Why TEPCO needs to heavily censor their documents

redacted tepco documents sept 7
TEPCO, the operator of the totally fuckqued-up Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant caused quite a furor last September 7th (Mainichi News) when they delivered mostly blackened out—redacted documents that were heavily censored (above) when the Japanese Diet demanded documents for the official investigation of the meltdown.

Yesterday, TEPCO showed why they need to heavily censor their documents before releasing them for official investigation. Yikes! Even with redactions the TEPCO drawings of radioactive-ejaculating-cock-&-balls are just a bit perverted*, aren’t they? …

Yesterday the EX-SKF blog posted the original of the above TEPCO document showing how than more than 10,000 40,000 ppm of radioactive “H” (Hydrogen) detected excaping Reactor 1 (EX-SKF | 2011/Sep/23.

*Please let me give you a bit of explanation of the Japanese inside jokes of the above TEPCO drawing, which has the shape of a cock ‘n‘
balls.

  • In Japanese “H” —Ecchi/eichi in katakana means perverted and is pronounced “ay-eechee.” Of course, “H” is also the standard scientific abbreviation for hydrogen.
  • The TEPCO drawing shows cuts in the reactor piping, but in Japanese-engrish “pipe cut” means a ‘vasectomy.’
  • Containment “vesicles” rather ‘vessels’ is a misspelling attributed to my own snarkiness.

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3 thoughts on “Why TEPCO needs to heavily censor their documents”

  1. The redacted TEPCO documents
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    Is recriticality due to water poured on the molten cores one of the things being hidden

    Quote:redacted-tepco-crap
    Secrecy in black ink:
    Redactions speak volumes about those doing the censoring
    Mainichi.jp | 2011sep20
    The largely blacked-out emergency operation manual submitted by TEPCO to a special Diet committee is seen in this Sept. 7 photo (right)

    There is no more expressive a text than one that has been blacked out. I am, of course, speaking of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant accident manuals and other documents submitted to a Diet science committee earlier this month with the vast majority of the content hidden by black blocks and lines. The black ink secrecy speaks volumes about the nature of the organization that submitted them — plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO).
    The redaction of the Fukushima plant manuals brings to mind another instance of the application of so much black ink to written texts: Japanese school textbooks at the end of World War II.
    On Aug. 28, 1945, just two days before General Douglas MacArthur landed, the then Education Ministry directed schools use caution in how they used their textbooks, and take “suitable measures,” including omissions, that reflected the “changed situation.” Then, on Sept. 20, the ministry issued another order commanding schools to eliminate “unsuitable” material outright. These moves came more than a month before the General Headquarters (GHQ) — the head of the Allied occupation — issued its own policy on education in Japan. The ministry’s prompt action was good preparation for what was to come, but teachers were getting anxious, and the students simply bewildered by the suddenly altered reality….
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