They were missing two workers since March 11th and didn’t realize they were gone? They are only reporting it now? Are there some other bodies they are not telling us about? Is the cycle of lies and evasions and pretended ignorance never to stop?
Do I need to discuss the ethics of this? This is pure corporate PR done badly. I imagine soon they will read the American newspapers and discover from pro-nuclear editorials that this is positive event since it will give us information that will help us prevent later disasters. In ten years they will be taking pictures of the wildlife in the restricted zone of radiation and explaining how these events made a nature preserve possible. With a few more accidents we can have the whole of Japan as a nature preserve. You will be able to pay to visit them for a few hours but don’t worry your exposure will only be equivalent to a chest x-ray.
James Pilant
From AP and Yahoo News -RYAN NAKASHIMA and MARI YAMAGUCHI –
Engineers failed to seal a crack where highly radioactive water was spilling into the Pacific from a Japanese nuclear power plant incapacitated by last month’s earthquake-spawned tsunami but said a search of the site found no other leaks Sunday.
The wave has carved a path of destruction up and down the coast and is believed to have killed 25,000 people. The first deaths at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant itself, though, were confirmed Sunday by the operator. A 21-year-old and a 24-year-old were believed to be conducting regular checks at the complex when the 9.0-magnitude earthquake hit March 11.
“It pains me that these two young workers were trying to protect the power plant while being hit by the earthquake and tsunami,” Tokyo Electric Power Co. Chairman Tsunehisa Katsumata said in a statement.
It was unclear why the men did not evacuate when the quake hit.
The bodies were not discovered until Wednesday and had to be decontaminated. The announcement was delayed out of respect for the victims’ families, TEPCO spokesman Naoki Tsunoda said.
Radiation has been spewing from the plant, leaking into the air, ground and sea. On Saturday, authorities discovered a crack from which radioactive water was spilling into the Pacific — the first time they identified a direct source of sea contamination.
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There are two major events coming down the pike that will affect this situation.
1. The monsoon season begins end of May/early June. This will make almost all of any radioactive releases spread across Japan and other nearby Asian countries such as China, Vietnam, Korea. This is good for people of the United States, not so good for the Japanese.
Given the diligence of the Japanese people, they should be asking Africa (which needs educated, hard-working people to held build the infrastructure needed there) if they can embark upon transfer of Japanese to African countries.
2. Apparently two of the giant concrete spewing machines (two of the three largest in the world) are being flow to Japan via a Russian plane (again, the largest in the world) and have been given up by American countries that are using them for the benefit of the Japanese.
Hopefully, this will begin the true shut down and control of these plants. Beyond that, Japan needs to start shutting down all of their Nuclear Plants. The seismic activity and radioactivity is going to make Japan a wasteland. As of right now, Northern Japan is, for all practical purposes, no longer habitable.
With the monsoons, the ground water contamination will continue and all of Japan will be non-habitable.
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