[ RadSafe ] "mis-information from both TEPCO and the Japanesegovernment immediately after the incident"

Tue Oct 11 13:04:30 CDT 2011

Mike,

Thank you for writing more or less what I would have liked to, but due to limited knowledge of English did not.
I unconditionally support what you put forward in your mail. Unfortunately there seem to be even people on RADSAFE (e.g. Sandy Perle), who do not recognize reality.

It isn t the duty of Japanese authorities to inform Greenpeace (called in Austria "Greenpiss"), other green militant and political groups, mass media and what we call in Europe "rainbow press", nor pseudo-scientists on line about everything - including information not available yet.......
Those people want to have "information" before it has been measured. Shame on them! 

Best regards,

Franz

---- "Brennan schrieb:
> Hi, Jaro.  
> 
> While I wish there was more information available in the early days, I
> recognize that between a broken infrastructure and a rapidly developing
> situation, that wasn't realistic.  I think there are things that could
> have been done in the ensuing months that would make it easier to get a
> better picture, but I suspect political (both governmental and
> corporate) is more the cause than technical issues.  
> 
> On the other hand, I completely agree that the fixation on the nuclear
> power plants is misplaced, compared to other things that happened.  The
> better part of 30,000 people died, and that is seldom, if ever,
> mentioned.  I don't think I've EVER seen a number for the people
> injured, though it surely is in the tens of thousands.  While there is a
> HUGE amount of attention being given to "decontaminating" ground
> contaminated with fallout (usually by means that do more environmental
> harm than the fallout possibly could), I haven't heard almost nothing
> about cleaning up the areas contaminated with all the chemicals one
> might find in a town, if the town was put in a blender and the "Liquefy"
> button hit.  I saw pictures of farmland coated in a sludge that clearly
> killed all plant and animal life in the soil; something the fallout will
> never do.  
> 
> Even worse it coverage about the coastal waters.  The soluble isotopes
> released into the ocean will be diluted to background within a short
> period after the releases stop.  Some isotopes will remain in the
> sediment at above background for some years.  But there are TENS OF
> THOUSANDS of cars in those waters, and they will be there until someone
> pulls them out.  There are ships, trains, tanks of chemicals, and all
> sorts of other things that will have a far greater and far longer effect
> on that area than the radioactive releases will.  And at this distance,
> at least, they are being ignored.  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu
> [mailto:radsafe-bounces at health.phys.iit.edu] On Behalf Of Jaro Franta
> Sent: Monday, October 10, 2011 2:10 PM
> To: radsafe at health.phys.iit.edu
> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] "mis-information from both TEPCO and the
> Japanese government immediately after the incident"
> 
> Sandy & group,
> 
> I'm a bit puzzled by the comment about "mis-information from both TEPCO
> and
> the Japanese government immediately after the incident".
> 
> I and my CNS colleagues (Canadian Nuclear Society) followed the
> development
> of the Fukushima tsunami event since the earliest days, and my
> impression is
> that NO OTHER nuclear incident has ever had better public information by
> the
> authorities -- especially given the fact that tens of thousands of lives
> were lost in the disaster in neighbouring coastal areas !
> 
> I suppose its possible that if you were occupied with other things (ex.
> long-distance travel) at the time, information may have been hard to
> come by
> ?
> 
> What bugs me - to this day - is how little (i.e. "none") media attention
> is
> given to the much wider problem of CHEMICAL contamination that resulted
> from
> the tsunami disaster:
> 
> http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action;jsessionid=B9FF81
> 1AF2
> 1DA147E27FCFE7FD70238B?articleURI=info:doi/10.1289/ehp.119-a290
> 
> ....can we expect the health effects of that mess to be blamed on
> radiation
> from Fukushima ?
> 
>  Jaro
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> 
> Mon, 10 Oct 2011 14:07:28 -0400, Perle, Sandy <sperle at mirion.com> wrote:
> 
> > The problem is that the mis-information from both TEPCO and the
> Japanese  
> > government immediately after the incident, continuing on during the  
> > incident and even after the incident is what causes the public alarm
> and  
> > gives a forum to others. Listening to the YouTube there is a lot of  
> > truth as to what is being stated. The public was misled,  
> > mis-information, deliberate or otherwise was the norm, so to question
> 
> > Chris regarding just his comments on Fukushima, is not as pertinent as
> 
> > one could say about other topics discussed here on Radsafe. Fukushima
> 
> > was a disaster with serious consequences and I am not confident that
> we  
> > have all of the facts as to what happened, what the current state is
> and  
> > how stable the reactors are, even today.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Sandy
> >
> > -----------------------------------
> > Sander C. Perle
> > President
> > Mirion Technologies
> > Dosimetry Services Division
> > 2652 McGaw Avenue
> > Irvine, CA 92614
> >
> > +1 (949) 296-2306 (Office)
> > +1 (949) 296-1130 (Fax)
> >
> > Mirion Technologies: http://www.mirion.com/
> > "Protecting people, property and the environment"
> >
> 
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