«Συγγνώµη, αλλά θα µολύνουµε τον Ειρηνικό µε ραδιενέργεια»

Ποιος καθορίζει άραγε το ποιος ζει και ποιος πεθαίνει;

Η TEPCO και η κάθε TEPCO.

Δε γίνεται αυτή η ολιγαρχία να συνεχίσει να κυβερνά. Και θα πρέπει οι άνθρωποι να ξεμάθουν να είναι σκλάβοι, και να μάθουν να ασκούν αυτοί την εξουσία. Σε λίγο θα μας ξεκάνουν όλους.

«Συγγνώµη, αλλά θα µολύνουµε τον Ειρηνικό µε ραδιενέργεια»

Πριν από έναν µήνα θα ήταν αδιανόητο. Σήµερα, η ρίψη µολυσµένου νερού στον Ειρηνικό Ωκεανό είναι µονόδροµος. Περίπου 11.500 τόνους «ελαφρώς» ραδιενεργού ύδατος άρχισε να απορρίπτει σταδιακά από χθες στη θάλασσα η ιαπωνική εταιρεία ηλεκτρικής ενεργείας Tepco, η οποία διαχειρίζεται τον πυρηνικό σταθµό της Φουκουσίµα. Λίγο πριν από την έναρξη τηςδιαδικασίας, εκπρόσωπος της εταιρείας ζήτησε ταπεινά συγγνώµη για τη ρύπανση της θάλασσας, τόνισε όµως πως δεν υπάρχει άλλη λύση: το ραδιενεργό ύδωρ που είχε συγκεντρωθεί στις εγκαταστάσεις του σταθµού έπρεπε να αποµακρυνθεί άµεσα, ώστε σε περίπτωση υπερθέρµανσης των αντιδραστήρων να υπάρξει αρκετός χώρος για τη ρίψη επιπλέον νερού.

Εδώ και ένα απόσπασμα συνέντευξης ενός εργαζόμενου στην TEPCO, που μιλά ανώνυμα στο Spiegel:

A Tokyo Electrical Power Company worker talks about the lack of controls on his company's nuclear power plants, its corporate culture of silence and TEPCO's reaction to the catastrophe.
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If my colleagues knew I was speaking with the press, they would despise me for it. My boss would certainly dismiss me. Therefore, I must remain anonymous.

I have worked for TEPCO for a long time, and always considered it to be a good company. But now when I go to work, I see everywhere -- on trains, on the streets -- the headlines on the illuminated adverts for magazines: "TEPCO is bad, bad, bad." That rankles because I know how much criticism it really deserves. It is time to speak out. In my opinion, TEPCO bears responsibility for the accident in Fukushima, but the state is just as guilty.

Regulations not Clear Enough

The media says that TEPCO had become entrenched on nuclear power. But that's not true. Initially the state was the driving force behind the introduction and expansion of nuclear power. When the power plants were built, many of the safety regulations were not clear enough. And the state, set on the development of nuclear power, laid them out in favor of the nuclear industry.

I know that new geo-scientific knowledge on earthquakes and tsunamis were ignored. In 2009, a research institute warned of the consequences of a disaster of equal magnitude to what has happened now. But the officials of the nuclear supervisory authority, NISA, didn't take it seriously.

In any case, controls in Japan don't work. NISA falls under the control of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, which also seeks to promote nuclear power. Isn't it strange that the same authority both supervises and promotes nuclear plants?

Moreover, the nuclear scientists from industry and NISA know each other all too well. The circle of nuclear scientists is very small, and many have studied together. I have witnessed this in the workplace myself.
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The nuclear department at TEPCO is already a very special group, forming a closed world. Some call it the "atomic village" -- a separate company within a company. On the practical level, there is almost no exchange between the "atomic village" and other TEPCO departments.

This closed village has until now been allowed to hide data and test reports from nuclear power plants; to falsify and invent.