Imagine that.

Corrupt Capitalism meets corrupt Government.

No different than our coal companies putting dust meters in offices or in boxes, and our government doing nothing about it.

Great to see all that corruption is part of the Global Economy! I would sure hate to see the US have a monoply on such practices!

no different. then in any company.look at all the companies that still have there workers working around asbestos insulation. they have then sing waver saying they know they are working around the stuff.so the company wont be liable.they know its dangers. but because they don't want to spend the money to remove it.so they let there works put them self at risk. because if a worker dont sing papper then they have no job

Corporations in Japan are just like corporations in America - profits first.

The only way to stop greedy people is to elect a government that works for real people, not corporations.

Ever wonder why the Koch brothers are investing so much money in this Presidential election? They invest in politics, you know.

Indeed. Ever heard of the Japanese Current? Take a look. But of course that has zip to do with the US, of course not, could never be, we would have been told. Cause our media loves us, yes they do. And they're honest to a fault, no matter what someone else tells them to report, no sirree.

brought to you by those that want to eliminate the epa and osha.

remember , its your job to risk your life and health for those on top to make a bigger profit. its not the job for those on top to figure out how to make a profit without throwing away the lives of their employees/slaves.

Granted, capitalists will cut corners on safety for profit.

But then why do government owned not-for-profit coal mines in China have an even crappier safety record?

Why did the Soviets cut corners at Chernobyl. (IIRC the biggest issue was not even reactor design but inadequate staffing. Only the Jr. operators were nucs...the chief engineer and a lot of the top men only worked on COAL PLANTS prior to Chernobyl IIRC...)

"greedy people" ?

Just people playing the game the best they can which is what everyone supports...trying your best.

One persons greed is another persons ..... bla bla bla

"Life is not fair" .... remember that when you say it to children.

Ptowns: Saying life is not fair is one thing, because it's true. Laying down and accepting it is another. (The crooks/politicians are depending on us all doing the latter). P.S.: the latter shows weakness.

Sounds like an order a government employee would give; or at least an employee under the control of government.

This is simply a typical example of government coverup.

How many Japanese people know about Unit 731.

The nuke power industry in the USA is no better. Like their counterpart in Japan, American nuke power fornicates with government nuke regulators to get special treatment and to lie to the American people about nuke safety with government approval.

The Federal government has made the American taxpayers the back-stop to insolvent Fannie/Freedie/FHA/FDIC. Without taxpayer as back-stops, no bank would have made the kind of risky mortgage during the past 50 years, and thousands of crooked banks would have been forced to shut down without the FDIC. Likewise, the Federal government has made the American taxpayers the back-stop to the nuke industry.

Similarly, no nuke generator would have been built without taxpayers as the back-stop. Not a single insurance company in America wants to insure any nuke power plant. The Federal government conscripted the taxpayers as the insurance company insuring all the nuke generators in USA. That's how dangerous nuke power has always been.

As the fallouts of the financial meltdown, the Federal government bailout the WallSt FatCats and bankers with the trillions dollar bailout. LIkewise in a nuke fallout, hundreds of trillions of taxpayer money will be needed to bailout striken cities and cleanup nuke contaminated wasteland. But for taxpayers as the insurance for the nuke industry, no nuke power plant would have been built in USA. That's how risky nuke power really is.

Through lies, deception, fraud, and propaganda, the nuke power industry and the Federal Nuke Regulators have kept the truth from the taxpayers.

JEM-1989317: "How many Japanese people know about Unit 731." Basically, everyone except kids younger than 5. The topic has been heavily publicized for more than 30 years and is covered in standard school textbooks for several school years.

JEM-1989317 said, "How many Japanese people know about Unit 731."

ALL of them ... except those too young to read, those not capable of normal levels of understanding, those who are not interested in learning about it, and/or those who simply refuse to accept the fact because it doesn't fit their agenda.

I deeply suspect, with the exception of the 1st group, that the great majority of the "They don't know about it" crowd convieniently fits into the last group.

Unit 731 facts & history is WELL known to Japanese, just as nuclear testing on troops & syphillis experimenting on blacks is well known to U.S. citizens ... well, at least those who bother to do a few minutes of research on Google. Japan has no "Universal Firewall" such as China does.

731 is not exactly a high point of Japanese pride, just as the other 2 examples don't really raise national pride in the U.S. So they aren't typically discussed over dinner & wine. You would have known this if you ... well, if you bothered to do a few minutes of research on Google ... BEFORE you bothered to make an ignorant & idiotic claim.

This is the exact reason why the collective IQ of the human race has literally plummeted over the last couple decades. No one bothers to THINK, rather than NOT think.

P.S. Oops, sorry Whence, didn't notice you had already tried to correct JEM's ignorance of the subject he tried to discuss. Good job.

@WallStFatCat -

You have no clue about nuclear safety and procedures in the U.S.

Try working at a nuclear plant once. You'll find out how much B.S. you are regurgitating.

I do work at one and safety is the very first priority. Even the smallest things like simply reaching across a rope will cause events that get reported to the NRC. Too many small events like that and there are fines on the utility that owns the plant. Don't report those small events and it is a nightmare for the plant and workers involved. There are NRC inspectors stationed at all nuclear plants. They go where they want, when they want and if they don't get immediate, unfettered access it brings down a whole hornet's nest of inspections and government officials to the site because they think things are being hidden or not reported.

When you actually have some real experience like I have with this get back to me. Because you're clueless on this subject. Spreading lies like you are serves no good.

They are all corrupt and greedy , they dont care about life or environment only money greedy pigs can have my share

jay:

Tell me one private insurance company in the world that insures one American nuke power plant for nuke accidents. Just one, OK?

ALL non-military reactors in the U.S. have private insurance from a private company called American Nuclear Insurers, & have since 1957, when the requirement was made federal law. Don't let the name confuse you, since you aren't real good with Google, the company has ZILCH connections with government. It's named that because all, or the great majority, of insured reactors are American. Most all other nuclear countries have SOME type of insurance requirement, often by federal law.

The typical 1-unit premium is $800,000+/-, with discounts for multiple units. This covers the first $375 mil of liability claims from damage to public property & person. Everything above that amount comes from a "pool" maintained by the nuclear industry itself, also non-governmental except being federally enforced. This pool currently has $12 bil+/- in it & claims will be prorated by share of each of the current 104 reactors. After this, if claims are still unpaid, a federal court will decide how deep into this $12 bil pool that the guilty party can go.

ALL levels of accident are covered, with the sole exception of temporary storage of contaminated waste & spent fuel. YOU are covered by this, right along with the other 299,999,999 U.S. citizens. That's why YOUR private insurance, regardless of who you use, does NOT cover claims resulting from nuclear plants going boom.

So there's 104 examples for ya. I believe that covers your "one".

HINT: Google is your friend, keeps you from looking stoopid.

davy well?man?, yur yipponeese isn't cummmming thru too well on Fookyiammieee

ebaum: Who has been reporting that subcontractors asked workers to make accurate measurement of radiation exposure more difficult? Do you have references?

All you have to do is google 'high fukushima radiation levels', there are dozens of reports on non MSM sites. Some of the sites are in truth "fringe" but even a broken clock is correct twice a day. Those sites have been reporting on the conspiracy of silence regarding the meltdown almost since day one.

They also reported on the massive anti-nuke power demonstrations in Japan over the last six months or so; with little or no mention in the MSM.

Kathy Stuart: I did so Google and found no reports (zero). I checked in both English and Japanese. Can you suggest any specific sites or articles?

I will never ever trust BP (Or go to their service stations) again. I will never trust the lying Japanese Government ever again. To me Japan is off limits due to massive Radiation in almost all the nation!!!

Yeah...unlike the US which is pure as the driven snow.

Those darn radiation levels are TOTALLY gonna wake up Godzilla...

I am so glad to be an American! Our government would never do that. We set the standard for the world (no matter how low).

Romney - 2012 May the richest corporations win...

jukkou: The people reported to be doing the cover-up are not part of the nuclear power industry as such.

The people reported to be doing the cover-up are not part of the nuclear power industry as such.

Since the nuclear power industry hired them, then why weren't the subcontractors being monitored by the nuclear power industry?

The buck needs to start stopping at the top. We too often do not hold those at the top responsible and accountable and allow those at the top to continually skate free.

The nuke-industy is well monied and influencial

Lets keep in mind that this incident happened in JAPAN. Tokyo Electric Power has a vested interest in the plant's start up because of profits. Profits make any company look at the "bottom line" over people's best interest everyday...everywhere. But Japan does not have a sophisticated Federal Nuclear Regulatory Commission as stringent as the United States. And when our own NRC volunteered to assist Japan, they declined the NRC's assistance. Japan had the opportunity to get the best experts in the world from our Federal NRC, but their government did not want the "world" to know how bad it really was. Everyone can yell and scream all they want about Capitolism, but what is the alternative "Socialism" .

Atleast in the United States, even with all the retoric about reducing the size of government, thank goodness we have a government agency like the NRC. You know, since 1961 to 2010 the U.S. has had 12 Nuclear Power plant accidents and only 3 lives lost and that was in Idaho in 1961. Our Federally run NRC provides over 4000 inspections per year and regulates the shut down every 18-24 months of a plant to run vigorous inspections and replace spent uranium fuel. No other country in the world does that.

I certainly would not characterize this as

this is just the smallest illistration of the dis-information and cover-up of this on-going and world wide crisis

LorraineH: "Tokyo Electric Power has a vested interest in the plant's start up because of profits." TEPCO has had no plans and no hopes of ever restarting the Fukushima Dai Ichi plant for more than a year and since long before the incident(s) reported in the article.

WhenceOneWonders - TEPCO wants two of the reactors started back up and running by 2013, of more interest to them is that prior to the Fukishima incident, they were in negotiations to re-start up the Monju Reactor that was closed in 1995 due to the fusion reactor problems. TEPCO never stated they did not plan to eventually start-up the two reactors where the containment compartments were intact where "spent" urianium fuel was not destroyed or released.

LorraineH: Thank you for the reply. #6.3 read to me as if you were implying that TEPCO wished to restart the Fukushima Dai Ichi reactors; the Monju reactor you refer to in #6.5 is in Fukui Prefecture, on the other side of the country from the Fukushima reactors.

"You feel it..and that’s all you are is just
feelers not thinkers! Turn off your computers and move out of your parents
basements and get a real job, OMG the mindless minions!"

But YOU have the TRUE information. Right?

I've noticed that you get around and post on the Vine often enough yourself...... Feel free to lead by example.

So we're a bunch of ignorant bastards for reading this article? I've often wondered what the true definition of a "Blithering Idiot" was, now I've found a textbook example. Thank you Dame808 !

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Kinda makes you wish Godzilla would finally wake up eh?

Personally I think i's mother nature's way of punishing Japan for killing the dolphins.

frances-283318: "The same country that used MEN in the world series of little league": you seem to be confusing Japan and Taiwan.

Are you another one of those people that believe that if you can't see it for yourself then it's not happening? Why don't you just go visit the Fukushima nuclear power and verify it for yourself.

Wally

If you don't believe what you read here, why don't you go back to Faux news for your information. Surely they are accurate. <snark>

This was reported first by the Japan Times. "Tepco crisis workers faced exposure scam".

Never Stop Asking Questions

Imagine that.

Corrupt Capitalism meets corrupt Government. I don't see where the government is involved with this, just an ignorant business executive committing what is call malpractice.

'And all that radiation that escaped is headed to the west coast of the Americas'

Another brainless american that knows nothing about nuclear energy, radiation, or contamination.

Agreed. The Koch brothers will be getting in touch with this executive. In the off chance their Romneybot wins the election they will want this guy to run the EPA.

Ditto Big D, Info-warrior here. Yep, this is old news to many of us that ignore the Dinosaur Whore Mainstream Media, and subscribe to the Real/True News... I have been trying to awaken people for many years now. It is definitely an uphill struggle,and good luck to you, in your efforts of awakening the Sheeple....

Big D-309516: "Infowars was reportring this cover up shortly after the accident": Do you have a link? The (literal) cover-up in question seems, according to this article, to have taken place in December, or more than 8 months after the accident.

What a @!$%#ing moron. Nuclear contamination is NOT forever. I work in nuclear and have been contaminated before, as have many people I know. Know what you do? Throw it away and if you are really crapped up you may have to take a shower, but I have never personally known anyone to have to do that. thats what pc's are for.

I can see you got your nuclear education from movies like Mad Max and Terminator... just another TV educated brainless american.

max ol' buddy, lets put a stop to the stupidity before it gets out of hand.

your analogy is cheezy at best,

on the contrary, contamination washes off, quite easily in fact.

there are 2 types of contamination, #1 fixed contamination which basically means whatever is contaminated has been so saturated that it becomes radioactive itself. which i might add, cant happen to living organizms.

then there's loose contamination, which are little particles like dust that are contaminated. those can get on you or be inhaled.

if that happens, you just take a nuclear shower, or in the case of onjestion, your flushed out. lots of fluids.

pretty simple.

i'll take the contaminated water bath any day.

by the way, i'm a certified rad worker and have to re-certify every year.

First of all, I guess I'll thank you for working in an industry that dangerous on a good day.

Second, we'll see how your doing when you hit 50, 60, 70...

Fact is these days they think most all cancer is environmental. And you can't trust the government or industry to do even the remotest right thing. Remember it was the gov that had all of those men stand out by the tests for the atomic bomb in New Mexico in the 50's.

You "think" you're safe. Time will tell who and how many lies you've been told. Just ask the auto workers how many of them have cancer because everything was okay in the plant. You might be surprised.

bigdog2-1653270: The article is not about the Japanese government doing anything: it's about a subcontractor of a semi-public Japanese company.

it's all the same, they all have a slant on everything...

Sad but true though of late it feels like they can't even move without lying these days..