Newsflash: Fukushima Is Still a Disaster

[marmar]

from truthdig:


Newsflash: Fukushima Is Still a Disaster

Posted on Jun 3, 2014
By Harvey Wasserman


The corporate media silence on Fukushima has been deafening even though the melted-down nuclear power plant’s seaborne radiation is now washing up on American beaches.

Ever more radioactive water continues to pour into the Pacific.

At least three extremely volatile fuel assemblies are stuck high in the air at Unit 4. Three years after the March 11, 2011, disaster, nobody knows exactly where the melted cores from Units 1, 2 and 3 might be.

Amid a dicey cleanup infiltrated by organized crime, still more massive radiation releases are a real possibility at any time.

Radioactive groundwater washing through the complex is enough of a problem that Fukushima Daiichi owner Tepco has just won approval for a highly controversial ice wall to be constructed around the crippled reactor site. No wall of this scale and type has ever been built, and this one might not be ready for two years. Widespread skepticism has erupted surrounding its potential impact on the stability of the site and on the huge amounts of energy necessary to sustain it. Critics also doubt it would effectively guard the site from flooding and worry it could cause even more damage should power fail. ...............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/newsflash_fukushima_is_still_a_disaster_20140603

[flamingdem]

1. yawn

the Pacific Ocean will die shortly and we will learn not to eat anymore seafood ... we'll get used to it.

[JEB]

2. K&R

[90-percent]

3. The fix is easy

Make it illegal to cover Fukashima in any media. Honestly, I think the Japanese government has already made moves in this direction!

-90% Jimmy

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. Japan secrecy act stirs fears about press freedom, right to know

Thu Oct 24, 2013

(Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's government is planning a state secrets act that critics say could curtail public access to information on a wide range of issues, including tensions with China and the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

The new law would dramatically expand the definition of official secrets and journalists convicted under it could be jailed for up to five years.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/25/us-japan-secrecy-idUSBRE99N1EC20131025

[xchrom]

6. du rec.

[hunter]

7. MUFASA! MUFASA!

Mufasa is fossil fuels.

Not so authoritarian and nasty as Scar?

I don't think so.