Japanese government, TEPCO, "mainstream media" responsible for not divulging extent of disaster that has unfolded EXACTLY as Independent Media has been reporting all along
Natural News
By Mike Adams
08/27/2013
After a 29-month cover-up, the Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is now
calling for international help and has all but admitted Fukushima's
radiation leaks are spiraling out of control. In addition to the leaking
water storage units that are unleashing hundreds of tons of radioactive
water each day, Tepco now says 50% of its contaminated water filtration
capability has been taken offline due to corrosion.
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| Fukushima never stopped leaking radiation |
The result
is that radiation leaks are escalating out of control and attempted
remediation efforts are faltering. This is in addition to the fact the
Japanese government's
attempted brainwashing propaganda campaign has also been exposed.
It attempted to convince people that if they drank beer or smiled, they
would be immune to radiation poisoning. (Yes, this is how desperate
they've become...)
From day one, the Fukushima fiasco has been
all about denial: Deny the leaks, shut off the radiation sensors, black
out the news and fudge the science. Yet more than two years later, the
denials are colliding with the laws of physics, and Tepco's cover
stories are increasingly being blown wide open.
As
Businessweek.com now reports, Japan seems to have no practical interest in solving this problem:
Russia's
nuclear company, Rosatom, of which Rosenergoatom is a unit, sent Japan a
5 kilogram (11 pound) sample of an absorbent that could be used at Fukushima
almost three years ago, Asmolov said. It also formed working groups
ready to help Japan on health effect assessment, decontamination, and
fuel management, among others, Asmolov said. The assistance was never
used, he said.
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| Government shill, liar extraordinaire Yukio Edano |
That's because for Tepco to welcome any
assistance, it would first have to admit it has a problem. And that's
unacceptable in a business culture where egos run rampant and the idea
of taking responsibility for your actions is considered abhorrent.
To save their own careers, Tepco experts would gladly sacrifice the health of millions of Japanese citizens.
27 families file suit against TEPCO
The problem with denial in the face of a world-class radiation disaster is that
sooner or later the body bags start to pile up.
Now, 74 people from 27 families are filing suit in the Osaka District
Court, seeking 15 million Yen each for psychological and physical
damage. (And they are the lucky ones who are still living.)
As the
Japan Times reports:
The
group will argue that Tepco should have taken stronger measures to
protect the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant from earthquakes and tsunami
after the government's Headquarters for Earthquake Research Promotion
warned in 2002 that there was a 20 percent chance of a magnitude 8 or so
quake occurring in the Japan Trench in the Pacific Ocean within 30
years.
Fishing ban reinstated
Part of the Fukushima
denial was the claim that fish were somehow not being irradiated by the
numerous leaks of highly radioactive water. This cover-up was further
enforced by lifting a fishing ban that had been announced in the days
following the original Fukushima meltdown event in 2011.
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| The Fukushima fishing industry has been completely destroyed along with the families that depended on it |
Now that
fishing ban has been reinstated. Australian reporter Mark Willacy
visited the fishermen to get their reaction to the news, and
what he reported sounds right in line with what we're seeing, too:
[The
fishermen] are very angry. They've obviously believed that Tepco has
been lying to them for weeks, if not months. You know, they seem to
suggest that that the cover-ups get worse... They believe Tepco's
probably sitting on more secrets that they don't want anyone to know
about. So there's a feeling that Tepco just cannot be trusted and that
these fisherman probably don't really feel like they have a future
anymore.
Tepco
lying? Say it isn't so.
Zeolites to the rescue?
In
desperation, Tepco is now trying to figure out how to stop thousands of
tons of radioactive water from leaking into groundwater supplies (and
ultimately into the ocean).
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| NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) map of Fukushima radiation plume |
Those ideas, according to CTV News in
Canada, include things like "freezing" the soil around the leak,
creating an underground ice barrier that would require ongoing freezing,
presumably for hundreds of thousands of years. You'd probably need to
build another nuclear power plant to power the freeze cores, come to
think of it.
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| A second Fukushima reactor explodes after Tsumani |
Another idea, put forth by Arnie Gundersen, arguably
the most sane observer in all this, involves digging a 2-meter-wide
trench all the way down to bedrock, then filling the trench with zeolites
which scientists now reluctantly admit trap radioactive isotopes. Note
carefully that when people talk about consuming zeolites as a detox
liquid, many modern-day doctors call it "quackery." But when push comes
to shove, even they have to admit zeolites absorb radioactive elements.
(You can't argue with the laws of physics. Zeolites work!)
Tepco answers to no one
Tepco
"...does not directly answer to any regulatory bodies, including the
country's nuclear watchdog," reports CTV. Sounds a lot like Big Pharma
and the FDA, doesn't it? Industry is running the regulators.
Gunderson goes on to explain in that same CTV article:
The
Japanese government under Abe doesn't want to admit (to the cost)
because they are trying to restart a nuclear energy program and the last
thing they need to do is tell the Japanese people that 'oh by the way,
you're on the hook for another half trillion dollars.'
The article goes on to reveal something rather startling:
Some
experts believe some of the radioactive material from the damaged core
has moved into the earth. The recent spike in radiation levels in the
water may therefore be coming from groundwater coming into contact with
the melted cores.
Whack-a-Mole
Finally acknowledging
over two years of utter bureaucratic failure and delusional propaganda,
the Japanese government is now taking over the Fukushima cleanup
effort. Today, Trade Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told the international
press, "We've allowed Tokyo Electric to deal with the contaminated water
situation on its own and they've essentially turned it into a game of
'Whack-a-Mole,'" reports
Business Week
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| Irradiated, mutant dandelions inside Fukushima "exclusion zone" |
What's
wrong with Whack-a-Mole? It's the wrong game, of course, Tepco would
prefer we all played Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) instead so that
everyone hops around like maniacs to avoid all the radiation.
Or
better yet, how about the game of Hide-and-Seek? Where did all the
radiation go? It's hiding! Oh, that's so much better, thank you!
"From
now on, the government will move to the forefront," uttered Motegi, not
realizing he was paraphrasing the anti-government derogatory phrase
used in the USA: "We're from the government, and we're here to help."
Because
when industry reaches a point of total bureaucratic failure resulting
in a global disaster that threatens all life on the planet, everybody
knows the obvious solution is to put the government in charge!
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| "Value added" buoy now glows in the dark |
The
government, you see, can simply pass a new law that says radiation is
no longer considered dangerous. In an instant, the entire problem is
solved and
Japan
saves hundreds of billions of dollars in cleanup costs. After all, if
Obama can declare America's jobs disaster to be a "success," and if
doctors can declare methyl mercury injected into children a "vaccine
treatment," then why not allow the Japanese government to declare
Fukushima solved?
Better yet, Japan should
turn Fukushima into a cancer radiotherapy clinic
where Americans can receive "radiation treatments" for cancer, because
we all know that radiation prevents cancer, right? That's what the
cancer clinics tell us, anyway.
Fukushima can become the world's newest
medical tourism hot spot
for cancer patients. Walk in with cancer and you'll walk out with so
many other symptoms that you won't even notice the cancer anymore!
That's the miracle of modern medical science. Sponsored by
GlaxoSmithKline, of course.
"We have to stop calling these events
nuclear disasters," I'd imagine a Japanese government official uttering
any day now. "They are actually nuclear opportunities for job
creation," he'll probably explain.
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