Former UN member Mr. Matsumura
and former Swiss ambassador Murata gave an urgent request to Mr. Fujimura,
chief Cabinet Secretary to convey their message to Prime Minister Noda before
his departure for Washington to meet with President Obama on April 30. Mr. Matsumura commented in his above website
that he was greatly disappointed that the
idea of an independent assessment team and international technical support for
the disaster were not mentioned publicly.
He also said that he was astonished to hear that many Japanese political
leaders were not aware of the potential global catastrophe because they were
not told anything about it by TEPCO. He
wonders why the Japanese political leaders would think it appropriate to depend
on one source …….. As a result of this
myopia, Japan’s
leadership lacks a clear picture of the situation and has little idea where it
is steering its country and people. ………………………………
Due to the pressure by the
public and media, the government of Japan sent Mr. Goshi Hosono, Minister of the Environment and Nuclear Power Policy,
to Reactor 4 on May 26. He spent half an hour on a temporary staircase
at the site. Surprisingly, he said the
structure supporting the pool appeared sound.
Minister Hosono also said at the press meeting that Reactor 4 could
stand a Magnitude-6 earthquake. I don’t understand
why he said this. We are warning that Japanese geologists predict that a 90%
probability M-7 earthquake will be hitting Japan within three years……………………..
Mr. Matsumura also mentioned
that “Prime Minister Noda, the sixth premier in the past five years, does
not have the political power to make a decision to request the Independent
Assessment team and the international technical support teams outside of TEPCO……….
Mr.
Matsumura went to Washington DC to talk to Spent-Fuel Pools
Expert Robert Alvarez who says [85
times greater Cesium-137 at Fukushima than at Chernobyl accident] . He told him that Japan will not take the
first step; its leadership does not have the power to act first and survive
politically, and does not have the courage to take the first step without
thinking of the second.
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