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Video of Fukushima nuclear whistleblower

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/09/3240251.htm Nuke worker speaks out about tsunami taboo VIDEO ABC News By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy A former worker at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan says the operator ignored warnings about a large tsunami hitting the facility.Jun 9, 2011 

The Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) insists the Fukushima accident was triggered by a massive earthquake and tsunami and was not exacerbated by human error.

But critics and insiders say incompetence and negligence on the part of TEPCO also contributed to the scale of the disaster.

A former TEPCO engineer has spoken exclusively to the ABC about the cover-ups and collusion he witnessed inside the stricken plant.

Toshio Kimura worked at the Fukushima No.1 plant for 12 years.

“I asked my boss back in the late ’90s what would happen if a tsunami hit the Fukushima reactors,” he said.

“I said surely a meltdown will happen. He said ‘Kimura, you are right’. But it was made clear that the issue of a big tsunami was taboo.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/06/09/3240251.htm

“A few years later I quit the company because of its culture of cover-ups.”…..

June 10, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | - Fukushima 2011, Resources -audiovicual