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Monday, June 17, 2013

Crisis In Fukushima? Or Propaganda?

Here's a piece from Fairewinds Energy Propaganda Education pointing out that Japan hasn't received American expertise very well in assisting with Fukushima.

Let's dig in...

The author implies that PowerPlus of Anaheim, CA has some special decontamination expertise that was refused by the government. From their website, I see no evidence of decontamination expertise, their primary business seems to be power supply.  Perhaps they cleaned a car from an exclusion zone, but how did they do it?  Was it pressure washing (most likely)?  That doesn't take much expertise.

And then there's the language barrier and extra expense.

There's a "remarkable" (not really, standard fear mongering tactic) absence of actual radiation levels in the piece.  We're shown a photo of some folks sitting on a "hot" bench in order to portray them as incompetent. How "hot" was the bench?

How contaminated was the school driveway?  The adjoining grass?  The patches of fungus?

The single "hottest" spot found was "five times the threshold rate used in US nuclear power plants to determine when to start limiting radiation worker exposure times".  What does that mean?

Give us a number, Obfuscator!

U.S. nuclear power plants practice ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable).  They are always limiting worker exposure times in some sense.  Can you make out what the instrument is reading in the photo?  I can't clearly....why not?  It might be a 12.0 or something, but I can't make out the units.  If you want to photo something as evidence of a claim, shouldn't the photo clearly support the claim?

Rather than a crisis in Fukushima, we have a propaganda crisis.


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