AP: Radioactive material spews into air & sea at Fukushima — Asahi: Exposure levels spike — Nuclear Expert: We don’t even know where 3 melted reactor cores are… it’s not under control at all; Still getting worse 3 years later (AUDIO)
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March 11th, 2014
NBC News, Mar. 10, 2014: ‘U.S. Nuclear Agency Hid Concerns, Hailed Safety Record as Fukushima Melted‘
The NRC spokespeople sometimes had trouble following the public debate, because for days their computers were blocked by security rules from accessing Twitter and YouTube.
[David McIntyre, Mar. 12, 2011:] Just saw an incoherent discussion on cnn by Bill Nye the science guy who apparently knows zilcho about reactors and an idiot weatherman who said Hydrogen explosion? Pfft. I’m not buying it.
His boss sent back the following reply, correcting the staffer and explaining plans to ask the Obama administration to help blunt critical news coverage.
[Eliot Brenner, Mar. 12, 2011:] There is a good chance it was a hydrogen explosion that took the roof off that building, though we are not saying that publicly. […] I have just reached out to CNN and asked them to call (former NRC Chairman Nils) Diaz, and reached out to push the white house yet again to start talking on background or getting out in front of some of this crap.
FOIA Nuclear Regulatory Commission (pdf), March 12, 2011: Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1- explosion noted at site. Substructure visible which suggests blowout panels. Status of drywell, level, pressure, and power still unknown. CIA suggested hydrogen explosion, no evidence to support.
