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Former NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko Visits Fukushima, Meets Evacuees -EXSKF

“What I take away from coming here and talking first hand to people in Japan, that there really is no acceptable situation which people have to be sent from their homes because of a man made technology that is there to provide electricity and do these kind of things. This is not the kind of trade off that we want to have.

It really reinforces in my mind that I think we need a different standard when it comes to nuclear safety and that standard needs really to be that nuclear power plants should only be allowed to operate if we can really guarantee that we wont have to have these large scale evacuations.

I think that’s the goal that we need to shoot for and make sure that bring about and being here and coming here, reinforces in my mind that is really the right approach and i think that that is something we want people to do.”

“we can not stop the accidents…..”

30 December 2012

EXSKF

I haven’t watched the entire program myself, but will do so tomorrow, before NHK finds the video and takes it down.

NHK BS-1 documentary “原発の“安全”を問い直す 米ＮＲＣ前委員長 福島への旅 (NRC former chairman’s trip to Fukushima – to re-examine the safety of nuclear power plants)”, first aired on December 22, 2012. The program is in Japanese, but you can hear Jaczko’s comments in English, and you can catch the interpreter.

Jaczko visited Japan in August this year, soon after he resigned from the NRC.

While walking in Namie-machi with a former resident in Tyvek suits and mask, Jaczko says,

I see many different people with views about nuclear power. Some people try and say that really because no one was killed from radiation or appears to have received lethal doses of radiation that there’s… such hype. But I think it is certainly very difficult to walk around here and see the livelihood that’s just no longer there.

The town is frozen at March 11, 2011.

At the end of the program, Jaczko says,

“In the end, everyone has to keep in mind that the safety of the public is the number one responsibility, whether you are a power plant owner, whether you’re a worker at the power plant, or a local or state or national government official, everyone has to recognize that safety of the people is the most important issue.”

Well, it wasn’t, in case of Japan. What came first and foremost was to tell people it was safe, and kept repeating it like a mantra.

Jaczko certainly does not come across as arrogant, bullying chairman that he was accused of being, by his colleagues.

Video on link

http://ex-skf.blogspot.co.uk/2012/12/radioactive-japan-former-nrc-chairman.html

December 31, 2012 Posted by arclight2011 | Uncategorized | Leave a comment