{"id":18518,"date":"2016-03-06T15:30:10","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18518"},"modified":"2016-03-06T15:30:10","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:30:10","slug":"former-pm-admits-future-existence-of-japan-was-at-stake-as-mutations-appear-in-fukushima-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18518","title":{"rendered":"Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest<\/a><\/h3>\n
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“The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0admits Japan’s prime minister at the time of the 2011 quake and tsunami, revealing that the\u00a0country came within a “paper-thin margin” of a nuclear disaster\u00a0<\/strong>requiring the evacuation of 50 million people. Naoto Kan expressed satisfaction at the\u00a0three TEPCO executives facing charges over negligence<\/a>, but this shocking admission comes\u00a0as AFP reports,<\/a>\u00a0conservation group Greenpeace warned that\u00a0“signs of mutations in trees and DNA-damaged worms beginning to appear,”<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0while\u00a0“vast stocks of radiation” mean that forests cannot be decontaminated<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Telegraph<\/a>\u00a0to mark the fifth anniversary of the tragedy, Naoto Kan described the panic and disarray at the highest levels of the Japanese government as it fought to control multiple meltdowns at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.<\/p>\n

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He said\u00a0he considered evacuating the capital, Tokyo, along with all other areas within 160 miles of the plant, and declaring martial law<\/strong>.\u00a0\u201cThe future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,\u201d\u00a0<\/u><\/strong>he said. \u201cSomething on that scale, an evacuation of 50 million, it would have been like a losing a huge war.\u201d<\/div>\n

Mr Kan admitted he was frightened and said he got \u201cno clear information\u201d out of Tepco, the plant\u2019s operator.\u00a0He was \u201cvery shocked\u201d by the performance of Nobuaki Terasaka, his own government\u2019s key nuclear safety adviser.<\/strong><\/u>\u00a0\u201cWe questioned him and he was unable to give clear responses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe asked him \u2013 do you know anything about nuclear issues? And he said no, I majored in economics.\u201d<\/strong><\/u><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we got the report that power had been cut and the coolant had stopped working, that sent a shiver down my spine,\u201d Mr Kan said. \u201cFrom March 11, when the incident happened, until the 15th, the effects [of radioactive contamination] were expanding geographically.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Former-PM Admits “Future Existence Of Japan Was At Stake” As Mutations Appear In Fukushima Forest “The future existence of Japan as a whole was at stake,”\u00a0admits Japan’s prime minister at the time of the 2011 quake and tsunami, revealing that the\u00a0country came within a “paper-thin margin” of a nuclear disaster\u00a0requiring the evacuation of 50 million […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[340,452,507,9395,579,580,669,3425,4318],"class_list":["post-18518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-fukushima","tag-japan","tag-martial-law","tag-nuclear-disaster","tag-nuclear-power","tag-nuclear-radiation","tag-reality","tag-tepco","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18518"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18519,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18518\/revisions\/18519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}