Precisely what I have been trying to tell you now for about 3 days. They have no clue to know what is going on inside the reactor. Absolutely no clue at all. We had to wait 5 years to learn that TMI had suffered a significant partial meltdown. In that scenario, it is always prudent to assume the worse. Why would you assume the best if you knew no one on the planet had a clue ?
“We had to wait 5 years to learn that TMI had suffered a significant partial meltdown.”
Precisely why we cannot believe anything told to the press by the managers of TEPCO, the company that owns and operates the plants.
TMI’s owners got their PR people on it immediately. The word that went out to the public was—”We were twenty minutes away from a meltdown.”
“In that scenario, it is always prudent to assume the worse. Why would you assume the best if you knew no one on the planet had a clue?”
For the same reason why Reagan said: “trust, but verify”.
I trust that the Japanese will be able to keep their reactors under control, until there’s evidence that they have lost control. This has not happened at present.
I see no reason to assume anything until there is evidence backing up that statement.
Of interest...US companies are selling out of potassium iodide.
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