Takashi Hirose Who Has Pressed Criminal Charges Against Government, TEPCO: "We remain unaware, we just want to believe everything is OK"

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Journalists Takashi Hirose and Shojiro Akashi announced at a press conference on July 15 that they had pressed criminal charges against 32 people including TEPCO management, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and Fukushima's Radiation Health Risk Advisors including Shunichi Yamashita.

17 people are charged with "bodily injury through negligence in the conduct of occupation", including Dr. Shunichi Yamashita, Fukushima's Radiation Health Risk Advisor, Ms. Shizuyo Kusumi, member of Nuclear Safety Commission of Japan and specialist in radiation
biology, and Mr. Yoshiaki Takagi, Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and some other specialists in radiation.

15 people are charged with "death through negligence in the conduct of occupation", including Chairman Katsumata and Ex-President Shimizu from TEPCO, and Dr. Haruki Madarame, Nuclear Safety Commission Chief.

During the press conference on July 15 (youtube video here), Mr. Hirose, who has written extensively about nuclear energy and radiation issues for 30 years, had some shocking revelations regarding Fukushima, in addition to his sharp criticism of the government and the government researchers who have been preaching "safety up to 100 millisieverts". He said:
  • Teachers at Fukushima Prefecture's public schools literally force children to eat food that has high probability of being contaminated with radiation (such as shiitake mushrooms and bamboo shoots); and

  • Fish caught off Fukushima are being sold all over Japan as they are re-routed to ports far away from Fukushima, and people are eating them thinking they were caught in the safe (radiation-free) water.

All part of the "safety myth" that the government has successfully created since the accident, and he says "we remain unaware, we just want to believe everything is OK, and live each day."

Reality is too harsh, and betrayal by their own government is even harder to accept.

From his July 15 press conference:

広瀬:皆さんご存知の通り、事故が、3月11日に大地震が起こって事故がその日から始まりまして、でその20日からですね、長崎大学の山下俊一なる人物をですね、放射線健康リスク管理アドバイザーに迎えて、その翌日からもう安全宣伝のキャンペーンを始めて、それから4月に入りまして広島大学の神谷研二、それから長崎大学の高村昇も同じアドバイザーになって、この三人が揃って「100mSvまでは安全」とくり返して児童の被曝を強要させてきた。このことで彼らは全国から批判を浴びているわけですけれど、それは犯罪ではないんだろうかということをはっきりさせたいんですね。

Hirose: As you all know, the [Fukushima nuclear] accident started right after the earthquake hit on March 11. Then on March 20, one Shunichi Yamashita, of Nagasaki University, was installed as the radiation health risk management advisor. Right next day he started the campaign to preach "safety". Then in April, Kenji Kamiya of Hiroshima University and Noboru Takamura of Nagasaki University joined Yamashita as advisors. These three people have repeatedly said "It's safe up to 100 millisieverts", forcing children to be exposed to radiation. Now they are being criticized by citizens all over the country, but I want to make it clear that what they've done is criminal.

福島県では、こないだ聞いたんですが、学校で子どもたちがお父さんやお母さんが意識の高い方が子どもに「シイタケやタケノコが給食に出たら食べちゃいけないよ」といって、それで子どもが学校に行ってそれを取り分けると先生が来て「食え!」っていって食わせるんだそうです。ぞっとするんじゃないですか、皆さん。え? こんなこと今起こってるんですよ、日本で。え? どうするんですか、こんなこと。それやらせてんの山下でしょう。背後にいるんでしょう。さっきおっしゃったように、文部科学省がいるからこんなことになるんでしょう。どうしてこんなことほっとくんですか日本人は。子どもたちをみんなで殺してるんじゃないですか。許せないですよこれは。

I heard this story in Fukushima the other day. Informed parents tell their children, "Don't eat shiitake mushroom or bamboo shoot in the school lunch." So, the children take them aside. But then the teacher comes and orders them, "Eat!" Horrible, isn't it? This is what's happening now in Japan, you see. What are we going to do? Yamashita is behind this, isn't he? As someone said, this is happening because we have the Ministry of Education and Science. Why are we allowing this to happen? It's like killing our own children. I cannot allow it to happen.

質問:放射線核種でセシウムとかそういうのばかりが新聞をにぎわしてますが、やはり一番怖いのはプルトニウムだと思うんですが、その被害について、たとえば劣化ウラン弾の被害が出ているようなイラクだとかではプルトニウムとかのα線の被害が多いと思うのですが、この辺のことについてはどのようにお考えか。

(Question: In the media we hear a lot about radioactive cesium, but I think the most dangerous is plutonium. What do you think of the damage from the alpha-radiation from plutonium? In places like Iraq, there are damages from depleted uranium.)

広瀬:私はプルトニウムより今怖いのはストロンチウムだと思っています。これはセシウムとほぼ同量が原子炉の中にあったはずですし、それがほとんど出ていないというのは検出していないだけであって、とくに海洋に流れた海に流れているのはとてつもない量だと思います。だからそういうことで言いましても、今の状況で、何がどこにあるか私自身もわかんないです。で、とくに魚の場合は、福島に今回行ってほんとにわかったんですけど、もう日本中に流通しているんです。そういったものが九州に流れてるんですね。九州や何かで買ったり、そういうとんでもないところで買って、それを西日本の人は安心して食べてるわけです。だから今私もう、何が起こっているかはっきりいってわかりません。ただわれわれは何にも意識もなく、大丈夫と思いたくて、生きてるだけなんだろうな。現実派ですよ。今そういう状況です、はい。

I think strontium is more dangerous than plutonium right now. Strontium should have existed inside the reactor in about the same amount as cesium. It is hardly detected, but that just means it hasn't been measured. I suspect the amount of strontium that has leaked into the ocean is enormous. So, under the current situation, I have no idea what is where. Talking about fish, as I discovered this time in Fukushima, fish [caught off the coast of Fukushima] are sold all over Japan. They are being re-routed to Kyushu, for example. People in the western Japan are eating these fish, thinking they are safe. Honestly speaking, I haven't a clue what's going on. I suspect we remain unaware, we just want to believe everything is OK, and live each day. That's the reality. That's how it goes.

... and everybody knows.

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking
Everybody knows that the captain lied
Everybody got this broken feeling
Like their father or their dog just died

Everybody talking to their pockets
Everybody wants a box of chocolates
And a long stem rose
Everybody knows

(Leonard Cohen)

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Congressional "leaders" will present the plan -- that will surely have the left and the right moaning and groaning -- tomorrow. Three cheers for our loathsome Congressional "leaders" for taking us down this absurd path.
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Professor Kodama's testimony in Japan's Lower House committee is now available in 4 languages, thanks to the readers of this blog.

To recap, Professor Tatsuhiko Kodama is the head of the Radioisotope Center at the University of Tokyo. On July 27, he appeared as a witness to give testimony to the Committee on Welfare and Labor in Japan's Lower House in the Diet on the government's response so far to the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant accident and the resultant radiation contamination.

Please share his passionate speech in:

Japanese with English subtitle in video:

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/video-with-english-caption-professor.html

English (in text in 3 parts):

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/professor-tatsuhiko-kodama-of-tokyo.html
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/part-2-professor-tatsuhiko-kodama-of.html
http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/07/part-3-professor-tatsuhiko-kodama-of.html

French (in text in 3 parts, by Helios):

http://bistrobarblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/politiciens-du-japon-que-faites-vous-13.html
http://bistrobarblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/politiciens-du-japon-que-faites-vous-23.html
http://bistrobarblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/politiciens-du-japon-que-faites-vous-33.html

German (subtitle in video, by Viola):

Part 1: http://youtu.be/PDOBKu8P-DE
Part 2: http://youtu.be/XefmvjI7Mk4
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#Fukushima Contaminated Water Treatment System: Hitachi's Desalination Unit Leak was from PVC Hose

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Probably the same ubiquitous orange PVC hose at Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant. The PVC hose is used to transport highly-concentrated saltwater from the desalination unit to the temporary storage tank, and the leak is considered to be due to the deterioration of the hose, after 1 month of use.

From Yomiuri Shinbun (7/31/2011):

東京電力は31日、福島第一原子力発電所の汚染水処理システムから、放射性物質を除去処理した後の塩水が、推定で約50リットル漏出したと発表した。

TEPCO announced on July 31 that about 50 liters of saltwater leaked from the contaminated water treatment system. Radioactive materials had already been removed from the water.

 塩化ビニール製の配管の劣化が原因とみられ、未明の地震による影響は考えにくいという。

According to TEPCO, the leak was probably due to the deterioration of the PVC hose used, and not the earthquake that hit the area in early morning.

 水漏れが起きたのは、処理後の水から塩分を取り除く「淡水化装置」から、副産物としてできる高濃度の塩水をタンクへ送る配管。同日午前10時50分ごろ作業員が発見し、30分後に装置を停止。配管を交換後、午後3時すぎに復旧した。原子炉への注水には支障はなかったという。

The leak was found at the hose that transports the highly-concentrated saltwater from the desalination unit to the storage tank. A worker found the leak at 10:50AM on July 31, and stopped the unit 30 minutes later. The PVC hose was exchanged, and the unit was back online at 3PM. The company said there was no interruption to water injection in the reactors.

 また午前8時13分ごろには、4号機の使用済み燃料一時貯蔵プールに水を送るホースから真水が霧状に漏れているのが見つかり、ホースを交換した。

Also, at 8:13AM, [a worker found] the hose that sends water to the Spent Fuel Pool of Reactor 4 was leaking, spraying water in fine mist. The hose was replaced.

These hoses are probably Kanaflex, which the manufacturer rushes to make and deliver to TEPCO as fast as possible.

So how salty is this water coming out of the desalination unit by Hitachi that made the hose deteriorate badly in slightly over a month?

From TEPCO's information on July 15, before the desalination (by reverse osmosis) the chlorine concentration is 8,000 ppm. After the desalination, this number drops to 19 ppm.

So, the saltwater that goes through the PVC pipe has 7,981 ppm chlorine.

Another one to file under the "things don't add up" category. Initially, TEPCO had blamed just about every leak to the sloppy job by the workers. Now the company hints at the poor quality of the PVC hose. Is it really the case, or is there still some information to be forthcoming later?

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Liberals are all of sudden whining as if this hasn't been going on for weeks. Hello. For weeks it's been reported that Boehner's plan and Reid's were pretty similar and both have spending cuts. For weeks it's been reported that revenues would only be part of a larger deal, the one Obama wanted, not a smaller deal. Now people are realizing that raising the debt ceiling also means cuts? Hello again. Democrats lost the minute they let republicans tie raising the debt ceiling to spending cuts. Most Americans wrongly believed -- thanks to the excellent salesmanship by the republicans -- that raising the debt ceiling meant raising the debt. It's too late now. If you're a republican and the choice is default -- which you know POTUS will avoid -- versus getting everything you want, you're going eat the whole pie.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (R-Nev.) instructed senators to stay close to the Capitol Sunday afternoon as congressional leaders and President Obama furiously negotiated a deal to raise the nation's debt ceiling. The Hill
Where we're at:
House leaders in both parties have their work cut out if they hope to pass a debt-ceiling package being finalized by the White House and Senate Republicans.

Although the details of the agreement are still emerging, early reports indicate it includes contentious provisions sure to alienate both conservative Republicans and liberal Democrats.

If both the left and right flanks of the lower chamber unite in opposition, it would fall to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to forge a more centrist, bipartisan coalition to get the bill across the finish line – just as they did to cobble together support for the unpopular Wall Street bailout in 2008.
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The poll on Meet the Press this morning said it all: 74% of Americans want a balanced budget, but they don't want cuts to their programs.
That pretty much explains why we're in this mess -- Americans want what they want but they don't want to pay for it. That's why Americans bought houses they couldn't afford. That's why they used their homes like an ATM machine. That's why they got into debt up to their eyeballs.
That's why Americans think you can have a balanced budget without reforms to Social Security and Medicare -- which account for a huge chunk of the budget.
Tom Brokaw is dead-on on how we got here. "The whole country was in on this." Americans have yet to accept their fair share of the blame. They're still shaking their fists at Wall Street and blaming everyone else.
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Congratulations to Jules!

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