23 August 2013 (15:51 UTC-07 Tango)/16 Shawwal 1434/01 Shahrivar 1392/17 Geng-Shen (7th month) 4711
“We want officials at Tokyo Electric Power Company to have the courage to admit the limits of their efforts, instead of simply repeating ‘they are doing their best’.”-Fuketa Toyoshi, Nuclear Regulation Authority
NRA Commissioner, Fuketa Toyoshi, took an inspection tour of Fukushima Daiichi. He blasted TEPCo officials for covering up the severity of the two and half years old nuclear disaster. He also blasted TEPCo for not keeping records of ongoing radiation contamination!
Tokyo Electric officials whined back at Fuketa, saying they need at least four times their current number of subcontracted workers to properly deal with the disaster! Keep in mind that TEPCo has been getting big bucks from the Japanese government to deal with this, and now they say they don’t have enough employees?
TEPCo is now removing soil from around the contaminated water tank farms. It’s because they now realize that the contaminated water not only ran off into the Pacific Ocean, but soaked into the ground (before ending up in the ocean, as well).
More than 1-thousand people attended the funeral for hero Yoshida Masao. He was in charge of Fukushima Daiichi when the 9 quake and tsunami hit on 11 March 2011. He stayed on trying to fight what was later admitted to be melt downs in several GE designed reactors. He died last month from esophageal cancer.
TEPCo tried to tarnish the hero’s image, blaming him for lack of tsunami protection. TEPCo also downplayed his sudden case of throat cancer after fighting the nuke melt downs, saying it was not related!
It’s now been revealed that it was Yoshida Masao who made the emergency decision to use ocean water to cool the reactors. This is because he knew they were melting down! It’s also been revealed that TEPCo ordered him to stop cooling the reactors with ocean water! This can mean only one of two things: TEPCo officials are totally incompetent, or they wanted the melt downs to occur!