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Fukushima Emergency what can we do?: WELL, THEY'VE LOST THEIR ROBOT AND MORE LATE NEWS...In the ensuing weeks, hundreds of Japanese workers and soldiers battled to contain the crisis. Their arsenal of weapons was often improvised, low-tech and underpowered. Helicopters dumped buckets of water over the plant to cool it. Electricians laid a cable to connect the plant to a power source miles away in what may have been the world’s longest extension cord.
Japan falls far on press freedom list
PARIS – Japan plummeted to 53rd from the previous year’s 22nd in the 2013 press freedom ranking released Wednesday by Reporters Without Borders, a Paris-based nonprofit organization.
Japan “has been affected by a lack of transparency and almost zero respect for access to information on subjects directly or indirectly related to Fukushima,” the group said in a statement, referring to the nuclear catastrophe. “This sharp fall should sound an alarm,” it added
In regards to Fukushima, I fear what they aren't reporting is far worse than what they are. This story came out a few months ago:
I hope i'm wrong, but i suspect it may already be a done deal.
I knew I smelled a rat here.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/world/asia/rat-at-fukushima-plant.html?_r=0
Before you guys flame me, be honest, you would have said the same thing, given the opportunity