(Source) http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/11/japan-is-being-destroyed-by-criminal-corporate-cronyism-as-is-the-rest-of-the-world.html
Posted on November 6, 2013 by WashingtonsBlog
Fukushima, the Great Recession and Other Crises All Caused by Crony Capitalism
Tepco’s criminal actions have worsened the Fukushima disaster:
- Engineers
warned Tepco and the Japanese government many
years before the
accident that the
reactors were seismically
unsafe … and
that an earthquake could wipe them out. For example, the team
of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components
could “completely
and utterly fail”
during an earthquake. But Tepco covered this up (the Fukushima
reactors were fatally
damaged before
the tsunami hit
… the earthquake took them out even before the tidal wave hit)
- Tepco also tore
down the natural seawall which would have pretended the tsunami,
based upon false
projections of
the risk from a tidal wave
- Tepco admitted to
repeatedly
falsifying safety tests.
Tepco covered up cracked
reactor core containment vessel
and other
serious problems for decades
- An official Japanese
government investigation concluded that the Fukushima accident was a
“man-made”
disaster, caused by
“collusion” between government and Tepco
and bad reactor design
- Tepco knew right after
the 2011 accident that 3
nuclear reactors had lost containment, that the nuclear fuel had
“gone
missing”, and that there was in fact no
real containment at all. Tepco has desperately been trying to
cover this up
for 2 and a half years
… instead pretending
that the reactors were in “cold shutdown”
- Tepco just admitted
that it’s known
for 2 years that massive amounts of radioactive water are
leaking into the groundwater and Pacific Ocean
- Tepco – with no
financial incentive to actually fix things – has
only been pretending
to clean it up.
And see
this
- Tepco has been directly
hiring Yakuza
gang
members from criminal shell companies
as a regular, ongoing practice
- Tepco’s
recent attempts to solidify the ground under the reactors using
chemicals has backfired
horribly.
And NBC News notes:
“[Tepco] is considering freezing the ground around the plant.
Essentially building a mile-long ice wall underground, something
that’s never been tried before to keep the water out. One
scientist I spoke to dismissed this idea as grasping at straws, just
more evidence that the power
company failed to anticipate this problem … and now cannot solve
it.”
- Letting Tepco remove the
fuel rods is like letting
a convicted murderer perform delicate brain surgery on a VIP.
- Top scientists and
government officials say that Tepco
should be removed from all efforts to stabilize Fukushima, and
that an international
team of the smartest engineers and scientists should handle this
difficult “surgery”.
And Japan will likely pass a new anti-whistleblowing law in an attempt to silence criticism of Tepco and the government:
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government is planning a state secrets act that critics say could curtail public access to information on a wide range of issues, including tensions with China and the Fukushima nuclear crisis.
The new law would dramatically expand the definition of official secrets and journalists convicted under it could be jailed for up to five years.
In reality, reporters covering Fukushima have long been harassed and censored.
This is exactly like the financial crisis, the BP oil spill and other major disasters … crony capitalism between corrupt corporations and captured governments is ruining our lives.
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