The nuclear power industry has a habit of soft peddling their problems, and nowhere is this tendency more vexing than in the country where the latest nuclear disaster is unfolding. Many of these "cover ups" in Japan have been documented by a film documentary by Tony Barrel
In 2003, the same company that runs the Fukushima plant that was threatened by the Tsunami, had a PR problem. Reactors across Japan were forced to shut down when the company was found to be falsifying data to cover up problems. These were less serious but still life threatening problems, so in this more serious problem, with much more at stake, can we believe the current PR team for the same company. They say that what is being released into the atmosphere is a manageable small amount of radiation, as much as we would exposed to in a regular month Our own fleet however did not find it comfortable to sit down wind, and moved. Now we here it is as much as we are exposed to in a year, so their revision claims....
What will they do with the sea water they are using to cool down the reactors? Currently it is supposed to be safe, but with the explosion at the 3rd reactor, which apparently did more damage, the containment system has apparently been breached, which likely means that the seawater can now seep inside and seep out again. I wish they could funnel it all to the company swimming pool and gold fish pond (glow fish?)
In an entirely different historical incident, a Japanese firm actually doctored a video in order to make an incident look better. Jeesh.
And now we have the second worst nuclear disaster in the world's history. This latest explosion led to release into the environment, and this means that it is worse than three mile island. We are now in unchartered territory, with about as much openness as we had for the worst disaster, in Russia, with Chernobyl. Can they mitigate that damage. I can bet they will try to mitigate the PR damage. They may not be able to avoid a more complete meltdown of either the reactors or of their PR effort.
In 2003, the same company that runs the Fukushima plant that was threatened by the Tsunami, had a PR problem. Reactors across Japan were forced to shut down when the company was found to be falsifying data to cover up problems. These were less serious but still life threatening problems, so in this more serious problem, with much more at stake, can we believe the current PR team for the same company. They say that what is being released into the atmosphere is a manageable small amount of radiation, as much as we would exposed to in a regular month Our own fleet however did not find it comfortable to sit down wind, and moved. Now we here it is as much as we are exposed to in a year, so their revision claims....
What will they do with the sea water they are using to cool down the reactors? Currently it is supposed to be safe, but with the explosion at the 3rd reactor, which apparently did more damage, the containment system has apparently been breached, which likely means that the seawater can now seep inside and seep out again. I wish they could funnel it all to the company swimming pool and gold fish pond (glow fish?)
In an entirely different historical incident, a Japanese firm actually doctored a video in order to make an incident look better. Jeesh.
And now we have the second worst nuclear disaster in the world's history. This latest explosion led to release into the environment, and this means that it is worse than three mile island. We are now in unchartered territory, with about as much openness as we had for the worst disaster, in Russia, with Chernobyl. Can they mitigate that damage. I can bet they will try to mitigate the PR damage. They may not be able to avoid a more complete meltdown of either the reactors or of their PR effort.
