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Japan’s genpatsu shinsai syndrome, and the shameless nuclear “experts”

In the past, on television only scholars who are proponents of nuclear power have given commentary as “experts”. We listened to them telling their fantastic lies and offering their impossibly optimistic predictions, and as a result the people, having been given none of the facts, have gone on living as normal right up to the edge of the collapse.  Now everything the “experts” told us has proved wrong, and the worst has happened.  What is remarkable is that these people who failed to predict the genpatsu shinsai syndrome are shameless enough to put on their “expert” masks, reappear on television, and give their commentaries on the accident.  The people responsible for the horror of this nuclear accident are the people who promoted nuclear power.  The people in the TV stations who brought in this criminal gang and put them on the air day after day are equally responsible. 

(Book: Newly translated into English) Japan’s Earthquake-Tsunami-Nuclear Disaster Syndrome: An Unprecedented Form of Catastrophe, Japan Focus 26 Sept 11, Hirose Takashi The seismologist Ishibashi Katsuhiko (presently Emeritus Professor at Kobe University) predicted that a nuclear power plant accident like the present one was possible, and issued warnings from the late ‘90s.  People had been warning of the danger of earthquake-caused nuclear accidents since the 1970s, but Ishibashi, from the specialized standpoint of seismology, proposed a new concept, which he calledgenpatsu shinsai [Translator’s note: this expression literally means Nuclear-Power-Plant-Earthquake Disaster.  As there is no English expression for this (the phenomenon itself is new) in this work we will render it as genpatsu shinsai syndrome.]. By this he meant a situation in which, as the damage from the earthquake widens, the situation is made doubly worse by nuclear radiation damage. It was in the hope of preventing this that he was issuing warnings. Ishibashi wrote many books on this, including Daichidouran no Jidai (The Age of Shifting Earth) (Iwanami Shinsho) and he is a very well-known scholar, so it is impossible that his warnings were unknown to the officials of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO)…….

A Mass Media that Reports Neither Facts nor Predictions

When I finished writing Nuclear Power Plant Time Bomb, I was hoping deep inside that my assertion that a genpatsu shinsai syndrome was possible would prove to be a mistake.  I was praying that nuclear power would be abolished, and the things that I had written would not come to pass…..

even though now that the genpatsu shinsai syndrome has actually occurred, the people of Japan seem not to have grasped the nature of the crisis.  Unbelievably, though anyone who looks can see that the situation is getting worse day by day, television and the other media keep repeating “there is no crisis”, “There’s nothing to worry about” over and over, and show no inclination to report the critical nature of what is happening at Fukushima Daiichi.  The obfuscations such as those I mentioned above, “The tsunami was beyond our expectation”, “Such small amounts of radiation have no effect on health”, and other statements by government people that obscure the dangers of exposure to radiation step outside the realm of the permissible.

In the past, on television only scholars who are proponents of nuclear power have given commentary as “experts”. We listened to them telling their fantastic lies and offering their impossibly optimistic predictions, and as a result the people, having been given none of the facts, have gone on living as normal right up to the edge of the collapse.  Now everything the “experts” told us has proved wrong, and the worst has happened.  What is remarkable is that these people who failed to predict the genpatsu shinsai syndrome are shameless enough to put on their “expert” masks, reappear on television, and give their commentaries on the accident.  The people responsible for the horror of this nuclear accident are the people who promoted nuclear power.  The people in the TV stations who brought in this criminal gang and put them on the air day after day are equally responsible.  Has there ever been even once that a television station warned the public that a nuclear power plant might be destroyed by an earthquake?  Or a station that warned of the danger of a tsunami?  After it has happened, even a child can do it.

Their ignorance and incompetence is proved day by day. …..

Excerpted from Chapter One of Hirose Takashi’s newly translated e-book, Fukushima Meltdown: The World’s First Earthquake-Tsunami Nuclear Disaster (Kindle Books). Translated by a team headed by C. Douglas Lummis. The e-book is available from Amazon at $9.99…..     http://japanfocus.org/-Hirose-Takashi/3606

September 26, 2011 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Uncategorized