What we’re seeing is a classic case of no one wanting to accept responsibility. Can’t blame them in this case, but ultimately the government has to shoulder the blame, as well as TEPCO. But that’s how it is: government relies on TEPCO, TEPCO relies on sub-contractrors, sub-contractors rely on TEPCO, and everyone looks to someone else for information and blame. This is always the way it is, but in this in case in particular it should NOT be… Japan needs a strong government and strong leaders, not weaklings in bed with corporations.

Now the #1 reactor is warming up

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE, MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS, AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

A lack of a trusted leader capable of sharing information about the scope of the disaster and the potential threats to people’s well-being has not been properly addressed therefore causing people to become angrier because of the inaccurate information they’re getting. The close ties between politicians and business executives have furthur complicated this management of the nuclear crisis. Japan’s leaders need strong, assertive leadership and skills they are not trained to have such as rallying the public, improvising solutions and especially cooperating with powerful bureaucracies. The less-than-straight talk is rooted in a conflict-averse culture that avoids direct references to unpleasantless. Even left leaning new outlets tightly control the flow of information about nuclear operations so as not to inflame opponents that include pacifists and environmentalits. Thus it is hard for even the Japanese govt to obtain good and crucial information from the company, never mind international monitoring networks like the IAEA.

Here’s one of the “it-was-a-mistake” stories.  I don’t believe anything out of Japan any more.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/japan-officials-apologize-radiation-nuclear-scare/story?id=13233199

WILL SOMEONE THE HELL PLEASE TELL US THE TRUTH?!?!?

Our country doesn’t fix things anymore. Collectively, we just bitch and moan, expecting someone else to make a decision, which is invariably the incorrect one and then blame them for the decision made. Three-Mile Island was a problem and one that was fixable. Instead of making necessary adjustments ot processes and procedures, we abandoned it and then collectively whined some more when the only other readily available source of realiable energy was deemed too dirty to use (coal). I will give the Japanese credit–they are businesslike in their reaction. They’ll get the problems fixed much like this country used to do.

It is hard to have confidence in anything emanating from the TEPCO management at this point. From falsifying safety data, to sending workers in to work in their street shoes, to publishing incorrect radiation readings – TEPCO takes the cake. They are, sadly, a living, ongoing tableau of Murphy’s Law in action. Sending in young untrained lesser-paid workers from a subcontracter into the most highly radiated area, not providing them with adequate footwear, and not instructing them to respond to their dosometer alarms alone is criminal.

Admittledy there is no realistic alternative source of energy at the moment for the country. But that should not stop one from considering the fact that if nuclear fission goes wrong, it goes wrong for 10.000 years.