Fukushima: They Knew - by Greg Palast

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Fukushima: They Knew

Thursday, November 10, 2011
"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"
The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN

by Greg Palast
for FreePress.org

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Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant:


Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. . . . In fact, the plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earth- quake. The team of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components could "completely and utterly fail" during an earthquake.

"Utterly fail during an earthquake." And here in Japan was the quake and here is the utter failure.


The warning was in what the investigations team called The Notebook, which I'm not supposed to have. Good thing I've kept a copy anyway, because the file cabinets went down with my office building .

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On March 12 this year, as I watched Fukushima melt, I knew: the "SQ" had been faked. Anderson Cooper said it would all be OK. He'd flown to Japan, to suck up the radiation and official company bullshit. The horror show was not the fault of Tokyo Electric, he said, because the plant was built to withstand only an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale, and this was 9.0. Anderson must have been in the gym when they handed out the facts. The 9.0 shake was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 90 miles away. It was barely a tenth of that power at Fukushima.

MUCH MORE:
http://www.gregpalast.com/completely-and-utterly-fail-in-an-earthquake/