The first photo, on page 23, is part of an independent section written by Philip White, titled "Overview of the Fukushima nuclear disaster" (pg 14-25).
The second photo, on pg 27, is from a 4 page section titled "No escape from accidents" by M.V. Ramana.
Contrary to your claim I have not vouched for the authenticity of the photo. In fact, I said at the outset that you had raised "excellent questions" and that people should investigate your claims for themselves.
What I
did say was that other publishers had used that same photo from DayLife's archives and labeled it as a photo of Fukushima. I linked to one such article above, here is another
http://www.sovereignindependent.com/?p=15831 . Note that there are two inaccuracies in this news article - one is the photo, and the other is the claim by the nuclear industry that the "core is presumed intact".
The photo mistake was identified in the comments; do you by chance know how long it was before the meltdown was acknowledged publicly?
If you want more examples of this photo being mislabeled at one of Fukushima, just google "fukushima explosion".
Your most fervent hope is that people will not read the paper.
My hope is that they will.
Preface
Kozue Akibayashi
Six months have already passed since the earthquake and tsunami that literally devastated the Tohoku, the northeast area of Japan, on 11 March 2011. In Japan,
not a single day has gone by without hearing about the victims. More than 20,000 people have died or are still missing as a result of the magnitude 9.0 earthquake and a series of tsunamis that surpassed what had been predicted. More than 80,000 have lost their homes and in many cases their entire community, and remain dis- placed to this day. Even to the people of Japan—possibly the best-prepared for large-scale earthquakes and tsunamis because of the country’s long earthquake-prone history—the power of this catastrophe was beyond our imagination. The reconstruction of the re gion will require long-term efforts of the entire nation and international cooperation.
The earthquake and tsunamis are gone, but we are now left to cope with something very different: radiation. The Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station, one of the oldest nuclear power plants in Japan, with some of its reactors having been in operation for nearly 40 years, was severely wrecked by the earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. Soon after that, the plant managers lost control; explosions, meltdowns, and the release of radioactive materials followed. We were not told what was actually going on at the time. The Japanese government’s daily press confer- ence did not confirm what many suspected: that massive radiation was leaking into the soil, water, and air. We first learned from foreign sources about the hydrogen explosions of the plant’s containment buildings on 14 March and after.
It has been an extremely frustrating six months, particularly for those living in the vicinity of Fukushima Dai-ichi who have been displaced, not knowing what will happen nor when or even if they will ever return home. Nobody in a responsible position has provided necessary information to the public about the status of the radiation leaks, anticipated impacts, or policies to ensure the safety of people. The nuclear scientists who have been working for years to point out the dangers of nuclear energy despite the difficulties of being ostracized in the industry because of their criticism of nuclear energy and its policies, desperately tried to disseminate information on the Inter- net because that was the only possible media outlet for them. Major media did not report their analyses of the plant’s conditions nor radiation leak.
It has been reported recently that many residents in the surrounding areas of the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant had to make decisions about evacuation without sufficient information and headed to locations that were later revealed to have been contaminated with higher levels of radiation, because their assumption of the wind direction was incorrect. If the Japanese government, the Nuclear Safety Committee, the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, the Nuclear and Indus- trial Safety Agency, and the Tokyo Electric Power Company had provided the information on wind direction
and the simulation of radiation spread that they had already had, these residents could have made different decisions. Now many residents are struggling with very little help to figure out what safety measures they can take, especially to protect children who are more vulner- able to radiation. Such stories of undermining the safety of people are, very unfortunately, legion, and even to this day we feel left in dark with no good information.
Now we, in Japan, are facing serious radiation spread nationwide, if not worldwide. The leak and contamination have been continuing. Radioactive cesium has been detected in beef from the region that was earlier considered far enough from the Fukushima Dai-ichi plant. Agricultural soils contaminated with cesium have already been sold throughout Japan. With the rice harvest season approaching, everyone is anxious to know whether our staple food will be safe. Farmers, fishermen, and dairy farmers in Fukushima and adjacent areas are struggling because their products may not be safe, or may not be sold as consumers are deeply dubious about the food safety and fearful of exposure to radiation, contrary to the government’s repeated comment that the low-level radiation, even when detected, will not have immediate danger to our health. But who can ensure long-term safety?
It is such a deep irony that Japan is now suffering from this radiation. Japan was...
Costs, risks, and myths of nuclear powerNGO world-wide study on the implications of the catastrophe at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Station
Edited by RAY ACHESON
© 2011 Reaching Critical Will of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom
Permission is granted for non-commerical reporduction, copying, distribution, and transmission of this publication or parts thereof so long as full credit is given to the coordinating project and organization, editor, and relevant authors; the text is not altered, transformed, or built upon; and for any reuse or distribution, these terms are made clear to others.It includes an excellent 3 page reference table "Who, what, where: the nuclear fuel cycle’s footprint" by Beatrice Fihn which identifies looks at the degree of international involvement in the nuclear industry. The breakdown of the broader topic into easy-to-read, independent sections makes it a document worth printing out and reading in a leisurely manner.
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