tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post7949270914240200521..comments2024-03-27T00:22:35.272-07:00Comments on EXSKF: Independent Investigation Commission on Fukushima Accident: Confusion from Interference by PM Kan and His Ministers Made the Situation Much Worsearevamirpal::laprimaverahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10637620330944911600noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-65830748755806611152012-02-28T10:18:51.545-08:002012-02-28T10:18:51.545-08:00It is certainly true that the 'experts' fa...It is certainly true that the 'experts' failed completely in this crisis, beginning with the TEPCO president.<br />How Japan can ever develop the needed persons of independent integrity needed in such calamities is not obvious.<br />A system that prizes conformity above the welfare of its children seems unlikely to produce such characters.<br />Where is Musashi now that Japan really needs him and his ilk?netudianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726679291917155189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-31038052324707268522012-02-28T05:30:42.123-08:002012-02-28T05:30:42.123-08:00I don't know if he went to the plant and shout...I don't know if he went to the plant and shout at anybody. He went to Tepco headquarters, shouted at everyone and then he went to the plant to get information he was not getting from either Tepco or NISA or the NSC.<br /><br />In short, I don't think he was the hero he is trying to portray himself as, but if he had to take those decisions is because the supposed experts that should have been controlling the situation were missing in action.<br /><br />And I, for one, think we were lucky someone with a degree in Applied Physics was the Prime Minister at the moment, instead of the typical bureaucrat from law school.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-8714940807299898802012-02-28T02:32:19.524-08:002012-02-28T02:32:19.524-08:00Put Kan and the others on site at Fukushima Daiich...Put Kan and the others on site at Fukushima Daiichi to do manual labor and clean up. Why should only the poor and mentally handicapped do this when it is obvious those responsible are also mentally ill.kintamannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-87473060235105963542012-02-27T22:38:58.309-08:002012-02-27T22:38:58.309-08:00Whether or not he was a hero or an obstacle at the...Whether or not he was a hero or an obstacle at the time of the crisis, he was indeed critical of the industry (and more for a transition to alternative energy) in the weeks and months after 3/11. After publicaly favoring a transition away from nuclear power he was chastised and had to walk back his statement, claiming it was just personal opinion, Then he has to step down. Noda seems content to have TEPCO regulate itself back to status quo . . .Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-16925039770134307902012-02-27T22:37:07.805-08:002012-02-27T22:37:07.805-08:00Truly sad.
I believe that Kan wanted to do the rig...Truly sad.<br />I believe that Kan wanted to do the right thing when he was confronted with Japan's worst crisis since the end of WW2.<br />Yet he may have screwed things up even worse by his efforts.<br />I think he was let down by the weakness in the supporting staff. NISA and such were clearly useless to him as well as to the country in this emergency.<br />It may be that the 'nuclear village' had enough clout to ensure there was no effective oversight.<br />Hopefully the leaders of the village now understand that they badly harmed themselves, as well as all of Japan, by this effort.netudianthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11726679291917155189noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1765307840677473617.post-5110846209918941622012-02-27T22:20:18.730-08:002012-02-27T22:20:18.730-08:00> For example, the report says Prime Minister K...> For example, the report says Prime Minister Kan personally checked the size of the batteries to be brought to the plant.<br /><br />I had immediately to think of the propaganda press photos of Kim Il Jong at his visits to factories etc.<br /><br />Tepco, as a small revenge for all this bullying, should really have had vented in just that moment when Kan was helicopter-sightseeing the plant :)Atomfritznoreply@blogger.com