepco, admitted there were clear internal regulations stating when a meltdown should be declared - when damage to the reactor core exceeds 5%.
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(27,509 posts)NNadir
(33,525 posts)...pollution from burning dangerous fossil fuels; and it's well reported in thousands of places that it kills 7 million people per year, about half under the age of 5, and about half from dangerous fossil fuel waste openly and clearly dumped into the atmosphere for anyone to see, and half from "renewable" biomass burning.
It's not like their hiding anything. They're very trustworthy. You can see their smokestacks running, pretty much all the time, even when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing.
How many people died from Fukushima again? Given the coal, oil and gas running the computers devoted to the internet discussions of Fukushima it must have been in the millions, no? Hundreds of thousands? Um, one thousand?
How does the number of people who died from the reactors compare to the number of people who died because buildings collapsed in the same event?
Was it 15,000 or 20,000? Who cares? They don't count. No reactors were involved.
Anyway, of course, we all trust the construction industry.
How many people died, by the way, from all the coal and oil and gas that's been burned so people who know zero about nuclear energy can announce on the internet on computers, using electricity that still depends (at levels still approaching 90%), on coal, oil and gas, that they don't "trust" the nuclear industry.
Of course, these same people absolutely "trust" the solar energy companies with the health of cadmium miners in China who make their toxic, expensive and useless products, and of course they're absolutely sure that Lanthanide miners in the Baotou province of China where wildcatters dig exhaustible metals for wind turbines are mined are monitored by the wind energy companies that suck, and suck and suck money out of the world economy without ever producing 5 exajoules of energy on a planet that consumes 560 exajoules of said energy.
I mean, those people who say that Baotou is an ecological nightmare obviously don't know how, um, trustworthy the wind companies are.
Speaking only for myself, I can say clearly what I don't trust. I don't trust humanity to save itself. For too long it has turned the planet over to nitpicking fools with selective attention who just don't give a rat's ass for humanity.
But that's just me.
I return the audience to the class of people who would rather discuss the tuna fish with a few atoms of Fukushima cesium in a tuna fish rather than the 70 million people who died in the last ten years from air pollution.
Have a nice evening.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)Big Capitalism (nor unnecesarily big government), period.
NNadir
(33,525 posts)There it's every man and woman for himself or herself, except of course for the victims of those people exercising their right to hold other human beings as 21st century slaves.
I May be wrong about this having never visited it myself but I don't think it's an ecological paradise though.
Have a nice weekend.
Ghost Dog
(16,881 posts)you too, NN.
Lower, cleaner, more cool.