Leaking Fukushima Daiichi Complex Owner: Radiation May End Up Exceeding Chernobyl.....

Leaking Fukushima Daiichi Complex Owner: Radiation May End Up Exceeding Chernobyl.....

Tepco is finally admitting what has been obvious for some time: that Fukushima could end up being worse than Chernobyl.
As Reuters notes:

The operator of Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant said on Tuesday that they are concerned that the radiation leakage could eventually exceed that of the 1986 Chernobyl nuclear disaster.

"The radiation leak has not stopped completely and our concern is that it could eventually exceed Chernobyl," an official from operator Tokyo Electric and Power told reporters on Tuesday..

Japan prime minister's nuclear adviser resigns, saying the government had ignored his advice and failed to follow the law.

Corporate and government-funded media not telling the truth about Japan crisis
The Japanese corporate- and government-run major media in Japan is downplaying the bad news on the earthquakes and nuclear radiation disasters that are affecting the world's third largest economic power.

A European intelligence source who visited Japan to assess the post-quake/tsunami situation reports that the Japanese public is being told very little about the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear reactor disaster or the reasons why Japan has been rocked by so many 6.0+ quakes, called "aftershocks," after the devastating 9.0 quake and resulting tsunami. Many Japanese are bewildered about the non-stop quakes that are shaking the main island of Honshu and cannot understand why they are not being told more by their media.

Adding to the Japanese public's fears about the recurring quakes is the virtual blackout on news about the harmful effects of the Fukishima reactor meltdown and the fact that the nuclear incident has been rated a Level 7 in severity, on par with the Chernobyl disaster of 1986.

Chernobyl adversely affected Europe's food supply for years, with high levels of radiation being measured in Finnish and Swedish reindeer and even Welsh sheep. The Japanese, highly dependent on food from the sea, are not being given the full picture of the radiation danger posed to marine life and the oceanic food chain.

Not only is Japan's seafood source a radiation threat but abnormally high levels of radioactive isotopes found in rainwater in Tokyo and Osaka, where the bulk of Japan's population works and lives, poses a threat to agricultural, dairy, and drinking water supplies.

Our source reports that only the local prefecture-based media is reporting the danger to the public posed by the radiation levels. On the other hand, the Japanese government-owned NHK broadcasting network has acted as a virtual public relations arm of the government of Prime Minister Naoto Kan and the Tokyo Electric Power Company, the operator of the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

The Japanese media underplaying of the nuclear disaster is being echoed in the Western media, particularly in the United States. Fukushima reactor provider General Electric, part owner of NBC and its affiliates, has done its very best to pay scant regard to the public dangers posed by the Fukushima disaster to the people of Japan and other countries, including the United States. GE's chief executive officer Jeffrey Immelt is a top adviser to President Obama and one of his major campaign donors. NBC's cover-up of the Japanese nuclear disaster is being mirrored by the other corporate-owned media in the United States and abroad, calling into question the journalistic ethics of broadcasters and print media reporters, editors, and producers. Journalists' first responsibility is to serve the public good, not the prop up corporate bottom lines and protect a nuclear industry-influenced White House and Congress. As H.L. Mencken once wrote, the twin responsibilities of a true journalist are "to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable."

April 13, 2011

Expert: Despite Japanese Gov’t Claims of Decreasing Radiation, Fukushima a "Ticking Time Bomb"

The Japanese government is trying to calm fears about radiation levels and food safety in the region around the heavily damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility, even as it has raised the severity rating of the crisis to the highest possible level. "Radiation is continuing to leak out of the reactors. The situation is not stable at all," says Dr. Michio Kaku, professor of theoretical physics at the City University of New York and the City College of New York. "The slightest disturbance could set off a full-scale meltdown at three nuclear power stations, far beyond what we saw at Chernobyl."
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