Posted on 01/07/2014 8:14:03 PM PST by truthfinder9
Much has been said about the Fukushima nuclear power-plant disaster, much of it true, some untrue.
The problem with the news coming out of the troubled complex is that the operating company TEPCO, the Japanese government and international agencies are not being completely forthcoming.
Some call it political spin, but others just say the world is being told lies.
The epitome of the falsehoods being told about Fukushima comes from no less than the Japanese prime minister himself.
At the final International Olympic Committee meeting in Buenos Aires, the one deciding who would host the 2020 Summer Olympics, Shinzo Abe assured the IOC the “situation is under control.”
Abe said there never was nor ever will be any damage to Tokyo as a result of the Fukushima disaster.
When pressed on the issue by Norwegian IOC Member Gerhard Heiberg, Abe doubled down and told the members, “It poses no problem whatsoever.”
Abe went on to say that the contamination was limited to a small area and had been “completely blocked.”
The prime minister also stated, “There are no health-related problems until now, nor will there be in the future, I make the statement to you in the most emphatic and unequivocal way.”
According to the IOC, Abe’s assurances were the deciding factor in giving the 2020 Summer Games to Toky rather than Madrid.
But just six days after Abe’s statement, Kazuhiko Yamashita, an executive officer of Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) contradicted the prime minister by saying, “We regard the current situation as not being under control.”
Read more at http://www.wnd.com/2014/01/atomic-lie-fukushima-danger-under-control/#tPLYb4hRIxo6trvw.99
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“the Japanese own the US nuclear reactor companies.”
And you can document this?
I believe you're right...
For many years the Japanese didn't call their cancer wards 'cancer wards' because they thought it would be upsetting. The places they do denial are different than the places we do denial. But even there you might be right. Hillary could choose not to see problems that will be happening in California... Thanks for sharing.
Nonsense. The man-made global warming crowd has always also been anti-nuclear. Some pro-nuclear people have tried to pitch nukes to the MMGW crowd, with no discernable success. Furthermore, the use of nuclear power for generating electricity dates to the 1950s; the Fukushima station was commissioned in 1971. NOBODY was talking about global warming, then. If anything, the were blabbing about global cooling.
He/she cannot, since it’s a lie.
I think radiation has been hitting the west coast if I’m not mistaken.
I had heard radiation had hit the west coast, and haven’t confirmed. If it has, I don’t know the concentrations or ramifications, but it can’t be too good.
I do remember in 86 that in the Fraser Valley, BC, cows had pink milk for a week.
Ping for later
My daughter works in the industry; so I know it’s incorrect information!
Good for your daughter. It’s an excellent industry. I hope she goes far.
They bought the GE nuclear division. The company that designed and built Fukushma #1. Not all US nuclear reactor builders, just the ones that continued to build under the Japanese umbrella. We went many years building no reactors here.
Hansen started the Global Warming meme during Reagans Presidency.
You know they're doing it again... do you feel the numbers are up again? That's it's a cover up?
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