Posted on 12/20/2013 11:27:33 AM PST by FR_addict
We’re gonna have to agree to disagree on the “stigma” issue. Thanks for the link.
“We’re gonna have to agree to disagree on the “stigma” issue. Thanks for the link.”
Please explain yourself.
The breathtaking degree to which Japan and TEPCO have lied about this disaster repeatedly has eroded the public trust in many quarters. For example, they knew that the plants had failed within about 48 hours of the disaster but they lied to the public and said they had it all under control....for about 2 more years.
Most of the media in Japan is largely “bought and paid for” by TEPCO (play nice and you attend the press conferences, ask anything unpleasant and you’ll never get inside the doors), or was leading up to the disaster. That didn’t keep TEPCO from getting in trouble for falsifying safety documention.
The storage tanks were ramshackle Potemkin villages built to substandard specs on uneven ground in seismically active zones and were meant to conceal the fact that hundreds of tons of highly radioactive water (strontium, cesium etc.) are flowing into the ocean daily from the ground water/corium.
Nothing TEPCO says or does is paired with the truth - it’s simply a narrative spun on demand. Early on, one daring reporter asked “Are you testing for plutonium?” and the TEPCO flack got angry and said something like “NO. We don’t test for plutonium because we don’t need to.” Then JAPAN unwinds it’s less-than-useless amoral food testing program (tests a tiny fraction of one or two farms and declares the entire prefecture crops safe for consumption. Don’t like contaminated rice and are avoiding produce from the affected areas? The government will help you by eliminated markings on the food products so you can’t avoid fukuhsima produce and they’ll mix contaminated rice with clean rice and all this will be shipped to every prefecture.
Nothing happens the way it should and the last person I trust to “dilute water” properly or accurately test or report what is in the water they release is TEPCO/JAPAN. Their early water filtration system SARRI failed repeatedly and could not keep up with the output they were trying to capture and put in tanks. I know they began to bob and weave but I have no reason to believe they were able to remove all the contamination they wanted and that few outsides want to approach those tanks (have you read about the high level radiation hot spots resulting from leaks) to test it so we just have to take the word of pathological liars that the water “only” contains tritium (see? perfect application of technology on a massive scale! YAY!) and that they would dilute it, it will be safe etc. All the hard core information coming out of Fukushima in hazardous areas comes from Fukushima workers and TEPCO only admits truth when they can’t hide it anymore.
Yes tritium is the least harmful of radionuclide. But it is a source of ionizing radiation that can cause cancer and is therefore regulated and while the nuclear power industry boldly refutes decades of peer reviewed large scale state-of-the-art scientific study of the effects of ionizing radiation on human health but is quickly satisfied with their own self serving guesses and assertions when it comes to exceeding official safety limits originally set by organizations like the Nuclear REgulatory Commission or the EPA, not “socker moms” or “fear mongerers”.
The nuke industry, after destroying the public trust one lie at a time, believes dismissing the mountain of lies which they’ve already dumped upon the population and labels legitimate concern as the mindless ravings of ignorant Ludites.
Japan’s government, TEPCO and the complicit nuclear power industry have long since destroyed their ethicial and professional credibility with continuous deception about Fukushima, if not before with other events, and they don’t realize it. THerefore, the dismissal the public’s skepticism and distrust (”Now what are you saying you’re going to do? And how do I know that’s true and what will really happen and if it goes wrong you’ll just lie to our faces again so there’s no downside for you”) with the term “stigma” doesn’t work for me - we gotta agree to disagree.
Just take TEPCO’s pretense of setting up leaking substandard tanks to pretend they are capturing radioactive water in tanks to protect the environment while attempting to hide the hundreds of tons of extremely radioactive ground water dumped daily into the Pacific (since they know it’s happening, I’m SURE they are out testing food fishes and seaweed and notifying the public) ...then tell me it’s a) pure water plus tritium, nothin’ else and b) will be handled safely and won’t harm the environment It’s not stigma - is public disgust and TEPCO and the nuke industry earned every bit of it.
The tritium can be safely diluted and dispersed. The safest place to put all our nuclear waste would be at the bottom of the ocean but the stigma of dumping in the ocean will not allow that.
Yup I just gotta agree to disagree with you. But I wish you a Merry Christmas.
“while the nuclear power industry boldly refutes decades of peer reviewed large scale state-of-the-art scientific study of the effects of ionizing radiation on human health but is quickly satisfied with their own self serving guesses and assertions when it comes to exceeding official safety limits originally set by organizations like the Nuclear REgulatory Commission or the EPA, not “socker moms” or “fear mongerers”.”
Obviously you have been mislead by the anti-nuke fear mongers.
Merry Christmas.
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