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For decades, a stream of lies from the nuclear industry

Nuclear sector seeks to regain trust after Fukushima, Paul Langley’s Nuclear History Blog,   Sep 13, 2012
* Nuclear industry needs to be transparent – Areva chief

* Fukushima was an error – Westinghouse executive

Throughout my life, I recall, a constant stream of nuclear lies. As the old nukers die, new ones fill their shoes and believe, without much question, everything they are told. When it blows up in our faces, they first deny and then cry “Error”. Pray for Japan. Its useless looking for nuclear help, or nuclear truth, from nuclear industry. imo.

March 11 was an error,” said Ric Perez, president and chief operating officer of Westinghouse, also a leading nuclear company and majority-owned by Japan’s Toshiba.

Perez said it was the sector’s obligation to continue to improve safety and address points of contention as a collective industry rather than companies from different countries……
They will say and do anything to hide the fact that the Fukushima reactors are still venting radionuclides onto land, sea and air. They will say and do anything to keep their share values up. They will do anything to block such news from being accurately and routinely reported in the mass media. They cannot at this point though, control the internet.

These are the very same companies and governments who warned favored people to move out of Utah and Nevada, the same ones who, throughout the 1950s to 1980s labelled dissenting scientists and individuals as “unpatriotic”, the same ones who called who complained to government about the death of their children from nuclear fallout as being ‘Communistically inspired’, the same ones who forced the Marshall Islanders to return to contaminated land. They are the sames who directed funds which became a permanent Dole to nuclear industry, the same ones who permit nuclear industry to cause global havoc within the protection of limited liability, the same ones who fund phony research known as hormesis, which these liars falsely claim “proves” that nuclear emissions such as strontium, cesium, Xenon and Krypton is beneficial to health. These routine emissions, particularly at refuelling cause disease.

These are the same ones who told Japan and the world that there were no meltdowns at the Fukushima Reactors, the same ones who told Japan and the world that it was fine to eat plutonium, that only unhappy people get radiation sickness, that noone was at risk, that it was safe to move back into the Fukushima immediate fallout zone, that it was good to decontaminate even when fallout is still arriving and even civilians have returned to the areas being decontaminated. The rad readings in air in Fukushima City, where people walk passed workers removing cesium and other nuclear shit with steam cleaners, where kids have to walk to school even though they are warned to avoid the rain and stay indoors, is higher than the rad rad readings in air in the permanent exclusion zone.
Yea, you are a mistake Westinghouse. So are the rest of them. If Fukushima was a mistake unforeseen by world nuclear industry and government, why were scientists in the 1960s and 1970s so abused and ignored by pro nuclear companies and government? Why, when the AEC Ergen Report of the 1960s demanded a technical fix to the high risk of emergency core cooling system failure was it ignored? Why were no full scale tests conducted? When Lapp highlighted the “Problem of Nuclear Plumbing” (New York Times) in 1971, why was he ignored? When Nader and Abbott highlighted the high inherent risks of ranks of reactors clumped together in “reactor parks” in 1975 and when those two also repeated the high risks presented by “nuclear plumbing”, inadequate containment and poor resistance to disasters inherent in nuclear reactors, why did World Nuclear respond by merely calling Nader and Abbott nasty names? The sale and construction of the reactors for TEPCOs Fukushima Diiachi site went ahead in this very same period. Was that a mistake? How is it a mistake if dozens, literally dozens of people from around the world, many independent scientists and some scientists who lost their jobs because they spoke honestly, all said the same things.That the ECCS was inadquate, that disaster resistance was inadequate, that containment was inadequate, that lives would be at risk.

The world nuclear lobby built reactors anyway. That is a deliberate act. Lapp could see that reactors had to be built away from major cities. As a result the Japanese food basket of Fukushima now lies as radiologically, nuclide venting ruin. Well done? I don’t think so…
http://nuclearhistory.wordpress.com/2012/09/13/fukushima-was-mistake-wetinghouse-chief-boy-he-thinks-its-still-1954/

September 14, 2012 Posted by Christina Macpherson | 2 WORLD, history | Leave a comment