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by kagemusha » Wed Feb 06, 2013 7:57 am
"I was amazed at how much work had been done to clear up the site and the high aspiration to make the site the safest in the world."
World Health Organization estimates that 7.8 million people died worldwide in 2008, so 130 out of that number is quite small, she added
by yanpa » Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:02 am
kagemusha wrote:http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/05/business/lady-judge-fukushima-japan-nuclear/"I was amazed at how much work had been done to clear up the site and the high aspiration to make the site the safest in the world."
She looks like King Richard III's mistress.
by Coligny » Wed Feb 06, 2013 8:55 am
Judge, a 66-year-old lawyer and businesswoman with dual British and American citizenship, has been called in by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the company behind the Fukushima, to help relaunch Japan's nuclear power program, which was suspended completely in March 2011.
by Russell » Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:27 am
Around that time (1987), Barbara Thomas was also involved with Lincoln Savings and Loan Association and American Continental Corporation, two companies whose collapse in 1989 would cause a major financial scandal. Both companies were run by Charles Keating, for whom she lobbied with the SEC in 1988. Later she was named in a resulting class action suit and settled out of court.
In 1993, Barbara Thomas became an executive director of Rupert Murdoch's News International
In the same year (2010) she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for "services to the Nuclear and Financial Services Industries".
by Screwed-down Hairdo » Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:35 am
Russell wrote:Couldn't resist checking out her Wikipedia page...Around that time (1987), Barbara Thomas was also involved with Lincoln Savings and Loan Association and American Continental Corporation, two companies whose collapse in 1989 would cause a major financial scandal. Both companies were run by Charles Keating, for whom she lobbied with the SEC in 1988. Later she was named in a resulting class action suit and settled out of court.In 1993, Barbara Thomas became an executive director of Rupert Murdoch's News InternationalIn the same year (2010) she was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for "services to the Nuclear and Financial Services Industries".
I'm sure the emperor has some medals waiting for her...
by matsuki » Wed Feb 06, 2013 11:30 am
"It is a very big challenge because, before the accident, there was a very close relationship between the nuclear regulator and the plant operators," said Judge.
"They all knew each other, had been educated together, and therefore there was no competitive regulatory tension."
"We need to change the culture so that people will be praised and rewarded for pointing out problems. They used to be afraid to say that anything was wrong."
by Mike Oxlong » Wed Feb 06, 2013 2:58 pm
chokonen888 wrote:Overdoing it with the positive attitude is pretty disgusting but she did say:"It is a very big challenge because, before the accident, there was a very close relationship between the nuclear regulator and the plant operators," said Judge.
"They all knew each other, had been educated together, and therefore there was no competitive regulatory tension."
"We need to change the culture so that people will be praised and rewarded for pointing out problems. They used to be afraid to say that anything was wrong."
Maybe just parroting what she was told to say or what she thinks people want to hear but yeah, she set it out as a goal.
by matsuki » Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:31 pm
Mike Oxlong wrote:Not sure she deserves a pat on the back for stating the obvious.
by TennoChinko » Wed Feb 06, 2013 3:51 pm
by Coligny » Wed Feb 06, 2013 4:50 pm
TennoChinko wrote:"The pimp's whore. No need to listen to the pimp's whore..."
by matsuki » Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:00 pm
by Samurai_Jerk » Wed Feb 06, 2013 5:38 pm
by Coligny » Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:07 pm
Samurai_Jerk wrote:I like the fact that a gaijin's opinion only matters when he or she is offering praise.
by Mike Oxlong » Wed Feb 06, 2013 6:55 pm
chokonen888 wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:Not sure she deserves a pat on the back for stating the obvious.
I'm not praising her, just saying she's the first TEPCO person I've heard that acknowledged this shit and that it has to change.
...In a damning internal report available on its website, Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) bluntly confesses that “the problem was that preparations were not made in advance.”
TEPCO president Naomi Hirose led the report...
TEPCO vows to overhaul its management culture in order to avoid future accidents. ”Pride and overconfidence in the traditional safety culture and measure has been discarded and we are resolved to reform of management culture,” the report states. ”We are changing our previous to thinking about safety starting at its basic foundation as we seek out the opinions of experts both inside and outside of Japan.” (Note - quotes are verbatim from the report).
That recognition of a culture that’s overly referential to tradition echoes Japan’s Parliamentary criticism earlier this year that an ingrained unwillingness to question authority led to the nuclear disaster at Fukushima...
by Russell » Wed Feb 06, 2013 9:39 pm
yanpa wrote:Looks like Fookooshimars are partying down in the comments section...
Hat tip to this commenter though:She looks like King Richard III's mistress.
by sublight » Thu Feb 07, 2013 9:43 pm
Mike Oxlong wrote:Not sure she deserves a pat on the back for stating the obvious.
by Mike Oxlong » Thu Feb 07, 2013 10:40 pm
sublight wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:Not sure she deserves a pat on the back for stating the obvious.
In Japan?
by Samurai_Jerk » Fri Feb 08, 2013 2:13 pm
sublight wrote:Mike Oxlong wrote:Not sure she deserves a pat on the back for stating the obvious.
In Japan?
by eddie » Sat Feb 09, 2013 4:08 am
by Russell » Sat Feb 09, 2013 11:29 am
The other issue is planning: where are you going to put this (claps hands). Nobody wants nuclear power plants in their back yard. Or so they say. In actual fact that's wrong. People who have nuclear power plants in their back yard love them!!!
by Coligny » Sat Feb 09, 2013 7:18 pm
by Russell » Sun Feb 10, 2013 12:10 am
At the heart of the British Establishment resides a wraithlike American blonde called Barbara Thomas Judge. Lady Judge, a lawyer, has more jobs than seems possible. Name a board and she is on it; find a charity and she will be associated with it.
She is the chairman of both the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority and of the School of Oriental And African Studies. She serves as deputy chairman of the huge financial services group Friends Provident and of the corporate governance watchdog the Financial Reporting Council. Plus, she has ten directorships and many more 'affiliations' - some in Hong Kong and America.
Inevitably, her achievement in taking on so many roles has brought controversy in its wake: how does she get all these posts, does she deserve them - and can she possibly be doing so many jobs well?
Barbara worked extremely hard - the over-riding theme of her life - and graduated from New York University School Of Law. Strangely, the other women lawyers she knew seemed only to be getting jobs as secretaries.
[...]
At that time, she says, she habitually wore short skirts and had blonde, Farrah Fawcett-style locks. Her appearance didn't seem any kind of handicap because she did land a job at another law firm, where she began doing very well.
'One day,' she says, 'I got called in by the bosses and they said: "Barbara, we are going to fire you."
[...]
I walked out the door and met a man in the corridor whom I knew, and he said: "You know, Barbara, you are too smart to look this dumb."
'So I took my long blonde hair and put it up in the style you see today, and I took my short skirts and made them knee-length.'
So how did this American lawyer, who moved to Britain around 14 years ago, accumulate such powerful contacts? And what drives a woman variously described to me as an 'ice-maiden', a 'ball-breaker' and 'a control freak'? Even those within her circle appear daunted by her.
A former driver remembers being asked to take her shopping on the day of the London Tube bombings - because she reckoned the stores would be quiet. ('I didn't mean that to be callous,' says Lady Judge.)
An acquaintance says that she admires her achievements but that 'Barbara never lets her hair down, literally.' Indeed, her appearance - part ballet-school principal, part Duchess of Windsor - is distinctive and a bit chilly. I meet her at a gathering of the charity Working Families, of which she is - naturally - patron. I ask a British woman and an American woman there how Lady Judge operates. The British woman says that she is 'pushy'. The American corrects her, saying she is 'assertive'.
To prepare for her role at the Atomic Energy Authority, she even studied her son's physics books.
Over the next few years, she hopes to roll over some of her commitments and take on new ones. Her plan is to carry on until her 80s - like her mother, who is still working at 84.
by Coligny » Sun Feb 10, 2013 2:05 am
To prepare for her role at the Atomic Energy Authority, she even studied her son's physics books.
by matsuki » Sun Feb 10, 2013 1:27 pm
Coligny wrote:What type of lesbian is this?!
by Taro Toporific » Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:18 pm
by Screwed-down Hairdo » Fri Jul 05, 2013 9:59 pm
by Big Booger » Fri Jul 05, 2013 10:10 pm
You can trust me I am a verified fucked gaijin.
by Coligny » Fri Jul 05, 2013 11:26 pm
has changed its culture to one of safety, not efficiency,
by Taro Toporific » Sat Jul 06, 2013 7:10 pm
Highly radioactive water found in another well at Fukushima plant
July 06, 2013(Mainichi Japan)
TOKYO (Kyodo) --Tokyo Electric Power Co. said Friday it has detected highly radioactive water in a well newly built to check the spread of underground contamination at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
The well is only several meters from a pit from which highly radioactive water was found seeping into the adjacent sea in April 2011, shortly after the nuclear crisis commenced at the plant.
According to TEPCO, a water sample collected Monday from the well, around 25 meters from the sea, contained about 900,000 becquerels per liter of radioactive substances such as strontium that emit beta rays.
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by Russell » Sat Jul 27, 2013 8:24 am
The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant said Friday that it delayed acknowledging that the plant was leaking contaminated water into the sea because it did not want to worry the public until it was certain there was a problem.
Earlier this week, Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) acknowledged for the first time that its Fukushima Daiichi plant was leaking contaminated underground water into the ocean, a problem many experts had suspected since shortly after the crisis unfolded more than two years ago.
The plant suffered multiple meltdowns after the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami destroyed its power and cooling systems. After a major leak of contaminated water in April of that year, TEPCO said it had contained the problem, and denied there were any further underground leaks into the ocean until Monday.
TEPCO has repeatedly been criticized for delayed disclosures of problems and mishaps at the plant, which still runs on makeshift equipment and has been plagued with problems, including recent blackouts and minor water leaks from storage tanks.
TEPCO President Naomi Hirose said Friday that the company delayed acknowledging contaminated water was leaking into the sea even though obvious signs of leaks were detected in May because officials were waiting until they were certain there was a problem before making such a “major announcement.”
Hirose apologized for the delay and said that he and TEPCO executive vice president Zengo Aizawa would take a 10 percent salary cut for one month over the matter.
“Rather than proactively inform the public of potential risks, we retreated to negative thinking and tried to gather more data to ensure there was a problem because it was going to be a major announcement,” Hirose said. “We’ve been trying to reform, but we repeated the same mistake. Obviously, our effort is not enough. We are really sorry.”
On Thursday, the chief of Japan’s national federation of fisheries, Hiroshi Kishi, said TEPCO had betrayed the public by denying the leaks for more than two years and demanded the company take steps to stop the leaks immediately and step up monitoring of radioactivity in seawater near the plant.
TEPCO last detected spikes in radiation levels in underground and seawater samples taken at the plant in May. The company says the contamination is limited to just near the plant, but the extent of the contamination is unknown.
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