A scene repeated across much of Japan, even in school yards, apartment parking lots, public parks, mountains of radioactive soil and waste from Fukushima's meltdowns.
MILLIONS of bags piled outdoors, ravaged by the elements, deteriorating, falling apart, being swept by flood waters into rivers and streams or out to sea.
Aerial view of a nuclear waste incinerator in Namie, Fukushima prefecture in Japan. Japanese authorities have produced a nuclear waste crisis with over 13 million cubic meters of waste produced as a result of their decontamination program – with 10 million cubic meters scheduled for open air incineration.
There are several such incinerators sprinkle across the tiny island nation.
The burning of radioactive waste generates NEW radiation into the atmosphere.
"Perhaps one of the most shocking experience in our visit to Fukushima was to witness a vast incineration complex hidden deep in the woods of southern Iitate and a nearby vast storage area with tens of thousands of waste bags surrounded on all sides by thick forests. The tragic irony of a multi-billion dollar and ultimately failed policy of decontamination that has unnecessarily exposed thousands of poorly protected and desperate workers to radiation – but which leads to a vast nuclear dump surrounded by a radioactive forest which that can never be decontaminated."
Above: Full radioactive water storage tanks around the Daiichi nuclear power plant. They've run out of space to store the high level radiation and intend to start dumping all the water into the Pacific.
From a distance it's hard to tell how enormous these tanks are, so here's some workers standing near a few for comparison.
From a distance it's hard to tell how enormous these tanks are, so here's some workers standing near a few for comparison.
Inspectors have said that, like the plastic storage bags used for solid radioactive waste, these tanks were hastily and shoddily made.
They leak.
Water running downhill from mountains behind the plant runs beneath the destroyed reactors and the tanks, becoming contaminated as well, affecting the major aquifer that runs beneath the site of the plant and also runs out to the Pacific in front of the cliffside plant.
Being a relatively small island, Japan simply doesn't have the space for all this radioactive waste.
The government wants a CHEAP way out of the situation and doesn't care what gets polluted for hundreds to thousands of years as they dispose of it, sometimes illegally.
The government of Japan, TEPCO (Tokyo Electric Co), the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), our own U.S. Nuclear Regulatory officials and worldwide nuclear industries and agencies have ALL perpetuated their coverup of the tragedy of the Fukushima meltdowns. These corporate and governmental groups and agencies have consistently misinformed the international press, the citizens of Japan, and people around the world about the true consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi meltdowns.
Maybe because much of the world felt at least remorse when America dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War 2, maybe because, given all its natural disasters, Japan seems tragic, and people are willing to excuse Japan for making the bad decisions they made to even begin building nuclear power plants in an island nation that has no room to store high levels of nuclear waste?
Whatever the reason, it appears more hopeless each day that TRUTHS will finally be exposed in mainstream media that will end this charade of "poor Japanese government doing all it can" to stop the incessant, the unending silent nuclear war against Planet Earth and her inhabitants that Japan has stealthily and successfully waged since 2011.
The government, willing accessories to the CRIMES committed by TEPCO, still refuses to accept blame for what happened.
The blame is theirs to own and if HONEST men ruled Japan, they'd come clean about this ongoing worldwide nuclear contamination.
They've been caught lying about the life-threatening continued high elevation of radiation, about the damage done, about intentional mishandling of the situation before and since the quake ans tsunami...dozens of hurtful, intenrional, DISHONORABLE lies.
And the world was willing to REWARD them for those lies and risk the health of their young athletes in a radioactive Olympics that Abe was determined to hold NEAR THAT DAMNED WRECKED PLANT.
He even planned to feed them food grown from the radioactive earth and house sme of them within sight of the ruins of Daiichi.
The revenge of Shinzo Abe, grandson of a Samurai.
His grandfather would have been ashamed of his dishonor, surely.
The "Way of the Warrior" was not preying on children.
Even with Shinzo Abe out as Japan's prime minister, the government is still intent on nuclear energy and is creating a national nuclear waste dump out of a once beautiful country, all to save the government some money, all to "save face" in the global community.
It seems that human lives and the world's environment mean far less to the ruling elite than profits and cost-cutting does.
Maybe they should change the national flag to one with a huge $ sign?
It seems that human lives and the world's environment mean far less to the ruling elite than profits and cost-cutting does.
Maybe they should change the national flag to one with a huge $ sign?
It appears that the government there is still refusing to accept responsibility for the March, 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster amid the lost lives and ruined livelihoods of thousands of unsuspecting, innocent citizens.
Before the world grows a set and hopefully gathers to force the Japanese government's admission of how horrible the aftermath has been and continues to be, the rulers will cause the demise and misery of perhaps millions more, both in Japan and around the world.
Japan's new leader is no better than its last.
Japan’s nuclear regulator has approved reopening residential areas in the difficult to return zone without prior decontamination work.
September 11, 2020
While communities try to reopen and recover business activity, the region near the disaster site has been designated as a storage site for contaminated soil bags from all over Japan. In some towns, common areas were decontaminated down to desired levels while other parts of the town remained highly contaminated.
RATHER THAN PAY TRILLIONS TO PROPERLY CLEAN UP THEIR RADIOACTIVE SELF-MADE MESS, THE GOVERNMENT IS WILLING TO PAY BILLIONS TO COERCE SMALL VILLAGES AND RURAL DISTRICTS INTO ALLOWING THEM TO MAKE NUCLEAR WASTE DUMPS OUT OF ONCE THRIVING COMMUNITIES.
THEY ARE WILLING TO POLLUTE THE PACIFIC OCEAN WITH A MILLION TONS OF WASTE WATER, AS THEY HAVE CONTINUOUSLY DUMPED 300-400 TONS A DAY INTO THE OCEAN SINCE THE TRIPLE MELTDOWNS.
"One recent study by Hiroshi Miyano, who heads a committee studying the decommissioning of Fukushima Daiichi at the Atomic Energy Society of Japan, said it could take 17 years to discharge the treated water after it has been diluted to reduce radioactive substances to levels that meet the plant’s safety standards."
CITIZENS ARE TRAPPED IN THIS RADIOACTIVE DUMP WITH NO ONE IN GOVERNMENT GIVING A TINY DAMN WHO DIES OR SICKENS FROM THE MASSIVE GOVERNMENT SCREW-UPS.
BECAUSE OF THE EVER-DECLINING ECONOMY OF RURAL FARMING AND FISHING COMMUNITIES, THE GOVERNMENT CAN USE DECEIT AND COERCION TO GET THEM TO AGREE TO MOVING BACK ONTO RADIOACTIVE LAND AND ACCEPTING THE DUMPING OF EVER MORE NUCLEAR WASTE AT THEIR DOORSTEPS.
Second site in Hokkaido considers hosting nuclear waste dump
Sep 11, 2020
The village of Kamoenai in Hokkaido is considering hosting a final disposal facility for high-level radioactive waste.
“The population is declining and industry deteriorating,” said Michihiro Ueda, a village assembly member and head of the local chamber of commerce. “We have made the action for the sake of the local community. We want to invite the disposal facility to create more jobs.”
The village, which is located in western Hokkaido and had a population of 823 as of the end of August, faces the Sea of Japan and neighbors the village of Tomari, which hosts a nuclear power plant run by Hokkaido Electric Power Co. The plant is currently offline.
According to the government map, almost all of Kamoenai except for some southern areas is unsuitable for waste disposal.
Meanwhile, many residents of Suttsu, Hokkaido, another municipality that is considering applying for a 'literature survey', voiced opposition to the plan Thursday at a briefing session organized by the municipal government.
Participating residents voiced concerns that the move would lead to harmful rumors about the town, and that if the town received subsidies from the government as a result of applying for the literature survey, it would have no choice but to become a final disposal site.
In talks with reporters after the town meeting, Suttsu Mayor Haruo Kataoka rejected the idea of holding a local referendum on the matter, saying, “It will divide the town residents.”
Meanwhile, Iitate’s Nagadoro administrative district was designated a no-go zone due to its high radiation levels.
But the Environment Ministry later designated the district as an area where radiation-tainted soil removed as part of the decontamination process would be reused to fill the land for farming.
Contaminated soil was supposed to be taken to an intermediate storage facility where it would be "preserved safely" the government told the displaced villagers who had lost hope of ever returning home.
The government lied, as usual.
At the end of 2016, the government said, out of the blue, that it was planning to "bury" the contaminated soil in Nagadoro to create arable land.
Naturally, the plan drew concern from local residents.
Deliberation between the central government, the village and its residents spanned a year.
Local residents were worried about whether it was possible for people to live there again if they were to go ahead with the project, or that a damaging reputation would haunt agricultural products harvested there.
But the government pressed on, saying it would ensure that it would also closely monitor radiation levels in the air and conduct tests to make sure the produce was safe.
In the end, locals gave in and the project was given the green light in November 2017.
In April 2018, 186 hectares of the Nagadoro administrative district’s 1,080 hectares were designated for the project. The village of Iitate proposed in May to lift evacuation orders.
The project is slated to begin by March 2021, ten long years after the preventable Fukushima disaster.
At the end of 2019, Keiko Shigihara, age 58, had her cherished home demolished for the plan. Watching it be torn down would have been too painful, so she waited to return until after it was done.
“Anything to help my hometown recover,” she said.
The land where her home used to be is now an empty lot. Cherry trees and oak trees are the only things left.
Shigihara remembers the days when she used to make homemade salted cherry blossoms and rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves, pickles from cherry blossom petals.
“It’s sad but there’s nothing to be done now except look forward,” said Shigihara, who evacuated to the city of Fukushima after the calamity.
In the end, locals gave in and the project was given the green light in November 2017.
In April 2018, 186 hectares of the Nagadoro administrative district’s 1,080 hectares were designated for the project. The village of Iitate proposed in May to lift evacuation orders.
The project is slated to begin by March 2021, ten long years after the preventable Fukushima disaster.
At the end of 2019, Keiko Shigihara, age 58, had her cherished home demolished for the plan. Watching it be torn down would have been too painful, so she waited to return until after it was done.
“Anything to help my hometown recover,” she said.
The land where her home used to be is now an empty lot. Cherry trees and oak trees are the only things left.
Shigihara remembers the days when she used to make homemade salted cherry blossoms and rice cakes wrapped in oak leaves, pickles from cherry blossom petals.
“It’s sad but there’s nothing to be done now except look forward,” said Shigihara, who evacuated to the city of Fukushima after the calamity.
Fresh produce is already being cultivated nearby and 'experiments' have been conducted to plant crops on the contaminated soil without adding a layer of uncontaminated soil.
The government lied again.
WATER, WATER EVERYWHERE
Some 400 tons of groundwater are believed to be seeping into the buildings of the Fukushima plant on a daily basis. It is then mixing with the toxic water generated by the process of cooling the crippled reactors.
The cooling tanks for the thousands of spent fuel rods are leaking from places TEPCO can't locate because the radiation is too high for humans and has proven too high for robots. They cease functioning once inside the incredibly radioactive buildings.
This cooling water must also be stored as it's used.
2,667 Radioactive Bags From Fukushima Swept Away By Typhoon Hagibis
Experts warn the radioactive bags could have a devastating environmental impact across the entire Pacific region, reports Taiwan News.
According to Asahi Shimbun, a temporary storage facility containing 2,667 bags storing radioactive contaminants from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster were “unexpectedly inundated by floodwaters brought by Typhoon Hagibis.“
Torrential rain flooded the storage facility and released the bags into a waterway 100 meters from the site.
Officials from Tamara City in Fukushima Prefecture said that each bag is approximately one cubic meter in size.
Authorities were only able to recover six of the bags by 9 p.m. on Oct. 12 and it is uncertain how many remain unrecovered while the potential environmental fallout is being assessed.
JAPAN IS NOTORIOUS FOR TYPHOONS, TSUNAMIS, EARTHQUAKES, VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS AND MONSOON RAINS.
THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE DURING FLOODING.
HOW COULD ANY OFFICIAL NOT KNOW THAT THOSE BAGS NEEDED TO BE SECURED?
IT WOULD BE SO CONVENIENT TO LET NATURE SLOWLY DISPOSE OF ALL THOSE MILLIONS OF FLIMSY BAGS IN LIKE MANNER.
MAYBE THEY COULD JUST LINE THEIR COASTS WITH THE DAMNABLE BAGS AND WAIT FOR HIGH TIDES AND STORMS?
According to the official report of The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, published by the National Diet [the national legislature] of Japan and its Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission in 2012, the meltdowns in Fukushima Prefecture could have been avoided:
"THE EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI of March 11, 2011 were natural disasters of a magnitude that shocked the entire world. Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster. It was a profoundly manmade disaster – that could and should have been foreseen and prevented. And its effects could have been mitigated by a more effective human response."
Did that ruling change government's actions, cause them to apologize to the world and their own citizens?
NO.
From a leading UK newspaper, 'The Guardian', whose journalists uncovered a well coordinated coverup by the nuclear community that began within two-days after the onset of the 'Fukushima disaster'...
NO.
From a leading UK newspaper, 'The Guardian', whose journalists uncovered a well coordinated coverup by the nuclear community that began within two-days after the onset of the 'Fukushima disaster'...
Revealed: British government's plan to play down Fukushima
"British government officials approached nuclear companies to draw up a coordinated public relations strategy to play down the Fukushima nuclear accident just two days after the earthquake and tsunami in Japan and before the extent of the radiation leak was known.
Officials stressed the importance of preventing the incident from undermining public support for nuclear power.
[THEY MANIPULATED THE MEDIA, THE PUBLIC AND HID TRUTHS THAT WOULD HAVE SHOWN THE WORLD THE REAL DANGERS OF NUCLEAR POWER, AND THAT CONTINUES TODAY.]
"This has the potential to set the nuclear industry back globally," wrote one official at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS), whose name has been redacted. "We need to ensure the anti-nuclear chaps and chapesses do not gain ground on this. We need to occupy the territory and hold it. We really need to show the safety of nuclear."
The business department emailed the nuclear firms and their representative body, the Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), on 13 March, two days after the disaster knocked out nuclear plants and their backup safety systems at Fukushima. The department argued it was not as bad as the "dramatic" TV pictures made it look, even though the consequences of the accident were still unfolding and two major explosions at reactors on the site were yet to happen
[It would have to also be typhoon, volcano, tsunami and flood-proof for Japan and wildfire-proof for California. I don't see a design possibility for that.]
A spokesman for the DECC and BIS said: "This is why we called on the chief nuclear inspector, Dr Mike Weightman, to provide a robust and evidence-based report."
[ Good to know Weighman colludes with lying criminals.]
According to one former regulator, who preferred not to be named, the degree of collusion was "truly shocking".
The government last week confirmed plans for eight new nuclear stations in England and Wales. "If acceptable proposals come forward in appropriate places, they will not face unnecessary holdups," said the energy minister, Charles Hendry.
SMALL VICTORY
Court increases state liability, compensation for nuclear disaster
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 1, 2020
Court increases state liability, compensation for nuclear disaster
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
October 1, 2020
A high court here on Sept. 30 more than doubled the amount of compensation awarded to victims of the Fukushima nuclear disaster and issued a scathing critique against the central government for its inaction.
The Sendai High Court found the central government equally at fault as plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. for failing to take anti-tsunami measures and ordered the defendants to pay a total of about 1.01 billion yen ($9.6 million) to around 3,550 evacuees and residents living in Fukushima Prefecture and elsewhere.
It was the first high court ruling in various lawsuits seeking compensation from TEPCO and the central government for the triple meltdown at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant caused by a quake-triggered tsunami in March 2011.
In October 2017, the Fukushima District Court ordered the defendants to pay about 500 million yen to about 2,900 evacuees. That decision was appealed to the Sendai High Court, which increased both the compensation amount and the number of recipients.
“We won a total victory over the central government and TEPCO,” Izutaro Managi, a lawyer for the plaintiffs, said. “The effect on the various lawsuits to be decided in the future will be huge.”
The court ruled that if the economy minister at the time had immediately ordered TEPCO to calculate the height of a possible tsunami, a forecast could have been made of the likelihood of a tsunami striking the nuclear plant.
But the ruling said, “The regulatory authority did not fulfill the role that was expected of it” and that “not exercising regulatory powers was a violation of the law regarding state compensation.”
Other district courts have ruled that the central government was not responsible because even if it had ordered measures to be taken, there would not have been enough time to complete such steps to prevent damage from the tsunami.
They had 40 years to make changes to that plant!
TEPCO WAS WARNED BY ENGINEERS THAT THEY NEEDED TO BUILD A HIGHER WALL, THAT A 7 METER TSUNAMI WOULD FLOOD THE PLANT, THAT A NUCLEAR POWER PLANT SHOULD NOT BE BUILT THERE OVER A MAJOR ACQUIRER THAT FEEDS TO TOKYO.
THEY WERE ALSO WARNED TO MOVE EMERGENCY GENERATORS TO HIGHER GROUND.
The 40-year-old plant was built on the assumption that the biggest tsunami that could be expected on the Fukushima coast would be 5.7 metres high. Even at that height, the 2008 report said, water levels onsite could exceed 15 metres.
The tsunami that crippled backup power supplies at the plant on the afternoon of 11 March, leading to the meltdown of three reactors, was more than 14 metres high.
The emergency response effort was "slow, chaotic and insufficient, and it appears that the government has learned nothing from it", said Junichi Sato, executive director of Greenpeace Japan.
THEY SIMPLY CHOSE TO CUT CORNERS, SAVE MONEY AND IGNORE WHAT WAS BEST FOR LOCAL RESIDENTS...AND THE PLANET.
Yotaro Hatamura, a professor emeritus of engineering at the University of Tokyo who headed the government panel that investigated the Fukushima nuclear accident, said, “This was an unprecedented ruling that pointed out in a rational manner the stance of both the central government and TEPCO of not looking at data that they did not want to see.”
Yotaro Hatamura, a professor emeritus of engineering at the University of Tokyo who headed the government panel that investigated the Fukushima nuclear accident, said, “This was an unprecedented ruling that pointed out in a rational manner the stance of both the central government and TEPCO of not looking at data that they did not want to see.”
Chief Cabinet Secretary Katsunobu Kato said at his Sept. 30 news conference that the central government would carefully go over the court ruling before making a decision on whether to appeal.
TEPCO also issued a statement with similar wording.
FUKUSHIMA WILL NEVER BE "OVER".
THE GOVERNMENT CAN AFFORD TO STALL.
THE PLAINTIFFS CAN'T AFFORD TO FIGHT FOR 10 MORE YEARS, or 20, or 100.
THE PLAINTIFFS CAN'T AFFORD TO FIGHT FOR 10 MORE YEARS, or 20, or 100.
ABE'S SILENT WAR GOES ON.
//WW
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