The Japan based Tokyo Electric Company's (TEPCO) 3 nuclear reactors which were the subject of the greatest kind of drama anyone could imagine experienced a complete meltdown, probably within hours of the tsunami that threw the power plant into chaos. In what was being touted as a slow motion near-disaster, the resolution for which could come at any time averting complete mayhem was in fact the worst case scenario right from the very beginning.
Energy Company deceit has no borders. Just because this nuclear disaster occurred in what is arguably the most humble country on the planet has no bearing whatever on whether or not details can be fudged, slanted, and even sanitized for press releases by corporate wealth mongers as it would be in the least responsible, most corrupt nation imaginable. Energy Corp is evil, it's just that simple.
The announcement will not change plans for how to stabilize the Fukushima Daiichi plant, the agency said.
Reactors 1, 2 and 3 experienced a full meltdown, it said.
The plant's owner, Tokyo Electric Power Co., admitted last month that nuclear fuel rods in reactors 2 and 3 probably melted during the first week of the nuclear crisis.
It had already said fuel rods at the heart of reactor No. 1 melted almost completely in the first 16 hours after the disaster struck. The remnants of that core are now sitting in the bottom of the reactor pressure vessel at the heart of the unit and that vessel is now believed to be leaking.
They probably knew all of this while they were re-spinning the story in real time. And the whole time you were watching those explosions on television thinking to yourself, "really? this isn't a meltdown? they might actual salvage this?" ... your skepticism was completely valid and now vindicated. You were watching a full scale nuclear disaster live and in color. And somehow your instincts told you so.
It's almost sickening to think that in the country that indeed does have the most heightened sense of responsiblity to the environment and to job and country, the wealth poachers at Tokyo Electric are even considering accepting the offer by aging volunteers to finish the job started by younger citizens strictly out of their sense of duty. They believe that it was their generation that pushed the use of these disastrous failures now wreaking havoc on an entire country. So, they feel, it should be they that give their lives to stop the disaster, not the youth of the country who must live on to clean up this filthy greed bomb.
"My generation, the old generation, promoted the nuclear plants. If we don't take responsibility, who will?"
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"When we were younger, we never thought of death. But death becomes familiar as we get older. "We have a feeling that death is waiting for us. This doesn't mean I want to die. But we become less afraid of death, as we get older." Sasaki also says a 30-year old exposed to radiation at the crippled plant might get cancer at 35 or 40. At her age, she'd be 75 or 80, and might have gotten cancer anyway, she says.
So...trust your instincts. Even when someone accuses you of being some kind of a conspiracy theorist, or chicken little ... when you get a sense that something is very wrong even though everyone is assuring you it's just fine. The world is full of liars most of which have a lot of money and a great deal of control over almost everything.
You thought you knew it. Now you know you knew.