BREAKING NEWS: Japanese Government Silent On Report Fukushima Workers Fled Plant After Disaster Despite Orders!

Exactly and well said.

You are spot on.

TEPCO never proposed a full evacuation.
March 1, 2012
The Media has widely alleged that TEPCO attempted a full-scale evacuation of all staff from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. However, this is a misrepresentation of the facts. On March 15, 2011, at approximately 6:30am, the former President Shimizu issued an order "to evacuate all staff except for the minimum number of staff needed". In response, the plant general manager ordered the "team leaders to appoint those who would be remaining". The staff of partner companies and TEPCO employees (approx. 650 people) who were not directly involved in the restoration work were temporarily moved to safer locations and the remaining staff (approx. 70 people) continued to implement the work.

The message TEPCO communicated to the Prime Minister's Office is that "TEPCO may begin considering the temporary evacuation of staff not directly related to the restoration work and who would eventually have to be evacuated anyway in light of the severe plant conditions". At around 4:30am on March 15th, former President Shimizu was summoned to the Prime Minister's Office and was questioned by former Prime Minister Kan concerning TEPCO's intentions regarding a possible site evacuation. Former President Shimizu replied that a full-scale evacuation was the last thing on his mind. Former Prime Minister Kan also subsequently related the contents of this conversation to the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors on April 18th, 25th, and May 2nd. Former President Shimizu also provided the same response at the press conference on April 13th that a "that a full-scale evacuation was the last thing on his mind".

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February 9,2012 Asahi Newspaper's "Trap of Prometheus" Article
January 13,2012 Asahi Newspaper's "Trap of Prometheus" Article

Source: [link to www.tepco.co.jp]

FYI: "Trap of Prometheus" is good to read!

This is the Question and we need to find the Answers!

Actually there is a Transscript of the "Official Communication"
on Tepcos Homepage but without the ability to read Japanese it is useless
for us.

Fact is there was a huge Chaos, a lot of misunderstandings and Panic,
fact is also that the majority of the People was not needed and/ or needed to get protected from Harm!

The Story get already discussed in the Japanese Media and i expect more Answers soon.

Yoshida-San was not the Person in Command for the Worker in Daiichi.

PS: i remember also a Statement from Tepco Officials regarding this Evacuation, i will try to locate it!

TEPCO never proposed a full evacuation.
March 1, 2012
The Media has widely alleged that TEPCO attempted a full-scale evacuation of all staff from Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. However, this is a misrepresentation of the facts. On March 15, 2011, at approximately 6:30am, the former President Shimizu issued an order "to evacuate all staff except for the minimum number of staff needed". In response, the plant general manager ordered the "team leaders to appoint those who would be remaining". The staff of partner companies and TEPCO employees (approx. 650 people) who were not directly involved in the restoration work were temporarily moved to safer locations and the remaining staff (approx. 70 people) continued to implement the work.

The message TEPCO communicated to the Prime Minister's Office is that "TEPCO may begin considering the temporary evacuation of staff not directly related to the restoration work and who would eventually have to be evacuated anyway in light of the severe plant conditions". At around 4:30am on March 15th, former President Shimizu was summoned to the Prime Minister's Office and was questioned by former Prime Minister Kan concerning TEPCO's intentions regarding a possible site evacuation. Former President Shimizu replied that a full-scale evacuation was the last thing on his mind. Former Prime Minister Kan also subsequently related the contents of this conversation to the Budget Committee of the House of Councillors on April 18th, 25th, and May 2nd. Former President Shimizu also provided the same response at the press conference on April 13th that a "that a full-scale evacuation was the last thing on his mind".

Related material and data

Topics/Details
February 9,2012 Asahi Newspaper's "Trap of Prometheus" Article
January 13,2012 Asahi Newspaper's "Trap of Prometheus" Article

Source: [link to www.tepco.co.jp]

FYI: "Trap of Prometheus" is good to read!

Let's not forget our brave south Korean ferry pilots and captain.

I have almost been killed, KIA, several times. The fear is crippling and desire to escape is real and powerful. Soldiers know that only pussies run, though.

A civilian, with a family? I don't know. I know there are still a lot of good men and women out there. I know here in Texas, heroes spring from the woodwork when things go bad.

I'm not sure about other places. I watched cops in California stand and watch a car burn with an entire family inside when they DID have a small window to egress the passengers but deemed the explosion risk to themselves too high.

Oh my God, the screams....horror. They just watched quietly till the screams stopped, then started on their reports before the ambulance or fire showed up.

This report is in direct conflict with what general manager Masao Yoshida said in his transcript. Read the original article, which started this thread.

I forgot to mention that the famous Fukushima 50 as well as the Japanese Self Defense Force was "on the Ground" at the 15'th of March 2011!

I guess you will have to decide who to believe.

Of course, at last we have to decide it by our own!

But you should not forget that M. Yoshida was a high Ranking Tepco Employee who run this nuclear Power Stations for many, many Years
without even a bit of Doubts about the Security for the Humankind!

Imo. it is wrong to see him as a unquestioned Hero.
(He was it at the moment of the Accident but ........!)

People fled their lives?
Why does this surprise anyone?

Nuclear power plants are trojan horses designed to destroy the nations that have them. The New World Order controls it all.

When will people see the bigger picture?

Ho-lee-shit...

You got a big fish here.

"Mr. Yoshida is widely viewed in Japan as one of the disaster’s few heroes for preventing the crisis from spinning out of control by defying an order to stop pouring seawater on the overheating reactors."

and later

"The disclosure of the incident three years after the fact is also certain to raise renewed criticism of the government and Tepco for failing even now to fully disclose what happened during the accident, which spewed radiation over a wide swath of northern Japan. In its report, The Asahi Shimbun, one of Japan’s largest newspapers, assailed the government for failing to make all records of the accident public even as it moves to restart Japan’s other, undamaged nuclear plants, which were idled after the accident for safety fears."

No wonder Atom is starting rambling Tepco propaganda threads. Tepco is having a PR doomsday and our little Engrish friend is shitting bricks over damage control.

"Instead, he said, many employees began commandeering Tepco buses and using their own cars to flee to the other nuclear plant, the newer Fukushima Daini, according to the report. He said about 90 percent of the plant’s workers left, though some did start returning that afternoon."

[link to www.nytimes.com]

(still way less than 50%)

Wellllllll shit.

This is the Question and we need to find the Answers!

Actually there is a Transscript of the "Official Communication"
on Tepcos Homepage but without the ability to read Japanese it is useless
for us.

Fact is there was a huge Chaos, a lot of misunderstandings and Panic,
fact is also that the majority of the People was not needed and/ or needed to get protected from Harm!

The Story get already discussed in the Japanese Media and i expect more Answers soon.

Yoshida-San was not the Person in Command for the Worker in Daiichi.

PS: i remember also a Statement from Tepco Officials regarding this Evacuation, i will try to locate it!

Gov’t: Fukushima released up to 181 Quadrillion Bq of cesium, Chernobyl was 105 Quadrillion — Radioactive material to flow from Japan “for years to come” — Fukushima radionuclides have now spread “throughout N. Pacific”

Gov’t Report: Fukushima radioactive material still raining down on U.S. in 2013 — Contamination “worked its way into local ecosystems” — ‘Incremental impacts’ from Fukushima radiation release — Health implications ‘incompletely understood’

50% jump in cancer in Fukushima children’s thyroids since last report 3 months ago — Now 90 cases suspected or confirmed — Gov’t Experts: “Difficult to determine” if cancers caused by nuclear disaster

[link to enenews.com]

I hope that you know that Fukushima-Daini, the Place where the Majority evacuated to, is less than 10Km away from Fukushima-Daiichi?

This People did not "run for the Hills"!

[link to www.nytimes.com]

Masao Yoshida, manager of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, died last year from cancer at age 58.

However, thanks to his transcript of the chilling March 2011 disaster, we now know exactly what happened.