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Japanese "Over-Confidence & Complacency" Proved Deadly In Fukushima, IAEA Chief Blasts

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In a stunning report by The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Director General Yukiya Amano fingers Japanese over-confidence and complacency among the main reasons why the country was unprepared to the Fukushima Daiichi disaster of 2011. As Sputnik News reports, Amano exclaimed "there was a widespread belief in Japan that Japanese nuclear power plants are very safe and there would never be a severe accident. This belief was one of the reasons why Japan was not well prepared for severe accident." Four years later, he hopes many have learned the painful lesson that "there can be no grounds for complacency about nuclear safety in any country."

 

 

The 240-page report assesses the causes and consequences of the accident triggered by a huge tsunami that followed a massive earthquake on 11 March 2011. It was the worst emergency at a nuclear plant since the Chernobyl disaster a quarter of a century earlier.

The preparation of the report on the Fukushima Daiichi accident, which is scheduled to be made public at the IAEA General Conference this September, involved some 180 experts from 42 IAEA Member States and several other organizations.

 

“The report represents an authoritative, factual and balanced assessment of what happened at Fukushima Daiichi that should also be accessible for a non-technical audience,” Mr Amano said.

 

There can be no grounds for complacency about nuclear safety in any country. Some of the factors that contributed to the Fukushima Daiichi accident were not unique to Japan,” the Director General added.

 

“Continuous questioning and openness to learning from experience are key to safety culture and are essential for everyone involved in nuclear power. Safety must always come first.”

As Sputnik News adds,

Before the Fukushima Daiichi accident there was a widespread belief in Japan that Japanese nuclear power plants are very safe and there would never be a severe accident. This belief was one of the reasons why Japan was not well prepared for severe accident,” Yukiya Amano said at a press conference on the sidelines of the meeting of the Agency’s board of governors that kicked off Monday.

 

During the meeting, the IAEA governors are due to hear the final report on the Fukushima accident which is scheduled to be made public at the IAEA General Conference in September 2015.

 

Amano added that prior to the Fukushima disaster, the zones of responsibility of Japan’s nuclear regulative body and various relevant government offices were vague and often duplicated one another.

 

“After the Fukushima Daiichi accident there was a reform of the regulative body and the responsibility is more clearly defined. And the regulative authority is making the Japanese safety standards better meet the international standard,” Amano said.

 

He expressed hope that the governments of all the IAEA member states will draw lessons from the report on Japan’s nuclear disaster.

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Perhaps most stunningly, especially for those heading to the Tokyo Olympics in just a few years, according to Japanese authorities, cleanup efforts around Fukushima could take up to 40 years.

 

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Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:00 | 6181132 patb
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I suspect the US industry is even more complacent.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:04 | 6181138 ZerOhead
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"there can be no grounds for complacency about nuclear safety in any country."

Especially Yemen...

Neutron Scintillation Evidence of Tactical Nuclear Strike on Yemen (Neutron Bomb) - YouTube

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:06 | 6181145 nink
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There was no reasons to be concerned it's not like Japan is earth quake capital of the world building dozens of nuclear power plants on the shore line while experimenting with plutonium.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:12 | 6181159 Creepy A. Cracker
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Ummmm... Do NOT build any building that you want to stay intact in the KNOWN paths of TIDAL WAVES!!!

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:20 | 6181185 wee-weed up
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No shit, IAEA! Took you long enough! Bastards!

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:51 | 6181247 NoDebt
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They are so on top of things, aren't they?

Remember the 3 stages of basic crisis management:

1.  Deny there is a problem.  (Check)

2.  Admit there is a problem but there is nothing that can be done about it.  (Check)

3.  Admit there is something that could have been done about it but it's too late now.  (Check, check and check.)

We are now at the endpoint of the Fukushima crisis management protocol.  If you don't like the results, please drop something in the suggestions box and we'll get back to you.  Thank you for your input.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 07:00 | 6181722 Fun Facts
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Gov’t Expert: West Coast will soon be hit by 800 Trillion Bq of Fukushima Cesium-137 — Nearly equal to amount of fallout deposited on Japan — Levels in Pacific “higher than expected” — “Main body of surface plume has reached off coast of US” — Never slowed down while crossing ocean, contrary to prediction

http://enenews.com/govt-expert-west-coast-will-be-hit-800-trillion-bq-fu...

Gov’t Officials: Fukushima should be declared uninhabitable — “Conditions are getting worse, we have to move people away… we can’t wait” — “Someone has to do something” — “Just like evacuation of children in WWII” — Newspaper: “Fukushima youths ready to desert irradiated hometowns” (VIDEO)

http://enenews.com/govt-officials-fukushima-be-declared-uninhabitable-wa...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 00:45 | 6181443 TradingTroll
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Wow. Israel dropping nukes on Yemen. I am not surprised.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:02 | 6181137 max2205
Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:08 | 6181149 beavertails
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400,000 years is more like it.  The Japanese will kill themselves before admitting they are wrong.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:13 | 6181163 ZerOhead
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"In 100,000 years everyone will be laughing about this..."

~ TEPCO Spokesperson

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:45 | 6181236 NoDebt
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That's so damned true.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 23:18 | 6181305 TradingTroll
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Why just the Japanese? The radiation doesn't stop at the Japanese border.GE needs to step up. GE removed a bunch of safety provisions from the final reactor design as more funds were needed to bribe suspicious Japanese officials.  Then almost all the reactor designers quit in disgust. It would not be difficult to prove GE is 100% responsible.

 

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:12 | 6181162 davidalan1
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Been melting down for over 4years and crickets....amazing..

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:46 | 6181238 NoDebt
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Meltdown is such an ugly word.  

So let's not use it, even if it's 100% true and accurate.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:15 | 6181173 Bennie Noakes
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The Japanese (and many other governments) feel sure that they can borrow as much money as they want and never have to worry about paying it back. Is that not complacency?

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:16 | 6181178 Salsipuedes
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The Keystone Kops ALWAYS get there too late...

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:29 | 6181202 q99x2
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Up to 40 years if the water storage units don't explode.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:41 | 6181226 Zgangsta
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Fukushima will never be "cleaned up" within any of our lifetimes.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 00:38 | 6181430 patb
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30 years after Chernobyl and they are building another sarcophagus.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 22:53 | 6181248 suteibu
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"the zones of responsibility of Japan’s nuclear regulative body and various relevant government offices were vague and often duplicated one another."

No, they were incompetent and corrupt, period.   They worked for the nuclear industry, not the Japanese people.

Amano is is not criticizing, he is blaming the situation on the structure of the regulators rather than the people who held those responsibilities.  It paves the way for Abe to claim they fixed the structure and cleaned out the bad guys so you can trust us now.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 23:13 | 6181297 TradingTroll
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The nuclear industry is complacent because the insurance is provided by the taxpayer.Anyone else under such a warped incentive scheme would do the same.

 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 00:23 | 6181405 Radical Marijuana
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In Canada, the law limits nuclear power plants to only have to buy $75 million dollars worth of insurance. Otherwise, they would all be put out of business due to not being able to afford to buy enough insurance.

Similarly, in Canada, a few years ago, the government of Canada sold Atomic Energy Canada to SNC-Lavalin, which is notorious around the world for being one of the most corrupt corporations. Furthermore, the terms of that deal were ridiculous, in that SNC-Lavalin picked up all the assets for relatively peanuts, despite there having been decades of public subsides of the development of atomic energy, going back to the days when Canadian uranium ended up in the original American atomic bombs. The Canadian people kept all the liabilities, in terms of being responsible for the accumulated radioactive wastes, etc., while SNC-Lavalin acquired those aspects of Atomic Energy Canada which could be made more profitable. Of course, since then SNC-Lavalin has been in conflict with the unions that used to work within the Atomic Energy Canada under the Canadian government.

Overall, Trading Troll, that supports what you have pointed out. Atomic Energy Canada has been privatized, in ways which look like those had to be due to political corruption, while the legislation regarding the insuring of atomic power plants makes it possible for them to exist, because any accident that resulted in more than $75 million in damages would not be insured. Therefore, any serious accident would result in the privatized Atomic Energy Corporation that was particularly responsible for that particular accident being driven bankrupt, leaving those losses to be be socialized, and paid for by the Canadian people.

Of course, as my comment below outlines, there are no good reasons to expect that situation to get any better, rather than continue to get worse, faster, since the basic driving mechanisms of the FUNDING OF POLITICS continue to get worse, faster, in Canada, as in the USA, (although that is orders of magnitude worse in the USA than in Canada.) In order to understand the background to every decision that gets made inside of the established political economy, it is necessary to appreciate the social facts regarding the FUNDING OF POLITICS. Throughout the history of Canada (as similarly so throughout the Anglo-American world) less than 1% of the people have paid for 100% of the registered political activities, while more than 99% of the people have paid for nothing.

In the Canadian context, one can study the history of the Political Contribution Tax Credit since 1974 to verify those social facts, and when one looks back in Canadian history before that, the situation was even worse. My own career path was that worrying about the ways that atomic energy was being developed originally motivated me to become involved in registered politics, and then to specialize in the area of the FUNDING OF POLITICS, which I still continue to do in the Canadian context, through Electoral District Associations.

HOWEVER, actually doing that for more than 30 years has only PROVEN over and over again, that more than 99% of Canadian taxpayers always behave like incompetent political idiots, while that is actually getting worse, rather than better. Therefore, in order to understand how it is possible for atomic energy in Canada to NOT have to pay for more than a pittance of insurance against nuclear accidents, and how it was possible for the most notoriously corrupt corporation in the world to be able to buy Atomic Energy Canada, and then run that in ways which annoy and alienate its workers, and so on and so forth, one only has to look at the patterns of the FUNDING OF POLITICS.

The ways that atomic energy was developed were the most serious manifestation of how everything else also operates, due to the vicious spirals of the FUNDING OF POLITICS, which are problems that are politically impossible to fix, due to their nature as double-bind paradoxes, or Catch 22 predicaments. Therefore, after several decades of learning about those problems, and doing everything I could possibly do to try to address those problems, my current conclusions are that our society is terminally sick and insane. Civilization has become almost inconceivably crazy and corrupt.

As you correctly stated, Trading Troll: "The nuclear industry is complacent because the insurance is provided by the taxpayer. Anyone else under such a warped incentive scheme would do the same."

IN FACT, the overwhelming vast majority of taxpayers always behave like incompetent political idiots, or Zombie Sheeple that are being fleeced to exhaustion, while they are set up to be slaughtered. The ways that atomic energy was developed was only possible because that is the general overall background situation with respect to all other political problems. I WISH that I could come to some other better conclusions ... However, more and more I have been forced to face the FACTS ... Almost all of the evidence and arguments support pessimism, while there is nothing else available than irrational hope (with a background of transcendental hope) which can respond to the finite material conditions.

I am sure that the Canadian FACTS that I have outlined above would be similarly repeated everywhere else that one critically examined. Generally speaking, the established monetary systems, based upon ENFORCED FRAUDS, have become like a totally metastasized cancer that is killing the society that it has developed inside. The overwhelming vast majority of taxpayers everywhere behave like Zombie Sheeple. The systems of financial incentives which direct all decisions, including those regarding atomic energy, all take place inside of fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems. Atomic energy was developed inside of that "warped incentive scheme."

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 23:24 | 6181320 scatha
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Just for sake of sanity I have to re-post my comment to previous fantastic monuments of denial put up by Japanese government and  Orwellian media.

It’s been over two months since I posted the below comment on ZH and nothing really changed since then except another failure of some robotic toys.

What they figured out over all those years though, is that almost all Japanese NPPs developed dangerous cracks that cannot be easily and cheaply fixed if at all and decided that increasing 30 fold safe level of radiation definitely helps to deny true scope of disaster while spending at least $15 billions for it so far. I call it Japanese efficiency we all suppose to learn from.

So here I go for those who missed it.

Over 4 years passed since Fukushima disaster and latest “Science” report only confirms worst fears.

Quick recapitulation of situation:

Two of four reactors suffered complete melt down, one partial meltdown and fourth which was not operational at that time still has big spent fuel problem which cannot be removed, posing threat of explosion if another disaster hits.

In four years what they accomplished was merely pouring water on cores of melted reactors and pumping it into hundreds of storage tanks build in the vicinity of NPP while having no clue what to do with it. Attempts to decontaminate it failed.

The vessel containments of melted down reactors have failed. They developed concrete cracks as well damage of pressure piping during disaster and in aftermath. Through those fissures some of nuclear fuel and highly contaminated water’s pouring into ground water system. The fact of bridging containment vessel (prelude to China syndrome) alone leads to horrifying conclusions that the problem is unfixable at all, short of currently impossible task of removing all melted nuclear fuel from vessel and/or wherever it went. The truth that anyone involved in mitigation of this disaster wouldn’t even utter.

On the top of it after four years TEPCO does not have good account of state of melted down reactors or complete list of damages, since supposedly world leading powerhouse robotics nation cannot produce one dammed good robot that would work in such extreme conditions. Several attempts to deploy robots have been proven complete failure.

 It is shocking but they simply do not know what to do. They are in loss, confusion and panic.  There is neither plan, nor technology invented yet to tackle the problem. In desperation thousand retired workers indebted to Japanese mafia are being sent there into these reactors, for two minutes each, to senselessly die on orders of Japanese Oligarchs. It is that bad.

Since rate of process of removing radiation from highly contaminated water is many times lower that rate of pumping newly contaminated water into new, freshly built storage tanks, the whole effort is hopeless from engineering point of view. All this is just Sisyphus work, which lead to nowhere since they have to keep pumping water to cool and moderate fission material inside leaky damaged reactors so they will not blow up again. Now many those tanks are also leaking profusely back to ground water adding to chaos. All the contaminated water leaked from reactor vessels and storage tanks ends up in the ocean continually bleeding radiation and all frantic attempts of preventive measures such as “ice wall” utterly failed.

Japanese MSM media, in 1984 style propaganda of changing past to control present, covers up gruesome reality of the Fukushima situation with its human implications, not to mention ignores severe problems with remaining 100 aging Japanese nuclear reactors put offline after 03/11/2011. The official talk about Fukushima NPP decommission process planned for about four decades supposedly already started is a cruel fairy tale in context of utterly hopeless situation on the ground. The apparent inertia and indifference of the government, busy destroying Japanese economy with QE, cannot be explained in any other way than deliberated criminal, genocidal act against Japanese nation and world community unless you believe in fairy tales.

For Japanese failed policies regarding Fukushima and wider historical context:

https://contrarianopinion.wordpress.com/2015/02/20/japan-miracle-that-wasnt/

Situation at some US nuclear power plants and decommission efforts:

https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/01/01/devils-good-intentions/

and propaganda lies about renewable and nuclear energy, an excerpt from https://sostratusworks.wordpress.com/2015/02/11/engineering-renewable-delusions/ about fallacy of the concept of peaceful application of nuclear power.

The Nuclear power however, is neither clean nor sustainable and is simply a cruel hoax, masquerading as power generating technology. There is no such a thing as peaceful or civilian nuclear power. Little history. When in early fifties nuclear weapons race between US and Soviets and later China was in its apex a problem aroused of running huge operation of producing nuclear weapons in total secrecy. The issue was necessity of running secretly many nuclear reactors fueled with over 99% of U238 and less than 1% of isotope U235 which after controlled fission burning produced 3-4% of isotope U235 ready for subsequent enrichment in order to produce nuclear weapon grade fuel. Another problem was that further enrichment of uranium U235 and Plutonium Pu239 isotopes required enormous amounts of electricity, for running of hundreds of thousands mechanical centrifuges 24/7 affecting whole national power system with variety effects that were not easy to conceal.

To the rescue came bunch propagandists from Pentagon or W.H. and devised peaceful use of nuclear energy mantra, brilliantly conceived method of hiding massive nuclear war preparation effort as a benign service to humanity as proclaimed by president Eisenhower as early as  in 1953. As a result first so-called US Civilian Nuclear Power Plant was born in Shippingport, Pennsylvania in 1957, with moderate redesign of original military nuclear reactor and adding steam turbine and electric power generators. Even deadly adversaries of US in Soviet Union did not openly attack Eisenhower, by calling him liar and hypocrite in editorial of “PRAVDA” newspaper as they usually did but instead they were uncannily receptive to supposed “peace” overtures. They must have understood the point and figured out that they can also use this propaganda ploy to keep readying to nuclear confrontation while utilizing previously useless steam to light up half of Siberia, all in the name of world peace. No need to go on.

Ignoring inherited environmental dangers and flaws in basic concepts of design, nuclear power plants were never meant for civilian use for one reason alone. Namely complete lack of any technology enabling utilization of deadly, lasting up to billion years, nuclear waste for any further civilian use and fairy tales about new breeder reactor technologies do not change anything in that matter. The Fukushima NPP disaster is prime example of deadly results of reckless design based more on war contingencies than consideration for civilian lives, combined with complete criminal incompetence of private operator focused solely on profit. The medium term effects are starting to show up in form of 6000% increase in cancer cases in Fukushima prefecture while authorities call area safe.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 23:30 | 6181334 Joebloinvestor
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France could cut its' unemployment drastically just by retro fitting all of its' reactors.

One good earthquake and France is toast.

Tue, 06/09/2015 - 23:32 | 6181338 Joebloinvestor
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The island is poisoned.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 01:03 | 6181468 CPL
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Everything that eats from the Pacific is poisoned actually.  The irony is the seaweed they use to make idodine to treat radiation mostly comes from the radioactive kelp beds there.  It's not like pharma companies give a shit where something comes from, just as long as a profit can be made so lowest bidder always wins.  Lowest bidder just happens to be the radioactive kelp beds that no one wants.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 02:18 | 6181350 Radical Marijuana
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Since social pyramid systems are fundamentally based on being able to back up lies with violence, those are the real reasons for how and why the development of atomic power was an expression of deliberate ignorance to the point of being psychotic.

As I recall, there were plenty of people who warned, as much as they could, about the criminal insanities of building nuclear power plants in areas known to be subject to earthquakes and tidal waves. OF COURSE, "there can be no grounds for complacency about nuclear safety in any country." HOWEVER, the ways that atomic energy was developed was merely the spearhead point of everything else that was decided to be "good ideas" inside of social systems based on ENFORCED FRAUDS, in which those who were the best professional liars and immaculate hypocrites were regularly those selected and promoted to become the "leadership" of every agency, in order that it would be possible to promote the "widespread belief in Japan that Japanese nuclear power plants are very safe and there would never be a severe accident."

It is politically impossible to have any rational public debates about any important issues, because everything operates inside of social systems that have developed for thousands of years to become based on the ability to back up lies with violence. There are NO aspect of the ways that the industrial revolution was directed to develop that was not controlled by the FUNDING OF POLITICS, driving a cascade of triumphantly ENFORCED FRAUDS, which invariably maximized the short-term benefits, and privatized the profits, while simultaneously deliberately disregarding the longer term costs, which would end up being socialized.

MOREOVER, the degree to which there is almost nothing but that kind of civilization, with the structure of its core of organized crime, surrounded by layer after layer of controlled opposition, in which there have been vicious spirals of the FUNDING OF POLITICS, it continues to be practically impossible to have any rational public discussions about anything, due to BOTH the established systems, AND their controlled opposition, being almost totally based on the same basic BULLSHIT! The report above looks like more BULLSHIT to me, since there will NOT be any significant "reform" because that is impossible when the foundations of the whole system are totally rotten ENFORCED FRAUDS, and furthermore, there will be no "clean-up" in 40 years, but rather something more like towards 40,000 years ...

THE PROBLEM is that progress in physical science has not be surpassed by progress in political science. Instead, since politics is based upon being able to back up lies with violence, and the ONLY ways that political processes have developed is to apply technologies made possible by science to become better at being dishonest, and able to back that up, so that civilization is now even worse an oxymoronic scientific dictatorship, wherein "science" in primarily employed in ways which are runaway criminal insanities, headed towards madly psychotic breakdowns.

While it is theoretically possible that human beings could develop their political science, so that there were paradigm shifts in ways that political problems were perceived which integrated and surpassed the profound paradigm shifts that have already been achieved in physical science, the entire structure of social pyramid systems being based on backing up lies with violence, and therefore, operated by professional hypocrites, makes it politically impossible for there to be any genuine progress, which would realistically deal with things like atomic energy.

I have spent most of my life worrying about that. I remember reading about and protesting against building nuclear power plants being built in ways and places which were criminally insane, and criminally negligent, several decades ago. However, that turned out to almost totally have been a waste of time to bother to do ... The only thing significant things which have actually happened is that the established systems based on ENFORCING FRAUDS have been able to continue doubling down, while none of the disasters that caused have resulting in anything effective being done to prevent that. Moreover, in my view, after one gets an adequate overview of the magnitude of those compounding problems, it is delusional, irrational hope to attempt to become prepared for the longer term consequences of the ways that the industrial revolution has developed, by driving the social systems based on being able to ENFORCE FRAUDS INTO HYPER-DRIVE.

The INTENSE PARADOX that the human species faces are the ways that it has been socially successful in each short-term increment to be able to back up lies with violence, so that systems of organized crime, surrounded by opposition groups they control, dominate everything, despite the longer term consequences from doing that constantly getting worse, faster.  So far, mostly human intelligence has been primarily applied to become better at being dishonest and backing that up with violence. In particular, that is what dominated and directed the ways that atomic energy was developed. Since there is almost no publicly significant opposition that is not also based on the same bullshit world view, which was originally promoted by the best organized gangs of criminals, that were able to control their opposition, there is practically no genuine opposition, nor any reasonable hope to expect that any would be possible to arise. Rather, the INTENSE PARADOX of progress in science being applied in criminally insane ways, to advance criminally insane purposes, continues to automatically get worse, faster ...

The INTENSE PARADOX is that almost nobody wants to better understand human beings and civilizations as general energy systems, because when one does that one recognizes the degree to which those are as deliberately misunderstood as possible, since civilization necessarily operates according to the principles and methods of organized crime, and follows its own path of least morality, such as exemplified by how atomic energy was actually directed to develop. It may be theoretically possible to develop better systems of resistance, however, that is politically impossible as long as the only publicly significant opposition tends to be controlled by the same predominate organized crime gangs that controlled everything else by being the best at backing up lies with violence.

The cost/benefit analyses of atomic energy were always psychotic, the same as in every other area that one examines, due to the patterns of the FUNDING OF POLITICS RESULTING IN THE ENFORCEMENT OF FRAUDS, where those who agreed to participate inside of those systems, as the best available professional liars and immaculate hypocrites, were rewarded and promoted for doing so, which is demonstrated by the history and on-going behavior of TEPCO in Fukushima: http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/decommision/index-e.html

So far, I have always found that the more one learns, the worse it gets, due to it becoming more and more painfully obvious how bad the underlying problems actually are, plus understanding how and why any genuinely better resolutions of the problems is politically impossible, and will surely continue to be, due to the ways that in every short-term increment, successfully being able to lie, and get away with doing that, because of the on-going history of systems based on organized lies operating robberies continuing to deliver short-term benefits to those doing that, despite the longer term costs that will have to be paid by everyone, and especially by future generations.

Nothing about the longer term costs regarding the ways that atomic energy was developed ever made much difference. Indeed, the kinds of nuclear power plants developed in Fukushima were selected and promoted to be the dominate designs due to history of atomic energy having originally been expedited in order to build atomic bombs, as thought by the dominate militarism to be priorities in order to maintain their murder systems. The basic underlying dilemmas have always been that there must necessarily be some human death control systems, because of the background realities of natural selection pressures, due to the chronic political problems inherent in the nature of life, while those natural selection pressures drove there to develop their internalization as human intelligence, which was then primarily applied to the most significant selection pressures, which were other groups of people, that drove the development of human artificial selection systems whose death controls systems were shaped by the history of warfare to become most socially successful when done in the most deceitful and treacherous ways, which then gradually morphed to become a political economy inside of that history of warfare where financial success became based upon ENFORCING FRAUDS, and therefore, every economic decision, such as how to develop atomic energy, was directed to be made inside of that fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting system.

Of course, none of that kind of insight will make any practical political difference. Instead, there are several hundred nuclear power plants which have the potential to do what has happened in Fukushima, while there are no good reasons to expect that anything effective will be done to prevent or prepare for any of that happening either. Although the relative abundance of fossil fuels made it politically possible to not build as many new atomic power plants as otherwise might have been done, as those fossil fuels are depleted, there could be a return to building more atomic power plants. There are no good reasons to doubt that those future decisions will also continue to be made within the context of fundamentally fraudulent financial accounting systems.

The essential problems, which are INTENSE PARADOXES, are that while some human beings have been developing better physical science, in order to better understand and harness inanimate forms of energy, the quintessential animate energy flowing through human beings and civilizations continues to be as deliberately misunderstood as possible. It remains POLITICALLY IMPOSSIBLE to reconcile how advancing physical science understands general energy systems, including atomic energy, with how human beings pretend to understand themselves, because of the degree to which social sciences are almost totally dominated by the biggest bullies' bullshit world view. Furthermore, rather than progress in physical science having changed political science, failure to advance political science has more resulted in the philosophy of science being also driven to become corrupted in crazy ways, by compromising with the biggest bullies' bullshit world view. Overall, atomic energy is the spearhead of all the rest of the ways that human civilization has become increasingly psychotic and criminally insane, and behaves in madly self-destructive manners.  As was appropriately quoted here:

http://investmentwatchblog.com/the-splitting-of-the-atom-changed-everyth...

“The splitting of the atom changed everything, save man’s mode of thinking. Thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe” — Einstein

Tragically, there continues to appear to be NO reasonable expectation that enough people will change their "mode of thinking." Since the established systems are based on being able to back up lies with violence, or ENFORCE FRAUDS, and those entrenched systems have developed to not care about anything beyond being able to continue ENFORCE FRAUDS, while they have simultaneously developed armour-plated ways to continue to maintain attitudes of evil deliberate ignorance, which enable them to disregard any rational evidence or logical arguments which would lead them to any conclusions that they do not like, IT IS HARD TO IMAGINE HOW HUMAN BEINGS COULD ADAPT TO DEVELOPING TECHNOLOGIES THAT ARE TRILLIONS OF TIMES MORE POWERFUL AND CAPABLE, OTHER THAN BY THOSE EVENTUALLY CAUSING HUMAN EXTINCTION.

Certainly, after learning as much as I could about those issues, for several decades, and doing everything that I could possibly do to try to respond to those problems, that is my current conclusion. The worst of the double-bind paradoxical Catch 22 problems continues to be the vicious spirals of the FUNDING OF POLITICS, constantly paying for the resulting decisions to get crazier and more corrupt, while that problem also makes it politically impossible to do anything else. The vicious spirals of money through the political processes have become runaway criminal insanities, since those have become systems of ENFORCED FRAUDS that spawn more and more ENFORCEMENTS OF FRAUDS, which is the basic context in which atomic energy was developed, in ways which could result in the Fukushima mega-disaster ... which is probably merely light foreshadowing of the worse mega-disasters that are going to follow ...

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 07:17 | 6181746 geekz_rule
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a little verbose brother.. but well thought out, and I agree with your thesis. thank you

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 12:42 | 6182898 MEAN BUSINESS
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This nuclear weapons conundrum is core to all you do so thanks for another great read Rad.

"It's the motor of the Western World

 Spinning off to every extreme

 Pure as a lover's desire

 EVIL AS A MURDER'S DREAM

...you may be right, it's all a waste of time, I guess that's just the chance I'm prepared to take..."

RUSH / Counterparts / Cut To The Chase / 1993

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3H7kFDpQDM

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 01:26 | 6181423 ebworthen
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Can anyone make money off of it?  No?  Well then fuck the little people and the common good!

Live for today!  BTFATH!  Ignore the corruption and lies!  We're talkin' pussy and coke, money and power!

/s

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 00:57 | 6181460 onmail
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The radiation will reach American shores.

Karma returns to America

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 01:07 | 6181470 CPL
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It reached American shores three weeks after the accident.  Most people have been eating for a while in Salmon, Tuna, Sardines, Sea bass, Lobster, Crab and Mackrel.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 01:54 | 6181539 LastStanza
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No one has died. Name one person who has died.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 02:12 | 6181547 Radical Marijuana
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Low level radiation poisoning only increases the statistical risks of dying from diseases that can be caused by other mutagenic factors. It is not possible to directly connect the cause with the effects. However, there is plenty of epidemiological evidence of sudden, otherwise unexplained, mortality.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 02:17 | 6181553 Seek_Truth
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I just knew you could do it, RM.

You stated truth succinctly.

Bravo!

PS- Upvoted.

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 03:32 | 6181595 Space Animatoltipap
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Sectarian buddhists, fake christians, bewildered hindus, insane muslims, envious of God jews, hedonistic crackpots ... Luckily God is in charge 24/7, so everything is perfect, always. 

Wed, 06/10/2015 - 04:51 | 6181642 Fukushima Fricassee
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Some shit organization run by arrogant westerners telling Japnesse they are arogant ? What a fucking joke.

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