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Fukushima Cover Up: a Play In 2 Acts

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Act 1:  Japanese Prime Minister Had to Fly In to Fukushima In the Middle of the Night to Get the Scoop from Low-Level Nuclear Workers … Because Tepco Wouldn’t Tell Him the Truth

In this 27-second video, Amy Goodman summarizes her interview with Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan:

We just came from Tokyo. We broadcast for three days from Japan. And we’re going to play the interview I did with the former prime minister, the one in charge at the time [of the Fukushima disaster], Naoto Kan. He said it was extremely difficult to get a straight answer from TEPCO, the Tokyo Electric Power Company, that ran the plants, and he had to fly in. He figured the only place he could get a straight, nonpolitical answer—he flew in the middle of the night to the plant to talk to the workers to figure out whether he had to evacuate 50 million people in Tokyo.

 

This is not the first time Tepco has been less than honest:

  • Tepco admitted that it’s known for 2 years that massive amounts of radioactive water are leaking into the groundwater and Pacific Ocean, but covered it up
  • Tepco falsely claimed that all of the radiation was somehow contained in the harbor right outside the nuclear plants

Act 2: U.S.Nuclear Authorities Were Extremely Worried About West Coast Getting Hit By Fukushima Radiation … But Publicly Said It Was Safe

Nuclear expert Ed Lyman - chief scientist at the Union of Concerned Scientists - said:

While the U.S. government was telling the American people there was nothing to fear from Fukushima and that U.S. plants aren’t vulnerable to the same problems, internally, they were—there was a much different story. So we’ve learned from a lot of Freedom of Information Act documents that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the White House were actually very concerned about the potential impact of radiation from Fukushima affecting not only Americans in Tokyo, which was more than a hundred miles away from the plant, but also Americans on the West Coast. And they were furiously running calculations to try to figure out how bad it could get. But there was no sense of this in what they were telling the public.

Indeed, Seattle residents were exposed to dangerous radioactive "hot particles" because the government didn't warn residents:

This is similar to the Japanese government withholding radiation plume data from evacuating Fukushima residents ... which caused them to evacuate to areas of very high radiation.

EneNews rounds up details on the freedom of information act information.

 

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Fri, 02/28/2014 - 16:58 | 4490894 Miffed Microbio...
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Wow, thanks akak! My tuna is Pacific pole caught in olive oil. Paid a damn fortune for it because I, like you, cannot abide the cat food escolar shit. Of course this sounds quite silly for a stash meant for survival. I have a friend who works for Bumble Bee that informed me years ago that " water" in water packed tuna is anything but. During the low fat crazy they were pressured to pack tuna in water for health reasons. There is no way to pack tuna in only water. Comes out disgustingly worse than cat food.So they had to "modify" the water for a consumer pleasing product. I have appreciated his advise and diligently only bought olive oil packed tuna since. I will try your tuna though I'm sure it's not cheap. I'm just too much of a foodie to eat crap unless I absolutely have to. Soon Fukushima will poison the entire world so the window is closing for higher food chain fish.

Miffed;-)

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 17:35 | 4491121 akak
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Miffed, always glad to  help.

Just don't let yourself be deterred by the frequenly overcautious "Use By" or "Best By" dates or generally discussed shelf lives when it comes to high-quality tuna canned in olive oil --- and yes, the olive oil is key to both its quality and its longevity.  I have it from multiple good sources that many of the European cogniscenti and aficionados of canned seafood actually stash away cans of olive-oil-packed tuna and let it age for years, like fine wine.  I myself have had cans of Ortiz tuna that I aged for six years before opening, and it was indeed more delicious than the same recently-canned product.  As there is little or no acidity in this kind of tuna, one does not have to worry about interactions between the product and the can or the can lining, as one very much does have to consider with canned tomatoes and tomato products, for example.

Sat, 03/01/2014 - 01:49 | 4492700 CheapBastard
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Consider the fish caught in deep waters off the Coast of Norway or New Brunswick...both pretty clean as far as I can tell. Islandic fish is also super but much more expensive, as is their seaweed.

Sat, 03/01/2014 - 18:20 | 4494819 Laddie
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Off the coast of Norway lies a sunken Russian submarine leaking Nuclear radiation. This was in 1986 and 60 Minutes did a segment on it and they interviewed a Norwegian fisherman and he held up a few codfish with 3 eyes each. Nice. Now I still take Cod liver oil capsules but one has to wonder just how safe it is...

Fri, 02/28/2014 - 18:24 | 4491482 Poofter Priest
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Wow......I did not know this!

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