Some of what you say is true (e.g. 10,000 miners) and some of what you say is not (they made no attempt to measure the radiation on the roof) and some of what you say is irrelevant (they deduced that they wouldn’t be able to use machines on the roof due to radiation - they didn’t scratch their heads and wonder. The point was they realized they couldn’t use machines.)
I think the Soviet response was brutal and it still left 1.6 million people living in contaminated zones in ‘86. Highly radioactive mushrooms were just halted at the UK border last week - still heavy contamination showing up 26 years after Chernobyl.
But TEPCO asked to abandon Fukushima. The only ones able to do anything to spare their country and the rest of the world from 3 core melt downs and 4 spent fuel pool melts asked to abandon ship. The brutal Soviet response was a wild bid to save the ship - and partially worked to spare the people so much more damage. TEPCO and the face saving Government response is to cover their backsides and downplay the dangers and is presently on course to do so much more damage. Hope they rethink their strategy.
Oh and they do lie, and their own people are tired of it, and for the first time in their culture, a protest movement is brewing. TEPCO, the Japanese Government, the IAEA have one common goal - to promote nuclear power at all costs. You have the same goal. Why would anyone who knew how the IAEA performed re Chernobyl bother to read their ‘report’ on Fukushima? When the Japanese heard that the IAEA was sending a delegation, a blogger acquired the names of the delegates from various countries and asked readers to contribute anything known about them to see if this was real help being offered or if it was a PR effort. You can imagine their disappointment to learn from collected excerpts from IAEA and related websites that the delegates were PR.
Say, why is it that no insurance company would ever consider insuring a nuclear plant? Don’t bother replying - I know the answer.
You ascribe to me the goal of “promoting nuclear power at all costs.”
Yea, right. You’re another idiot conspiracy theorist, and I’m in on the conspiracy. Jesus, I get tired of you clowns.
So, lemme ask you this: Do you believe that we didn’t land on the moon? That Apollo 11 was a Hollywood back-lot job? Of course you do. The government lies. All the time. About everything.