Reactor Designer: “It was a nuclear explosion” at Fukushima Unit 3; Plutonium scattered after blast — ABC: “There’s willful denial and lying going on here, even at the highest levels” (AUDIO)

Reactor Designer: “It was a nuclear explosion” at Fukushima Unit 3; Plutonium scattered after blast — ABC: “There’s willful denial and lying going on here, even at the highest levels” (AUDIO)




Published: November 5th, 2013 at 7:23 pm ET
By ENENews




ABC Australia, June 26, 2013 (At 8:15 in): Even
[Japan's Prime Minister Naoto Kan] can’t get answers. There’s one point he’s
back in his office watching reactor 3 explode, there’s black smoke. “What’s
going on,” asks Kan. There was silence. No one had any answer. But then over at
Tepco, they’re watching that too. They know what’s going on, but the president
of Tepco basically says, “Well, don’t tell them that, tell them something
different.” Basically tell them it was a hydrogen explosion. So there’s willful
denial and lying going on here, even at the highest levels. Even the Prime
Minister can’t get the answers.





Akio Takahashi, a senior Tepco official: “We do not know
whether it was a hydrogen explosion, but since the government–the Nuclear and
Industrial Safety Agency–is saying it is a hydrogen explosion, we can just say
so–a hydrogen explosion, can’t we?”





‘Fukushima‘ by ABC correspondent Mark Willacy, published
July 1, 2013 (Excerpt): ‘All right. I agree. This is fine,’ replied [Tepco]
President Shimizu. And that was exactly what happened. At a press conference
later that day, a TEPCO public-relations official said with utmost confidence,
it was a hydrogen explosion.’ But the exact cause of the Reactor 3 blast has
even now not been conclusively determined. Some have speculated it could have
been a nuclear explosion — just like Chernobyl. ‘I watched video of the Reactor
3 explosion,’ said veteran Japanese nuclear-reactor designer Setsuo Fujiwara.
‘There was an orange flash, which suggests the temperature must have been
thousands of degrees centigrade before the explosion. Then there was black
smoke.’ Fujiwara insisted to me that a hydrogen explosion created white smoke
and steam, as witnessed after the Reactor 1 building was torn apart. He
continued, ‘The second piece of evidence is that plutonium was scattered about
after this blast. Plutonium is consistent with the mixed oxide fuel [used in
Reactor 3]. The third point is that the Reactor 3 building was bent like candy,
unlike the Reactor 1 building, where the steel framework remained intact. So
this could only mean it was a nuclear explosion.’





Full ABC broadcast available here

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