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Octafish

(55,745 posts)
4. TEPCO Rose is just the official to tell its official story like.
Mon Apr 27, 2015, 04:56 PM
Apr 2015

This nice Lady Barbara Judge, a former SEC lawyer and now UK regulator and aristocrat extraordinaire, wants to keep the world safe for nuclear power.



The mood at Fukushima Daiichi is "fantastic."



Lady Barbara Judge: Japan's smart nuclear weapon

The head of the UK's Pension Protection Fund has been drafted in to help assure the residents of Fukushima that its reactors are safe

MARGARETA PAGANO
The Independent (UK) SUNDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2013

Lady Barbara Judge is just back from inspecting the nuclear plants at Fukushima in Japan, the ones closed down after the devastating earthquake and tsunami two years ago. She visited the control rooms at Daiichi – plant one – where three of the reactors went into meltdown and met many of the men who risked their lives by working during the emergency to cool the over-heated reactors and eventually shut them down.

It's not what she expected but the mood there was " fantastic". "What was astonishing was the optimism and hope shown by the workers that these plants can be made safe, and that they can start operating again," she says. But this was in stark contrast to the mood of the Japanese public, still in a state of shock and strongly opposed to the restoration of the nuclear programme.

Already being hailed as Japan's nuclear saviour, Lady Judge was in Fukushima with the bosses of the plants' owner, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), which was criticised for its bungled reaction to the catastrophe. It's her first trip since being appointed deputy chairman of Tepco's new Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee, set up after the disaster to propose a new self-regulatory structure for the industry. If all goes well, Tepco hopes to persuade the new government – said to be more favourable than the last – to restart two of the plants later this year.

SNIP...

It's her long experience of Britain's nuclear industry that attracted the Japanese, who rarely bring in outsiders, let alone a woman. Lady Judge's credentials go back to 2002 when she became a director of the UK's Atomic Energy Authority, and was then chairman for six years until 2010. She is still closely involved with the industry so, a few days after returning from Fukushima, was able to take Tepco executives to the West Midlands' Oldbury site to show how it has been decommissioned using the strictest safety protocols.

SNIP...

Yet there's one group of people who stay stubbornly anti-nuclear – women, especially the more educated ones. Wherever you are in the world, she says, all the focus groups show that it's better-off women who don't trust fission.

CONTINUED...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/analysis-and-features/lady-barbara-judge-japans-smart-nuclear-weapon-8497747.html



It seems that government service in the United States can open doors to [s]money[/s] opportunity in the United Kingdom. From the comment section at e-news we learn:



weeman
February 17, 2013 at 10:29 am

Tokyo Rose I have named her, just like the second world war the propaganda machine is on full spin cycle and we all know the false lies that they promote and brainwashing of populace.

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Time Is Short
February 18, 2013 at 2:09 pm

Here's a big reason she was brought in:

'Radioactive Asia: There Will Be 100 Additional Nuclear Reactors in Asia in 20 Years'

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2013/02/radioactive-asia-there-will-be-100.html

If she's working for those that control the majority of the uranium mining/processing, you can see the money involved.

Can't let the murder of 8 billion people get in the way of third-quarter profits, can we?

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Sickputer
February 16, 2013 at 9:20 pm

Her track record has not always been so cheery:

April 23, 2010

"WASHINGTON—Massey Energy Co., owner of a coal mine where 29 workers were killed this month, on Monday said that the board member responsible for governance had resigned because of the demands of "other ongoing business activities."

Lady Barbara Thomas Judge's resignation, effective immediately, comes amid growing criticism of the management of the Richmond, Virginia, company. For months, shareholders had complained that Lady Judge was unable to devote enough time to the job because she served on too many corporate boards. The complaints about Massey's corporate governance intensified after a coal-mine explosion two weeks ago that was the deadliest in 40 years."

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703757504575195070711065984.html

Another article in 2007:

"But questions remain. Why does Lady Judge need so many jobs? How did she land her role at the UK Atomic Energy Authority, when she had no relevant experience? Is it relevant that a female friend was on the selection panel?
Lady Judge bristles. She points out that, as a lawyer, it is her job to master a subject about which she is initially ignorant. To prepare for her role at the Atomic Energy Authority, she even studied her son's physics books. She also has a strategic business role, which she is well equipped to carry out.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-452635/Is-best-connected-woman-Britain



The monied class have zero compunction about irradiating the Northern Hemisphere, the Southern Hemisphere or any which way they slice up their planet and protect their loot with the nukes We the People have so kindly paid for.



If they got the money to roll out the highest price PR person on the planet, there's somethign that's making somebody some big bucks. Cause it's nuclear, We the People get the added benefit of paying for their piratizatios. It's getting apparent that us renters are SOL.

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Beware of pro-nuke people [View all] RobertEarl Apr 2015 OP
obsolete technology - too many people making $$ from it and trying to save it nt msongs Apr 2015 #1
True. We could use a magnifying glass to boil water and have it turn turbines. Octafish Apr 2015 #11
Beware the Jabberwock, my son! n/t Silent3 Apr 2015 #2
An ally of mine wrote this RobertEarl Apr 2015 #7
ENE news is in the same vein as Natural News.. Feron Apr 2015 #8
You haven't read it much? RobertEarl Apr 2015 #9
As for habitat loss RobertEarl Apr 2015 #16
You're an ecologist, and think N. American habitat is doing well? Really? NickB79 Apr 2015 #20
Thank you RobertEarl Apr 2015 #22
"Audubon.....financed by elites such as nuke power industries" NickB79 Apr 2015 #29
Nice try RobertEarl Apr 2015 #31
Okay, whatever dude. LeftyMom Apr 2015 #3
That's all you got? RobertEarl Apr 2015 #5
Is that really the same guy? NutmegYankee Apr 2015 #19
My advice? RobertEarl Apr 2015 #30
Appears to be. LeftyMom Apr 2015 #32
TEPCO Rose is just the official to tell its official story like. Octafish Apr 2015 #4
Recommended. nt Zorra Apr 2015 #6
There are plenty of valid, factual, scientific reasons to be against nukes hobbit709 Apr 2015 #10
You forgot the dolphins in the Atlantic who have been irradiated by Fukushima. zappaman Apr 2015 #12
I forgot, I busy with 4:20. hobbit709 Apr 2015 #13
To repeat RobertEarl Apr 2015 #18
It seems I can say the same to anti-nuke people NobodyHere Apr 2015 #24
Sure you can RobertEarl Apr 2015 #27
Heh RobertEarl Apr 2015 #14
Forget all about your claims of what was causing the melting starfish? hobbit709 Apr 2015 #15
No. I stand behind it, totally RobertEarl Apr 2015 #17
Because sea star wasting disease dates back to 1942, before we even invented nukes NickB79 Apr 2015 #23
Nice try RobertEarl Apr 2015 #26
Scientifically lacking is your shtick in trade. hobbit709 Apr 2015 #33
Accuse them? RobertEarl Apr 2015 #34
That genie is out of the bottle...waaaaaaaaaaaaaayyy out there somewhere by now. Rex Apr 2015 #21
How to stop it? RobertEarl Apr 2015 #25
True, that is assuming most people care to deal with pollution. Which I do not see. Rex Apr 2015 #28
1981 RobertEarl Apr 2015 #35
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