Update ! – Japan admits three nuclear reactors (numbers 1, 2 and 3) reached Full meltdown !
While most major news media have ignored it, (particularly television) this website and others have been tracking evidence that there was a nuclear reactor meltdown at Fukushima. Saturday May 14th Japanese officials confirmed, and World Nuclear News reported, that Unit 1 at Fukushima’s Daiichi Plant did experience a nuclear meltdown – probably on the same day the earthquake struck.
The oddest thing about this news is that while a nuclear meltdown (which is an extremely serious landmark) was predicted by independent experts and denied by the industry – almost no major US media have reported it, or if they mentioned it – they buried it or obscured in their articles. There is not a single headline announcing that the nuclear meltdown occurred.
Here’s the CNN story titled “Japan utility sticks to timeline for ending nuclear crisis.”
and even the Washington Post with the anti-sexy headline “Tepco revises plan for cooling reactors”
Is the US media trying to bury this story?
Indymedia reporter Stephen Lendman reached the same conclusion after even deeper research writing “Despite the significance of TEPCO’s May 12 announcement, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune ignored it, while New York Times writers Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew Wald downplayed it, headlining, “Japanese Reactor Damage Is Worse Than Expected . . .”
At the same time a Nuclear safety expert from the venerable Union of Concerned Scientists explained to Congress — “In [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] terminology, a severe accident is one in which at least some of the fuel melts,” said Lochbaum. “In testimony at Congressional hearings, NRC and nuclear industry representatives have claimed that the severe accident management guidelines (SAMG) developed in the wake of reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island would provide reliable protection against the problems faced at Fukushima Daiichi. They have not been telling the whole story.”
References:
CNN: 3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms
World Nuclear News (Thanks to reporting by NewScientist)
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