Rebuilding trust key for Japan
A crucial part of any recovery preparation for Japan includes questions on how to raise money and ensure it is properly invested. Reconstruction of trust in both government and nuclear power is an essential part of the process. - Haruko Satoh
March 19, 2011 -- TEPCO and Japanese regulator NISA, stonewalling on nuclear plant Fukushima-Daiichi crisis...
We have learned of a concerted campaign of the stonewalling of key Japanese government officials by Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the operator of the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant, and Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) nuclear regulatory watchdog. We have been told by informed Japanese sources that the close relationship between TEPCO and NISA neutered effective oversight of TEPCO's safety problem-ridden reactors for a number of years. The lack of effective contingency planning and TEPCO's overriding interest in it's corporate bottom led to the post-quake/tsunami Level 5 nuclear crisis at the Fukushima-Daiichi plant. The lack of effective NISA oversight is a direct result of the cozy relationship between the Japanese nuclear regulatory agency, according to our sources...
One of the major reasons why the Japanese Cabinet of Prime Minister Naoto Kan has not been fully informed of the dire situation at the Fukushima-Daiichi reactor facilities is that Chief Cabinet Secretary, attorney Yukio Edano, cut his teeth in politics as an outspoken opponent of Japan's nuclear power industry...
We have been told that TEPCO and NISA, skeptical of Edano's past anti-nuclear stance, feared that Edano stands to amplify the threat posed by the current nuclear disaster at Fukushima-Daiichi. TEPCO and NISA have, therefore, acted to limit what information has been passed to Edano to avoid the Cabinet Secretary heightening fears during his many news conferences. Edano has been the chief Japanese government's face in televised news conferences on Fukushima-Daiichi's nuclear meltdown and radiation release....
Edano's past anti-nuclear stance also extended to his opposition to nuclear-powered U.S. Navy ships from being homeported in Japanese ports.... There are some indications that the Obama administration, which fully supports the U.S. nuclear power industry, has also quietly supported TEPCO and NISA from providing Edano with too much information, especially since Edano also holds the portfolio of Minister of State for Okinawa Affairs. The people of Okinawa have been adamant about the need for the U.S. to pull its military bases off the island....
http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/tsunamiupdate01.html
Amid rolling blackouts and food and fuel shortages, Japanese in the danger zone of radiation fallout face a stark choice between believing repeated government assurances it's safe to bunker down or leaving their homes to join the foreign exodus. While foreign media have been accused of sensationalizing the situation at the stricken nuclear plant, Japan's mind-control machine has a history of deliberately downplaying the truth. - Christopher Johnson (Mar 18, '11)
