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2011-11-13

The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN

Vatic Note:  Once again, this author leaves little to be discussed since he does such an incredible job ferreting out truth.  Just to remind everyone as to who was in charge of security for those plants and used  the Stux virus on Iran for their computers.   The same software was  used on the Japanese computers.  WE also covered, through Bruecke, why the Japanese were singled out, and it was because, like Libya, they were converting from private banking to public banking and while Libya used the backed by Gold system, Japan was going to do what JFK was going to do before he was assassinated which was going to create their own money and  credit with no interest payments for their debt.   What we are seeing here is a decades long pattern of attacking any nation that stands against the Rothschild banking interests, combined with their oil interests and corporate military industrial complex interests.   Enough said, check this out and buy his book.  I don't make any money off of this recommendation,  only the satisfaction of having truth reach many if not all the people on the planet.  

The Fukushima story you didn't hear on CNN

by Greg Palastfor FreePress.org
Friday, November 11, 2011
"Completely and Utterly Fail in an Earthquake"

I've seen a lot of sick stuff in my career, but this was sick on a new level.

Here was the handwritten log kept by a senior engineer at the nuclear power plant:

Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. . . . In fact, the plant was riddled with problems that, no way on earth, could stand an earth- quake. The team of engineers sent in to inspect found that most of these components could "completely and utterly fail" during an earthquake.

"Utterly fail during an earthquake." And here in Japan was the quake and here is the utter failure.

The warning was in what the investigations team called The Notebook, which I'm not supposed to have.  Good thing I've kept a copy anyway, because the file cabinets went down with my office building ....

WORLD TRADE CENTER TOWER 1, FIFTY-SECOND FLOOR
NEW YORK, 1986


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Two senior nuclear plant engineers were spilling out their souls and files on our huge conference table, blowing away my government investigations team with the inside stuff about the construction of the Shoreham, New York, power station.

The meeting was secret. Very secret. Their courage could destroy their careers: No engineering firm wants to hire a snitch, even one who has saved thousands of lives. They could lose their jobs; they could lose everything. They did. That's what happens. Have a nice day.

On March 12 this year, as I watched Fukushima melt, I knew:  the "SQ" had been faked.  Anderson Cooper said it would all be OK.  He'd flown to Japan, to suck up the radiation and official company bullshit.  The horror show was not the fault of Tokyo Electric, he said, because the plant was built to withstand only an 8.0 earthquake on the Richter scale, and this was 9.0.  Anderson must have been in the gym when they handed out the facts.  The 9.0 shake was in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, 90 miles away.  It was barely a tenth of that power at Fukushima.

I was ready to vomit.  Because I knew who had designed the plant, who had built it and whom Tokyo Electric Power was having rebuild it:  Shaw Construction.  The latest alias of Stone & Webster, the designated builder for every one of the four new nuclear plants that the Obama Administration has approved for billions in federal studies.

But I had The Notebook, the diaries of the earthquake inspector for the company.  I'd squirreled it out sometime before the Trade Center went down.  I shouldn't have done that.  Too bad.

All field engineers keep a diary. Gordon Dick, a supervisor, wasn't sup- posed to show his to us. I asked him to show it to us and, reluctantly, he directed me to these notes about the "SQ" tests.

SQ is nuclear-speak for "Seismic Qualification." A seismically qualified nuclear plant won't melt down if you shake it. A "seismic event" can be an earthquake or a Christmas present from Al Qaeda. You can't run a nuclear reactor in the USA or Europe or Japan without certified SQ.

This much is clear from his notebook: This nuclear plant will melt down in an earthquake. The plant dismally failed to meet the Seismic I (shaking) standards required by U.S. and international rules.

Here's what we learned: Dick's subordinate at the nuclear plant, Robert Wiesel, conducted the standard seismic review. Wiesel flunked his company. No good. Dick then ordered Wiesel to change his report to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, change it from failed to passed. Dick didn't want to make Wiesel do it, but Dick was under the gun himself, acting on direct command from corporate chiefs. From The Notebook:
Wiesel was very upset. He seemed very nervous. Very agitated. [He said,] "I believe these are bad results and I believe it's reportable," and then he took the volume of federal regulations from the shelf and went to section 50.55(e), which describes reportable deficiencies at a nuclear plant and [they] read the section together, with Wiesel pointing to the appropriate paragraphs that federal law clearly required [them and the company] to report the Category II, Seismic I deficiencies.

Wiesel then expressed his concern that he was afraid that if he [Wiesel] reported the deficiencies, he would be fired, but that if he didn't report the deficiencies, he would be breaking a federal law. . . .
The law is clear. It is a crime not to report a safety failure. I could imagine Wiesel standing there with that big, thick rule book in his hands, The Law. It must have been heavy. So was his paycheck. He weighed the choices: Break the law, possibly a jail-time crime, or keep his job.

What did Wiesel do? What would you do?

Why the hell would his company make this man walk the line? Why did they put the gun to his head, to make him conceal mortal danger? It was the money. It's always the money. Fixing the seismic problem would have cost the plant's owner half a billion dollars easy. A guy from corporate told Dick, "Bob is a good man. He'll do what's right. Don't worry about Bob."

That is, they thought Bob would save his job and career rather than rat out the company to the feds.

But I think we should all worry about Bob. The company he worked for, Stone & Webster Engineering, built or designed about a third of the nuclear plants in the United States.

>From the fifty-second floor we could look at the Statue of Liberty. She didn't look back.

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3 comments:

  1. This article caused me to do some checking. For one thing, the Richter Scale is no longer used; they now use the Moment Magnitude Scale. You probably already knew that.
    Well, here's something you probably didn't know. Japan and Taiwan are the only countries in the world that also use the Seismic Intensity Scale, which measures the earthquake intensity in various places.
    I was unable to find the SIS for the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant, but the SIS for Sendai was 7.2. The SIS for the power plant would depend a variety of factors, but it's unlikely that the SIS would be more than 8, and would probably be close to 7.2. An earthquake of that magnitude is just a quickly forgotten topic of conversation.
    For a meltdown to occur in an earthquake of that nature would be criminal.
    I was in Taiwan during the 9.1 earthquake of Sept. 21, 1999. There were power outages in northern Taiwan due to damaged transformers in central Taiwan (near epicenter. Two high-rise buildings in northern Taiwan toppled, partly due to criminal fraud for which the perps were prosecuted. Still, all of Taiwan's nuclear power plants, including those close to epicenter, remained intact.

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  2. Jim Stone has clearly shown that the magnitude of the earthquake was much lower than reported by the MSM. It was the tsunami which caused the devastation.

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  3. Right, but notice the Tsunami did not act like a tsunami. In fact, according to many reports the evidence is it was a underwater nuke set off that caused the tsunami. These are undeniable belly crawling, perverted, genuine pond scum that are doing all this because they "can". With all that wealth and power and no character of any kind, this is what happens. Psychopaths with money should be shot. They are a menace to the planet in general and all living beings on it specifically.

    They are emotionally stunted old people with the maturity of an 8 year old if we are lucky. More like 4 or 5, but I am being generous. They have no concept of anything escoteric or aesthetically pleasing.

    I genuinely believe all these illum families and black nobility bloodlines are pedophiling their own children at an early age in order to better control them and when they can't they kill them. I believe that is what happened a couple of years ago with the young Nathan Rothschild.

    When you pedophile children, they become stuck at whatever emotional age they were at the time. So they never ever grow up to be like adults with limits set, morality introduced and maturity gaining with each year. That does not happen to pedophiled childre unfortunately, so now all of these cretins are pedophiles themselves.

    Sick puppies, let me tell you and they want to run the world???? Forget it. They can't even run to the grocery store if their lives depended on it. They are clueless and useless. That is why they do what they do, to make themselves feel better.

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