China’s main worry and it’s foreign policy threat is actually…
Japan.
Why?
Because Japan pollutes China consistently.
The Chinese media refer to it as another incident of the Rape of Nanking legacy of racist enmity across the sea of Japan.
The Rape of Nanking is the greatest crime imperial Japan committed against China and it’s people and to this day they haven’t apologized. So it is again referred today, when Japan unapologetically spoils the Life of the Chinese people all over again with it’s nuclear fall out cloud stemming from Fukushima.
And this time they don’t do it as invaders at the point of the bayonet but in a far more insipid way. They do it with air borne radiation. The nuclear fall out of Fukushima consistently spoils the food and water supply of China and irradiates it’s people continuously for four months. And this started and goes on unabashed for four months now and is not showing any signs of stopping any time soon. Because four months ago — when the triple nuclear meltdown disaster occurred — China warned Japan to cover the plant up in a mountain of cement and boric acid and silica with a lead shield cover. This is what the Environmental Parliament originally had also advised Japan to do immediately…
Yet this hasn’t happened yet and China gets angry and the Red army antsy.
Because Japan has been misleading the world and it’s citizens about the goings on inside it’s nuclear industry for decades and to this day the truth about Fukushima is not yet entrusted to the public.
The direction of the nuclear fall out and the vast melt down cover ups are legion but the problem has now been externalized fully.
As a matter of fact more and more deception is revealed daily in Japan and that worries China mightily. Same as it should be worrying the US – the other suffering big neighbour across the Pacific.
Bellow is a sampler of the ways the criminality in the nuclear industry permeated to the highest levels of government and industry.:
Even a decade ago the issues of Fukushima were covered up. Way back on September of 2002, TEPCO admitted to covering up data concerning cracks in critical circulation pipes in Fukushima in addition to previously revealed falsifications.
In their analysis of the cover-up, The Japanese Citizen’s Nuclear Information Center writes: “The records that were covered up had to do with cracks in parts of the reactor known as recirculation pipes. These pipes are there to siphon off heat from the reactor. If these pipes were to fracture, it would result in a serious accident in which coolant leaks out. From the perspective of safety, these are highly important pieces of equipment. Cracks were found in the Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant, reactor one, reactor two, reactor three, reactor four, reactor five.” The cracks in the pipes were not due to earthquake damage; they came from the simple wear and tear of long-term usage.
On March 2, nine days before the meltdown, the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) gave TEPCO a warning on its failure to inspect critical pieces of equipment at the plant, which included the recirculation pumps. TEPCO was ordered to make the inspections, perform repairs if needed and give a report to the NISA on June 2. The report is not confirmed to have been filed as of this time.
The problems were not only with the piping. Gas tanks at the site also exploded after the earthquake. The outside of the reactor building suffered structural damage. There was some chaos. There was no one really qualified to assess the radioactive leakage because, as the Nuclear Industrial Safety Agency admits, after the accident all the on-site inspectors fled the site. And the quake and tsunami broke most of the monitoring equipment so there was little information available on radiation afterwards.
Before the dawn on March 12, the water levels at the reactor began to plummet and the radiation began rising. Meltdown was taking place. The TEPCO Press release issued on March 12 just past 4am stated, “the pressure within the containment vessel is high but stable.” There was a note buried in the release that many people missed. “The emergency water circulation system was cooling the steam within the core; it has ceased to function.”
According to the Chunichi Shinbun news paper, and other sources, a few hours after the earthquake extremely high levels of radiation were being measured within the reactor one building. The levels were so high that if you spent half an hour exposed — it would certainly be fatal.
And by the way, the water levels of the reactor were already sinking bellow melt down levels.
After the Japanese government forced TEPCO to release hundreds of pages of documents relating to the accident, it was reported that a radiation alarm went off 1.5 kilometers from the number one reactor on March 11 at 3:29 p.m., several minutes before the tsunami reached the plant – meaning that the earthquake had caused the meltdown already before the tsunami hit the plant. Tellingly, TEPCO would not deny the possibility that there was significant radiation leakage before the power went out due to the tsunami. However as a sign of their malfeasance they did assert that the alarm might have simply malfunctioned.
On March 11, at 9:51 p.m., under the CEO’s orders, the inside of the reactor building was declared a no-entry zone. Around 11 p.m., radiation levels for the inside of the turbine building, which was next door to the reactor, reached hourly levels of 0.5 to 1.2 mSv. The meltdown was already well underway.
Oddly enough, while TEPCO later insisted that the cause of the meltdown was the tsunami knocking out emergency power systems, at the 7:47 p.m. TEPCO press conference the same day, the spokesman in response to questions from the press about the cooling systems stated that the emergency water circulation equipment and reactor core isolation time cooling systems would work even without electricity.
Sometime between 4 and 6 a.m. on March 12, Masao Yoshida, the plant manager decided it was time to pump seawater into the reactor core and notified TEPCO. Seawater was not pumped in until hours after a hydrogen explosion occurred, roughly 8:00 p.m. that day. By then, it was probably already too late.
On May 15, TEPCO went some way toward admitting at least some of these claims in a report called “Reactor Core Status of Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station Unit One.” The report said there might have been pre-tsunami damage to key facilities including pipes. “This means that assurances from the industry in Japan and overseas that the reactors were robust is now blown apart,” said Shaun Burnie, an independent nuclear waste consultant. “It raises fundamental questions on all reactors in high seismic risk areas.”
As Burnie points out, TEPCO also admitted massive fuel melt –16 hours after loss of coolant, and 7-8 hours before the explosion in unit 1. “Since they must have known all this – their decision to flood with massive water volumes would guarantee massive additional contamination – including leaks to the ocean.”
No one knows exactly how much damage was done to the plant by the quake, or if this damage alone would account for the meltdown.
However, eyewitness testimony and TEPCO’S own data indicates that the damage was significant. All of this despite the fact that shaking experienced at the plant during the quake was within it’s approved design specifications. Says Hasuike: “What really happened at the Fukushima Daiicihi Nuclear Power Plant to cause a meltdown?
The Environmental Parliament asks the Prime Minister Mr Naoto Khan to tell the truth now. Or else step down immediately.
Because the Prime Minister Naoto Kan, Tokyo Electric Power Company, the National Nuclear Regulator and the government of Japan have provided many explanations about the disaster that don’t make any sense.
The one thing they haven’t provided yet is the truth.
We think, it’s high time that they did just that.
Yours,
Pano
PS:
Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan said today that the future of Japan has to be away from nuclear…
He really said this — but it sounded contrived and forced like a white wash PR ploy for reelection.
It was a half hearted attempt as a Strategic reaction to the public sentiment and the reality of how unsafe the nuclear industry is, and how full of criminality in it’s dealings with truth, with the people and government — always has been.
However he has lost any credibility he had left over his many wafflings and his cozy ties with the nuclear industry. So now best he goes to private practice and let the place free for the new generation of popular leaders who really believe the will of the people has to be respected and who will make a timetable to shutter the nuclear industry for good.
Because the very fact that nuclear represents almost 40% of the baseload energy of Japan — it’s replacement with renewables will clearly create general economic growth and a fantastic growth industry for this new high technology sector. Something the new leaders understand well and see the growth ahead.
This is the only way forward and Japan can learn the same lesson — like Germany has done who now will enshrine this decision in it’s very Constitution. The German people want to do this as a way to protect future generations from the ravages of nuclear energy production and it’s associated meltdowns and inevitable fall out disasters…
Disasters like the unstoppable triple meltdown going on in Fukushima right now and radiating your very own food and the water you drink right now as you read this lines.
Cheers.
