At Fukushima events reveal there are gaping holes in the safety system. Despite international neglect and disinterest, the situation grows steadily more destructive to both Japan and the globe. While the incident is local, the impact is local, regional, national, international and planetary. TEPCO owns Fukushima but it does not have the technologies and resources necessary to contain, let alone, permanently correct, the disaster. Daily fast-breaking news stories detail more serious errors, breeches, failures and dangers as the energy giant continues to fall further behind in the required control measures. The assertions that the government of Japan was now firmly in control of the situation have proven to be nothing more than empty rhetoric. While Fukushima becomes more of a threat on a daily basis, TEPCO is seeking to restart the largest nuclear station in the world and the government of Japan becomes more invested in the pretense that there is no problem associated with radiation to the people or the planet touched by that radiation – an increasingly large population of the earth. The necessary control measures do not currently exist within the orbit of the technology TEPCO has, nor that which the embarrassed Japanese government is willing to access for reasons of special interest concerns and finances. In fact, the control exerted by the Nuclear industry, economic interest and national pride is so great that no rational long term solutions are being explored. Admitting the magnitude of the problem would force Japan to cancel the 2020 Olympics and halt its nuclear ambitions totally.
Posted on: Mon, 30 Sep 2013 02:47:17 +0000
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