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TEPCO Director Weeps After Disclosing Truth About Fukushima Disaster
The Daily Mail has released a dramatic picture showing the emotional exhaustion of TEPCO managing director Akio Komori who is openly weeping as he leaves a conference to brief journalists on the true situation at Fukushima, following his acknowledgment that the radiation spewing from the over-heating reactors and fuel rods was enough to kill some citizens. "A senior Japanese minister also admitted that the country was overwhelmed by the scale of the tsunami and nuclear crisis. He said officials should have admitted earlier how serious the radiation leaks were. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano said: 'The unprecedented scale of the earthquake and tsunami that struck Japan, frankly speaking, were among many things that happened that had not been anticipated under our disaster management contingency plans." This is precisely as Zero Hedge had expected would happen all along, following our recurring allegations of a massive cover up by the Japanese government. And furthermore as we predicted a week ago when we said that continued government lies and subversions would make the situation untenable once the population loses faith in the government, this is precisely what has happened.
A contrite Komiri crying after he discloses the truth:
And for those who believe the lies that TEPCO and the government has any control over the situation we suggest you read the following:
Deputy director general of the NISA, Hideohiko Nishiyama, also admitted that they do not know if the reactors are coming under control.
He said: 'With the water-spraying operations, we are fighting a fire we cannot see. That fire is not spreading, but we cannot say yet that it is under control.'
And Yukiya Amano, the head of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency said workers were in a 'race against the clock' to cool the reactor.
Attempts to quell the overheating plant with waterbombs from helicopters yesterday failed and despite the army pelting the site with water cannon, radiation levels rose higher.
Engineers are also working to restore power to the coolant pumping system knocked out by the tsunami.
Also, the Mail shows a dramatic photo of a crane used to move spent fuel rodes into a now empty storage pond.
pictures emerged showing overheating fuel rods exposed to the elements through a huge hole in the wall of a reactor building at the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant.
Radiation is streaming into the atmosphere from the used uranium rods at reactor number four, after a 45ft-deep storage pool designed to keep them stable boiled dry in a fire.
And some of the radioactive material could reach Britain within a fortnight, according to experts.
However they say it will not be dangerous when it reaches our shores while low levels of radiation have already hit Southern California.
And while we descrbed the worst case scenario, i.e., the Chernobyl Solution, earlier, there is still hope for a last ditch deux ex machina over the weekend.
There was a potential breakthrough when engineers succeeded in connecting a power line to Reactor 2. This should enable them to restore electricity to the cooling pumps needed to prevent meltdown.
But it is not certain the system will work after suffering extensive damage.
Unfortunately, judging by how horrendously the government and the utility have handled the crisis so far, we are extremely skeptical any further attempts to improve the situation with fail spectacularly. In the meantime, the Japanese economy is slowing grinding to a halt as more people leave Tokyo, as factories lie dormant, and as high tech supply chains are suddenly halted. Out estimate, unlike that of an increasingly less than credible Bloomberg, is that the adverse impact to 2011 world GDP will be well at least 2% when all is said and done just factoring the events to date. Should the situation continue to stagnate it will get far worse.
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"Unfortunately, judging by how horrendously the government and the utility have handled the crisis so far..."
Sad but true. THE MOMENT I heard that the nuke plant's POWER was knocked out, I said to meeself, "PHEW - It's JAPAN. Home to GENUIS electrical engineers who can (for example) make my credit-card sized Canon camera take 1,000 photos on (seemingly) ONE battery charge." "SURELY they will arrange to have EVERY PORTABLE GENERATOR in Japan lined up, for heavy-helicopter or tracked-vehicle (eg tank repair tanks, AFV's) transport to the nuke plant, and WIRE THEM in serial or parrallel to GET THOSE DAMN WATER PUMPS GOING, until they can REMOVE the deadly uranium fuel rods and store them safely somewhere."
BUT NO! America's "HECK OF A JOB, BROWNIE" MALIGNANT NEGLECT, our DESIGNED, MALIGNANT INCOMPETENCE as a means of achieving state goals ("we DIDN'T KNOW about the 9-11 terrorists... golly gee, that means we will have to BOMB, INVADE, & OCCUPY IRAQ, silly us!") has fouled even Japan, where a nation loaded with brilliant electric engineers couldn't even think to assemble portable generators by the score to get at least SOMETHING going at the nuke plant before it boiled over and exploded... from man-portable 5,000 watt generators used all day on construction sites, to the big, car and bus sized generators used to power hospitals from tractor-trailer mounted flatbeds after a hurricane or similar emergency.
Speaking of INHERENT INSANITY, check out the Buzzflash.com article on the EXPLOSIVE nature of ZIRCONIUM used in fuel rod cladding - like 'depleted' uranium API shells, or manganese, phosphorus, or lithium, this metal seems to LOVE to BURN fiercely and/or EXPLODE. http://blog.buzzflash.com/node/12499
Another problem I just became aware of today: using SALT water to refill the spent fuel storage pools (or the reactor cores themselves) is not going to work. Why? because the quantities of salt deposited as the water evaporates becomes large in volume and plugs the flow paths through the fuel, degrading heat removal. This would happen within days.
We know the helicopter drops were using scooped sea water. And I assume the firetrucks are also getting water directly from the ocean given the much publicised difficulty in getting an operational fresh water supply.
More here:
http://bravenewclimate.com/2011/03/17/fukushima-17-march-summary/
salt+ metal+ heat= not good for the metal-spot on
Who are all these fucking trolls?
so what are your thought's K ?
Who are all these fucking trolls?
ZH members just like you.
Now, back under your bridge and next time you crawl out here bring us some cleavage.
Edit: link fail/joke fail.
You missed a pic of a woman with cleavage with an ax. She made a provacative troll.
Change gona cum.
Get ready.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=48K5Y0421Ig
Japan's Nuclear Safety Agency's Mr. Nishiyama gave a rather candid assessment on Fukushima I plant. It was hardly covered by major Japanese newspapers or the foreign press. Only outlet that reported it in more detail was Bloomberg Japan. He says some disturbing things.
For one, he seems quite open to the idea that the Spent Fuel Pool of Reactor 4 may be empty.
FYI: http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/03/fukushima-i-nuke-plant-candid.html
My wife's sister was living in Ibaraki prefecture (less than 100 miles from Fukushima) and after continued calls to her from Hawaii to inform her of the scope of the disaster (she was totaly unware due to the Japanese Media misinformation) she finally boarded a train and went to Osaka a good distance from ground zero in Fukushima.
Thus the bottom line is that there has been mass misinformation in Japan from the beginning..
http://chart.ly/gt6tv2u
March 19th Futures Charts...take a look at the Nikkei Futures... Wow..
Improvised sky-hook: Photographs of the plants show several rather sturdy towers quite near the reactors. Form loops in the ends of long steel cables with some cable clamps. Use the water-dump helicopters to play ring toss, slipping the loops over the tops of the towers. The loops would be pre-sized to stop as they slid down the towers and hit the 4 outward tapering legs. The steel cables could be led to well removed positions on the campus such that they pass directly over the tops of the blown-up reactor buildings. Stuff like water, cement, cameras, fire hoses, etc. could then be parked or dumped directly over the reactor buildings by hauling them up on a pulley with messenger lines. Unfortunately, I know they won't try this since it's obvious they are stuck in the classic crisis management linear-thinking trap where they try one thing at a time and only deviate from that plan when it fails.
Excellent—too bad this can-do improvisation seems to have vanished with the Seabees.
Y'all impute humanitarian motives to his crying, but knowing his um ethnicity, it seems more likely his tears are due to loss of personal honor / social status. This should be distinguished from caring about other people, trying to do the right thing, acting out of principle, etc. Not that the white elite in the west is better in any way :)
What a joke. Should TEPCO be culpable?
http://dawnwires.com/politics/corrupt-tepco-md-akio-komori-weeps-in-public-should-tepco-be-culpable/
A tribute to Chernobyl:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-m4lP-lZcuE
CNN reporting that power is restored to #5 and pumps are operative.
First piece of good news in a week. At least there won't be another meltdown. #6 should be repowered as well.
Just keep spraying the water to keep the temperature down until an engineering solution can be fashioned to fill SFPs, radiation levels will then decline, workers can work and restore whatever can be restored at that time and move debris.
LOL. Pumps are operative? Have you seen these buildings?
I don't know about you, but I've actually designed and built plumbing systems. This is going to be a MAJOR fail.
We play with obscure forces, which we cannot lay hold of, by the names we give them, as children play with fire, and it seems for a moment as if all the energy that had lain unused in things until we came to apply it to our transitory needs. But repeatedly... these forces shake off their names and rise ... against their little lords, no, not even against - they simply rise, and civilizations fall from the shoulders of the earth...
Ranier Maria Rilke
I wonder if this genius has ever seen that old movie (The Crying Game) Tokyo Electric needs to hire pubicists for their nuclear engineers. These Asian egos just cave in when they kill 20K!
NHK just reported 840 mSv (milli, not micro) detected 1.5 kilometers away from power plant. That is substantial folks. No other details were given, such as duration or exact location of reading.
Here is Oppenheimer himself, the überengineer, recalling how he was reciting the Hindu Bhagavad Gita when he realized that his atom bomb had worked.
Extremely moving stuff:
“If the radiance of a thousand suns /
were to burst into the sky /
that would be like /
the splendor of the Mighty One
and I now am become Death,
the destroyer of worlds.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x39eRJA1aVU&feature=related
Wow you sure they said 840msv @ 1.5km?! Highest I've heard was 400msv @ #4 Reactor east wall. And 6msv is alredy bad and 40,000 X normal background.
Smiling! That is fun.
Just heard it's 840 microsevers/840usv which is 1/6th of bad dose
This Japan nuclear thing is so yesterday's news. There is not one major news outlet that has not dropped this below Libya. Reading some of the mainstream media you get the impression they got the extension cord plugged in OK, pumps all working, nice cold water flowing freely through those storage pools and reactor cores. Nothing more to see here folks - move right along.
An intersting way to see this human behavoir is with something like Tweetdeck, one column with search term #fukushima and another with #libya yesterday. The #fukushima price is right wheel starts slowing down to a crawl and the #libya one reaches an unreadable pace as the rioting crowd of people leave one 5 alarm fire for another.
It's like a mind-link barometer of crowd behavior. The general public and news outlets all just as involved as each other feeding the frenzy.
Anything made by men will fall apart eventually, whether we like it or not. It's just the way our hierarchical management systems work; we're drawn to these systems, but eventually complacency, ignorance, and the other human constants will win out and bring to you inevitable disaster.
Look for infrastructure catastrophes in the US in the next few decades, too.
Even the mona lisa is falling apart.
This nuclear disaster is a big lousy con just like Chernobyl.
Listen folks, we were all scammed into believing that Chernobyl was an accident. It wasn't.
If you want to know the truth about Chernobyl, read the article at
http://www.veteranstoday.com/2011/03/14/dimitri-khalezov-chernobyl-and-manhattan/
Furthermore, according to Benjamin Fulford, the NWO caused the earthquake and tsunami in Japan using nukes in the seabed. This so-called nuclear incident we are being hogwashed with is to cover up the radiation from the nukes they used.
Watch the 2nd video here:
http://www.rumormillnews.com/cgi-bin/forum.cgi?read=199544
They have the technology to cause tsunamis - they've had it for years and used it for the Christmas Day tsunami in Indonesia.
Read this article to learn about the tsunami technology:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=14727
It's not about when it falls apart, it's about how it falls apart. I love this Polish composer. Care to Guess?
Frederic Chopin!!!
Understand tears for what they are: a physiological reaction to and release of internal stress/pressures.
Honorable or wussified, it's pure physiology.
bravo. everybody makin' such a huge deal of it & reading all kinda pseudo-significant bullshit into it..... poor bastard just broke - most of the observers wouldn't even have made it half the time he did
This is obvisouly they international year of natural and man-made disasters.
Its only March so still plenty to come.
My bets would be on
Icelandic volcano going up;
another major quake off Honshu;
a serious rattle in San Fransisco that will scare the shit out of all;
Turerist attacks in Saudi
Sever Asian instability due to inflation and food shortages
Accelerating domestic troubles in China..........
Reports of people fleeing Tokyo are hugely exaggerated. The western media are beginning to back-peddle on that one already.
Most of the hotels in Taiwan and Hong Kong booked out because of the Japanese 'exodus' as it were. those who can afford.
The real impact is what havoc this crisis has wrought upon the World Financial Markets with the USD breaking support to new lows, the Nikkei melting down and the Swiss Franc and Euro powering to contract highs as seen in these Daily Futures charts..
http://chart.ly/gt6tv2u
The real weeping is coming from the trading desks of those traders who got caught in the buffeting of the Yen Thursday and Friday as it swung wildly ... we may be seeing some major Margin calls disclosed here shortly...
i hope they lose every penny. tell me, did you lose any family members ? if so would you give all of your worth to have them back ? or are you that far gone.
When you saw the Japanese dropping water from helos and lining up fire trucks to spray water into the air onto the reactor cores, the truth is apparent. This horrible situation underscores why we need to deal with both replacing all generation 1 & 2 systems with new, self-contained reactors and processing nuclear waste. The practice of storing waste on site is clearly a really bad idea. I worked on the waste issue 25 years ago on Capitol Hill and we still have no global solution.
Chris
Full moon, perigee, equinoctial high tides: 6.1 EQ in Honshu several hours ago.
The most accurate earthquake prediction ever made was in Haicheng, China on Feb. 4th, 1975, when unusual animal and insect behavior, well-water level changes, gas emissions and a sudden cessation of EQ activity prompted officials to order 1 million residents out of their homes into the winter snow, saving hundreds of thousands of lives as the 7.0 quake hit 5 hours later destroying homes.
American science in general and overlapping, self-serving federal bureaucratic cabals in particular will never reach the life-saving decision level that saved these Chinese lives.