Source: Boiling Frogs Post
James Corbett
James Corbett
During the nuclear catastrophe at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power
plant in Japan’s northeast last March, the world watched in horror as
conditions in the plant deteriorated by the day. Despite public
reassurances that the situation was under control, we now know that
three of the plant’s reactors actually began meltdown within hours and
that plans were being made at the highest levels of the Japanese
government to evacuate Tokyo, the world’s most populous metropolitan
area.
In effect, the world was given a crash course in cascading nuclear
failure. What many do not know is that the damaged reactors were
designed by General Electric, rely on 40-year-old containment
technology, and are substantially similar to 32 reactors currently
operating around the world, including 23 in the United States.
This is our EyeOpener Report by James Corbett, presenting you with
the history of and GE’s role in development of boiling water reactors
and the Mark 1 containment vessel system used in the damaged Fukushima
reactor which has been focus of fierce criticism for at least 40 years,
and the criminal complicity of government regulators in failing to
enforce their own policies and regulations on these aging reactors, not
only in Japan, but in the US as well.
