Saturday, December 17, 2011

Friday, December 16, 2011 State of Cold Shutdown: Hosono Says "No One Knows Where the Fuel Is, But I'm Confident It is Cooled"

http://ex-skf.blogspot.com/2011/12/state-of-cold-shutdown-hosono-says-no.html

Friday, December 16, 2011


State of Cold Shutdown: Hosono Says "No One Knows Where the Fuel Is, But I'm Confident It is Cooled"

In a typical display of utter disregard for the general public, the Noda administration announced last night that there would be no more joint press conference where reporters could meet with TEPCO people and the government officials from the Cabinet Office and other relevant ministries and agencies, receive updates and ask questions.

The last night's joint press conference is to be the last one, now that Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant is officially in a "state of a cold shutdown" and the accident has been decreed by the government to be "over".

Here's what Minister in charge of the accident and Minister of the Environment Goshi Hosono had to say last night in the last joint press conference, as reported by Nifty News (12/16/2011):

...細野環境相は「どこに燃料があるのか、原子炉をあけてみなければ誰もわからない」と不安な部分ものぞかせたものの 野田首相に続いて、冷温停止という認識を再確認。「燃料の場所がどこにあるにしても、冷却されているという状態」と述べた。

Minister of the Environment Hosono expressed some concern that "No one knows where the fuel is until we open the reactors", but he reaffirmed the cold shutdown, following the lead of his prime minister. He said, "No matter where the fuel is, it is being cooled".
Trust us, take our word for it, he says.


13 comments:

Anonymous said...
For anyone, taking "their word" on the status of a disaster NO ONE has ever dealt with before, with corium which has left the containment vessel, with devices not able to measure tempurature of fuel --its not realistic to say "cold shutdown." How can anyone even say "it is being cooled" when no one knows WHERE it is--the mass can not be measured for degrees of heat -- they dont have a location to TEST! If the people of Japan believe THAT-we have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell to them.. Japan needs to take responsibility for Fukushima, ask for international assistance, and stop radiating its citizens. Taking charge of their own fate!
Anonymous said...
It is extremely embarrassing to me... as a human... Now we have a status of cold shutdown? More likely the pope wants to marry next week to buddha! Unbelievable!

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