Fukushima "accident" is being reported like...the BP.. " oil spill."...

[Stuart G]

The government of Japan is reporting this like BP and much of the media reported the "oil spill"..
Fukushima was no accident..
It was a series of "explosions" at more than one nuclear reactor . Why? because planners did not forsee the
possibility of what happened....( possibility of a very very bad earthquake and tsunami in an area prone to earthquakes]..Clearly the electric company and the designer tried to save money on the project by cutting safety precausions..(in a project as big as a number of nuclear reacters clustered together...additional safety is extraordinarily expensive..hundreds of millions more, maybe billions..)
Yet that possibility was clear and some designers even quit the design because of that possibility. The government and the media are/ have been.. underestimating the problem.
.. Today, that may have changed. Yes, they are doing everything they can do..and what else is there to do, when there was such poor planning for this?..Now there is some talk that
the only way to stop radiation is to bury the place in sand and cement.... That would take weeks, ..... ..
.and I sure hope that I am wrong on this... that it would take weeks....I hope it takes only days or hours..


BP knew that an explosion was possible, by drilling as deep as one can drill in the gulf.. yet tried to save money on the project by cutting safety precautions. (not new for BP)
The media presented this as an accident and "oil spill" for a long time.. Not a result of very poor planning and cost cutting..It was a worst case "explosion that killed"..that could have been prevented with more safety planning..The media and BP totally underestimated the problem ... After some time, with failed efforts, it became clear that it was going to take weeks to stop, and in the end, it would take a relief well.
..But the media showed all kinds of efforts to stop the leak..
It was stopped by a relief well ..many weeks after the "explosion" Damage is still being found.

[msongs]

1. Japan Inc is trying not to admit liability that could be used against it in court nt

[Stuart G]

2. Yea, it is about "liability" and "court damages".. like Exon Valdez..nt

[CountAllVotes]

3. same scenario different country

Greed is not unique to the United States. We see it everywhere, including Japan. Damn these crooks! They belong in jail!


:dem: :kick:

[Stuart G]

4. Greed is at the bottom of both.

If as much money was spent to prevent ........ as the amount of money to make more money..
... both would have been prevented.

There was no way to prevent an earthquake, or tsunami,
... but a nuclear exposion, due to insufficient colling...or explosion at a deep sea oil rig..
......well those could have been prevented.

[sam kane]

5. Past Tense. Oil spill=over & Accident=over

Insinuating that this catastrophe isn't still in progress, just like they called it a spill as oil was gushing into the ocean. An accident is in the past, like when you accidentally hit a car or spill some milk.

[Stuart G]

6. This catastrophe is on going..and will be on going

the media, the government of Japan, and those that support the companies and their profits, will do everything possible to minimize this event. Don't put anything past them..
There is so much money at stake here, that the big money boys, from everywhere, will try (and succeed to some extent) to make it past tense,all that has to be done is.. just the clean up.
And it was an accident that could "not".. have been, "forseen" as someone said. All for money, and lots of it.

[Aerows]

7. Good point n/t

[Stuart G]

9. This thread, in this forum..if one reads it.

shows how bad things are really..

Posted by Poll_Blind

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=681355&mesg_id=681355

Company official cries about what happens.

That shame..is sign, that it is.... much worse than was reported. Please read that first post by Poll_Blind, and you will see a quote from the Daily Mail that really nails what has happened ...very very sad.

[robdogbucky]

8. And the "legal" protection for these business interests comes from?

the courts, or I should say, from the likes of Scalia and Starr. Yup, that Scalia and that Starr.


At California Nuclear Plant, Earthquake Response Plan Not Required

As the world's attention remains focused on the nuclear calamity unfolding in Japan, American nuclear regulators and industry lobbyists have been offering assurances that plants in the United States are designed to withstand major earthquakes.

But the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, which sits less than a mile from an offshore fault line, was not required to include earthquakes in its emergency response plan as a condition of being granted its license more than a quarter of a century ago. Though experts warned from the beginning that the plant would be vulnerable to an earthquake, asserting 25 years ago that it required an emergency plan as a condition of its license, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission fought against making such a provision mandatory as it allowed the facility to be built.

Officials at Pacific Gas and Electric Company, the utility that operates Diablo Canyon, did not respond to calls seeking comment before the story was published. After publication, a spokesman for the company said the plant does have an earthquake procedure that had been implemented during a 2003 earthquake near the facility, and that staff are trained to respond. The company did not provide further details upon request.

As Americans absorb the spectacle of a potential nuclear meltdown in Japan -- one of the world's most proficient engineering powers -- the regulatory review that ultimately enabled Diablo Canyon to be built without an earthquake response plan amplifies a gnawing question: Could the tragedy in Japan happen at home?


http://m.aol.com/portal/file-01.do?file=N9992%2FN4133%2FN512344133%2Ftnsc-372415489.html


"...The case made its way to the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., where a 5-4 majority -- including current Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and former Clinton independent counsel Kenneth Starr -- ruled that earthquakes did not have to be included in the plant's emergency response plans..."



Did their careers benefit from such decisions? We ask, you decide.


Is it fascism yet?


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Lying on the floor
I'm just trying to do my jig-saw puzzle
Before it rains anymore..."

Jagger/Richards


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