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In reply to the discussion: What's happening at Fukushima? [View all]Octafish
(55,745 posts)55. Thank you, L0oniX!
Great information there. I used to add several Japanese newspapers that were trying. Since then, what they print is officially censored, turning TEPCOs dreams of controlling the story into reality:
''We never meant to conceal the information, but it never occurred to us to make it public.''
An example of just how lowly the world's corporate elite consider the 99-percent...

NUCLEAR CRISIS: HOW IT HAPPENED
Government radiation data disclosure--too little, too late
The Yomiuri Shimbun
June 11, 2011
EXCERPT...
At 8:39 a.m. on March 12, about 18 hours after the earthquake, radioactive tellurium-132 was detected in Namiemachi, Fukushima Prefecture, six kilometers from Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s damaged plant, according to the report from the agency.
The detection of Te-132 meant the temperature of nuclear fuel at the plant had shot up to more than 1,000 C. It also meant nuclear fuel pellets in the reactor cores had been damaged and nuclear material had leaked into the environment.
Seven hours later, a massive hydrogen explosion rocked the plant's No. 1 reactor.
Attempting to explain the delay in making the information public, agency spokesman Hidehiko Nishiyama said later, "We never meant to conceal the information, but it never occurred to us to make it public."
A side note on National Geographic channel:
News Corp is the majority owner of the National Geographic Channel, but our Society still maintains complete editorial control uh, right, Maryanne?
http://societymatters.org/2011/04/27/news-corp-is-the-majority-owner-of-the-national-geographic-channel-but-our-society-still-maintains-complete-editorial-control-uh-right-maryanne/
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"... worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl." I'd call it worse than Chernobyl, but I'm no expert.
Scuba
Oct 2014
#19
If Sun Tzu were alive, he'd figure out a way to use that radioactive water to kill the ebola virus
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2014
#16
The OP has literally claimed that the radiation traveled backwards through time.
jeff47
Oct 2014
#65
Because the OP has demonstrated repeatedly he doesn't know what he's talking about.
NuclearDem
Oct 2014
#91
The one good thing about Fukedupshima (if there is such) is that it apparently has convinced
nationalize the fed
Oct 2014
#41
ENEnews is a propaganda outlet that makes anti-nuclear activists look like loons.
hunter
Oct 2014
#102