Politics in the Zeros

The likelihood was very low that an earthquake followed by a tsunami would destroy all four nuclear reactors at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, but in March 2011, that’s what happened, and the accident has yet to be contained.  Similarly, the likelihood may be low that an upstream dam will fail, unleashing a flood that [...]

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An early morning flurry of internet reports carried scary – but false – headlines about Fukushima nuclear power plant’s fuel pools exploding and burning, and releasing massive amounts of radiation on October 22.  Many readers expressed skepticism, as the reports seemed to come from a single, unconfirmed source and by later the same afternoon more [...]

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Fukushima radiation, radioactive rain-outs and debris will continue to hit the West Coast as does other pollution. More about Fukushima radiation hitting the West Coast at Independent Voter Network.

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Full body radiation checks begin across prefecture while TEPCO, as always, says everything is fine, just fine Meanwhile, in the US, authorities assure us there is no cause for alarm at the flooded nuclear plant in Nebraska, the fire-threatened Los Alamos laboratory, or at the Salem 2 nuclear plant, which is in hot shutdown after [...]

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Plus, their “Safety” agency has more than doubled its estimate of radioactivity released. Given that Tepco and the Japanese government have lied continually and steadily through all of this, is there any reason to believe they are finally telling the whole truth now?

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Fukushima reactor 1 has melted down, fuel rods are fully exposed. Reactor 2 was “extremely dangerous right up to the end of March,” say MIT’s Technology Review. There was probably a *nuclear* explosion in Reactor 3. The reactor 4 building is in danger of toppling over. Very high radiation was coming from it, so Japan’s [...]

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Following up on earlier reports that the fuel rods in reactor 1 were truly exposed, NHK now reports another speculation from long ago, finally confirmed by official sources, namely that the reactor is now melting down. Those official sources are of course the slithering weasels at Toyko Electric who have lied, evaded, endangered millions, all [...]

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The limit was raised from 1 millisievert a year to 20, which is the maximum annual dose allowed for nuclear workers in Germany but apparently just fine for Japanese regulators who, I’m guessing, don’t have their children in those schools. Ministers have defended the increase in the acceptable safety level from 1 to 20 millisieverts [...]

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An Associated Press review of Japan’s approach to nuclear plant safety shows how closely intertwined relationships between government regulators and industry have allowed a culture of complacency to prevail. We should be so thankful that U.S. regulators aren’t also bought, sold, and paid for. Oh, wait… Regulators simply didn’t see it as their role to [...]

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As usual, TEPCO has no clue what is happening or why.

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