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An interesting lesson on how reality is obvious only with the right attitude and fundamental training. The situation in Fukushima was so bad so quickly that technicians removed batteries from their cars hours after the Tsunami in a desperate attempt to save the plants. Weeks later, and due to intentional misinformation, many even in the Cellar were still denying that reality. Things were so desperate, even two weeks after the Tsunami, that employees were still taking life threatening risks to save Japan from the plants. The situation was that desperate even weeks later.
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I don't mean to be rude, but, um...aren't they supposed to be smarter than the average bear? Sorry if that's waisis.
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They were not dumb. Despite so many comments here, Fukushima workers were trying to avert something far worse than what I had posted. Due to intentional misinformation (in the tradition of Saddam's WMDs, and BP's Macondo well), so many were still denying reality weeks after facts were presented bluntly (and without doubt) in the Cellar. Even Urbane Guerrilla was taking cheap shots a month later.
Curious are so many who remained in outright denial of a nuclear meltdown when facts with numbers made reality so obvious. Demonstrates that propaganda works so well. This thread makes interesting reading now that we know a minority (who demands hard facts with numbers) saw reality so quickly. A meltdown was obvious within days of the tsunami. But only to the few who have learned how to remove reality from so much propaganda. Who learned why subjective facts are so akin to lying.
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What is not reported is why the Japanese government only recently obtained these numbers. Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) was doing what any business school graduate would do. Lie. Pretend everything is under control.
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And so many actually believed those intentional lies. Even denied that TEPCO considered surrendering and evacuating Fukushima.
85% of all problems are traceable to top management - especially when they forget why hard facts and the numbers are so important. One should learn from this recent history. Ask yourself what you thought back then. Then go read the thread to see how accurately you really saw things.
Half a year later, and TEPCO is still slowly leaking facts about the severity of multiple meltdowns. We can only know this. What actually happened is far worse than what we know. Or what was posted in The Cellar. There were quite a few heroes. The ones who were heroes - we don't know any of their names. Nor the names of so many who were killed or are suffering radiation poisoning - from multiple meltdowns that were not happening.