{"id":1162,"date":"2011-05-17T21:57:04","date_gmt":"2011-05-17T21:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/?p=1162"},"modified":"2015-11-01T18:27:59","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T02:27:59","slug":"nuclear-meltdown-at-fukushima-confirmed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/daviddilworth.com\/pol\/nuclear-meltdown-at-fukushima-confirmed\/","title":{"rendered":"Full Nuclear Meltdowns of 3 Reactors at Fukushima Confirmed !"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Update ! – Japan admits three nuclear reactors (numbers 1, 2 and 3) reached Full meltdown !<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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<\/a>. 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.<\/a> <\/p>\n

The oddest thing about this news is that while a nuclear meltdown (which is an extremely serious landmark)<\/a> 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.<\/U>
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\nHere’s the CNN story<\/a> titled “Japan<\/strong> utility sticks to timeline for ending nuclear crisis.”<\/p>\n

and even the Washington Post<\/a> with the anti-sexy headline “Tepco revises plan for cooling reactors”<\/p>\n

Is the US media trying to bury this story?<\/p>\n

Indymedia reporter Stephen Lendman reached the same conclusion after even deeper research <\/a> 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<\/strong> writers Hiroko Tabuchi and Matthew Wald downplayed it, headlining, “Japanese Reactor Damage Is Worse Than Expected . . .”<\/p>\n

At the same time a Nuclear safety expert from the venerable Union of Concerned Scientists<\/a> explained to Congress — “In [Nuclear Regulatory Commission] terminology, a severe accident<\/u> is one in which at least some of the fuel melts,” said Lochbaum. “In testimony at Congressional hearings, NRC<\/strong> and nuclear industry representatives have claimed that the severe accident management guidelines (SAMG) developed in the wake of reactor meltdown at Three Mile Island<\/strong> would provide reliable protection against the problems faced at Fukushima Daiichi. They have not been telling the whole story.”<\/p>\n

References:
\nCNN: 3 nuclear reactors melted down after quake, Japan confirms<\/a><\/p>\n

World Nuclear News<\/a> (Thanks to reporting by NewScientist)<\/a><\/p>\n

Environment News Service<\/a><\/p>\n

UK Telegraph
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Time Magazine Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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