Japan battles against cover up and nuclear meltdown
Japan battles against cover up and nuclear meltdown TOKYO -- Behind Japan's escalating nuclear crisis sits a scandal-ridden energy industry in a comfy relationship with government regulators often willing to overlook safety lapses. Leaks of radioactive steam and workers contaminated with radiation are just part of the disturbing catalog of accidents that have occurred over the years and been belatedly reported to the public, if at all. In one case, workers hand-mixed uranium in stainless steel buckets, instead of processing by machine, so the fuel could be reused, exposing hundreds of workers to radiation. Two later died. "Everything is a secret," said Kei Sugaoka, a former nuclear power plant engineer in Japan who now lives in California. "There's not enough transparency in the industry." Japan's Nuclear Power Industry Has History Of Scandals www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/17/japan-nuclear-power-scandals_n_836970.html Japan Reaches Out to U.S. in 'Race Against the Clock' to Avert Nuclear Disaster Japan's nuclear safety agency has raised the rating of the country's nuclear accident from 4 to 5 on a 7-level international scale. Japan's rating of the accident is lower than any other agency or country!! www.foxnews.com/world/2011/03/18/japan-reaches-race-clock-avert-nuclear-disaster/ QUAKE RAVAGED JAPAN BATTLES AGAINST NUCLEAR MELTDOWN France's ASN nuclear safety authority said the accident could be classified as a level 5 or 6 on the international scale of 1 to 7, putting it on a par with the 1979 U.S. Three Mile Island meltdown, higher than the Japanese authorities' rating. au.news.yahoo.com/japan-tsunami/a/-/world/9010324/quake-ravaged-japan-battles-against-nuclear-meltdown/ UPDATE 2-French nuclear agency rates Japan accident 5 or 6 www.bestgrowthstock.com/stock-market-news/2011/03/14/update-2-french-nuclear-agency-rates-japan-accident-5-or-6/ EPA deploys more radiation monitors to the West Coast www.mercurynews.com/science/ci_17621522?nclick_check=1 A Whiff of Radiation Arrives, Psychological Impact Deemed Worse Than Anything Else sfist.com/2011/03/18/a_whiff_of_radiation_arrives_psycho.php
