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Masao Yoshida, Director of Fukushima Daichii Nuclear Plant, Has Died
Doofus writes "Masao Yoshida, director of the Daichii Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, has passed away. Colleagues and politicos in Japan praised his disobedience during the post-tsunami meltdown and credited him with preventing much more widespread and intense damage. From the article: 'On March 12, a day after the tsunami, Mr. Yoshida ignored an order from Tepco headquarters to stop pumping seawater into a reactor to try and cool it because of concerns that ocean water would corrode the equipment. Tepco initially said it would penalize Mr. Yoshida even though Sakae Muto, then a vice president at the utility, said it was a technically appropriate decision. Mr. Yoshida received no more than a verbal reprimand after then-Prime Minister Naoto Kan defended the plant chief, the Yomiuri newspaper reported. "I bow in respect for his leadership and decision-making," Kan said Tuesday in a message posted on his Twitter account.'"
Mecha Yoshi will rise from the depths of the seawater pump reservoir and destroy us all.
In an emergency the on site staff should full control over what is going on.
Every case of cancer in Japan for the next 200 years is going to be blamed on Fukushima.
Have you ever written a grammatically correct sentence in your entire life?
Still no deaths due to radiation. Nuclear power still remains the safest, most powerful energy source yet known, so long as the government isn't running the show (see Chernobyl).
"The illness was unrelated to the radiation exposure after the nuclear accident, according to Tepco".
Well, we surely believe anything Tepco says, don't we?
Like science, is measured one funeral at a time.
What TFS doesn't mention was that he died of esophageal cancer. And he got it after nine months of being at the power plant after the accident.
TEPCO claims the cancer is not related to the accident. Of course they would.
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be."
How many years did he work at the plant?
WHOOPS!
Have you ever thought about the possibility, that there are some people visiting slashdot, whose native language is NOT english? ...or am I feeding a troll again?
And take that a bit further. Have you ever thought about the possibility, that such people MAY NOT be speaking english perfectly?
In an emergency the on site staff should full control over what is going on.
u japanize?
also, it was reported that it probably isn't radiation from the accident, as the illness is the type that would have had to mature for years if it was from radiation.
that's not to say of course that there wasn't a covered up radioactive godzilla attack earlier!
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
He kept saying Gojira...Gojira...Gojira.
But what he did was heroic. Especially in a society that empahsizes respect for superiors. In the US, we wouldn't think twice about second guessing a higher up if we thought there was an inherent risk but this is almost unheard of in the Asian culture. Anata ni keii, Yoshida-san.
Seppuku
More often than you do.
Far, Far more often than you could.
I hope the producers can get a new director. If they get one soon perhaps this can be in theaters next summer?
I hope they can sign Michael Bay, I want to see huge explosions.
not going to play is ingesting win out; either the mov3 any equipment fucking numbers, = 1400 NetBSD of open-sour6ce.
Nuclear power still remains the safest, most powerful energy source yet known, so long as the government isn't running the show (see Chernobyl).
Are you seriously arguing that the public sector is inherently less responsible than the private sector, based on a single data-point?
Maybe you should look more into what caused the Fukushima disaster: It was a serious of bad design decisions for the active cooling system all made by General Electric and TEPCO, failure to report and explain design changes that made them even less safe, falsification of safety records, and failure to heed engineer warnings about flood risks from tsunamis.
Three Mile Island happened because of workers failing to obey safety regulations, bad design in relying on turbines still being active for cooling, and bad design of the indicator light for the stuck valve -- all failures in the private sector side of things.
Of course, those are only two points of a data. I'd be a hypocrite if I insisted with such a small sample set that this demonstrated that the private industry was less responsible. However, I think that's more than enough to say that the notion that nuclear power is safe unless the government comes in and screws things up is demonstrably false. Private industry is just as capable of screwing up nuclear power.
Also, in review of all of these disasters, there was nothing inherently economic about the nature of them -- all were human failures led by failure to follow established procedures, failures of engineering, and/or cost-cutting or blame-avoiding. These kind of failures are rife in both the private and public sectors. Blaming "teh gubbermint" is just intellectual laziness and/or the product of viewing the world through a partisan lens.
If it's for-profit but free, you're not the customer -- you're the product (e.g., the Slashdot Beta's "audience").
"clean relatively safe nuclear power." I don't think I would consider "safe" any industry where an accident or malpractice could result in a place being uninhabitable for 10,000 - 100,000 years. It is immoral to saddle future generations with this burden, however slight you perceive the risk to be. Nuclear apologists need to wake up. Human error is always going to be a problem. Untill the world gets its act together and starts deploying more CANDU type reactors which by design cannot meltdown, I for one will still fight against nuclear power. You have an industry that deploys proven flawed designs from 40-60 years ago, and then runs the plants way longer than recommended lifetimes. The way the world currently does nuclear power, more accidents are inevitable. http://equipmentbds.blogspot.com/">please visit it
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ikiru ... Inspired by her, Watanabe realizes that it is not too late for him and that he still can do something. He then dedicates his remaining time and energy to accomplish one worthwhile achievement before his life ends. Through his tireless and persistent efforts, he is able to overcome the stagnation of bureaucracy and turn a mosquito-infested cesspool into a children's playground. The last third of the film takes place during Watanabe's wake, as his former co-workers try to figure out what caused such a dramatic change in his behavior. ..."
"Ikiru (..., "To Live") is a 1952 Japanese film co-written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. The film examines the struggles of a minor Tokyo bureaucrat and his final quest for meaning. The film is inspired by the Leo Tolstoy short story "The Death of Ivan Ilyich".[1] It stars Takashi Shimura as Kanji Watanabe.
Thank you, Masao Yoshida, for making the Fukushima disaster less bad then it could have been, despite personal career risk. I hope you are on to better things.
Another person who prevented nuclear fallout of a possible WWIII:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasili_Arkhipov
"Vasili Alexandrovich Arkhipov (...) (30 January 1926 -- 19 August 1998) was a Soviet Navy officer. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, he prevented the launch of a nuclear torpedo and thereby prevented a possible nuclear war.[1] Thomas Blanton (then director of the National Security Archive) said in 2002 that "a guy called Vasili Arkhipov saved the world".[1]"
How close we often skate to the edge without realizing it...
A 21st century issue: the irony of technologies of abundance in the hands of those still thinking in terms of scarcity.
Fine but I am getting the fuck out of here and it is on you.
"Daichii"? Really?
Maybe his cancer was caused by virii.
How is this news? Unless the radiation from the accident means we have to bury him at Yucca Mt. in a huge lead coffin. Then it's just a guy who died in Japan.
Keep walking, nothing to see here.