Hidden Video taken just after the sodium leak accident

Video taken just after the sodium leak accident at Monju, hidden by the PNC - the so-called 2 o'clock video(NPJ Video News No. 3)

English subtitle at http://www.dotsub.com/films/videotape/index.php?autostart=true&language_s...

Just after the accident, the PNC sent employees to the site to film the leak.However, due to the graphic nature of the footage, the PNC hid it.The PNC explained that they hid it because "it has no value".With your own eyes, we want you to judge why the PNC hid the video.

English article at http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/2008/01/25/japan-videotape-from-1995-monju-...

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• hidden
• video
• accident
• Monju
• fast-breeder
• reactor
• leak
• 1995
• nuclear
• power
• plutonium
• sodium

[newspj]

Later,short videos were released, these were edited to hide the full extent of the damage. Further complicating the story, the deputy general manager of the general affairs department at the PNC, Shigeo Nishimura, 49, jumped to his death the day after a news conference where he and other officials revealed the extent of the cover-up.

[newspj]

On December 8th, 1995, 700 kg of molten sodium leaked from the secondary cooling circuit of the Monju reactor, resulting in a fire that made headlines across the country.

Following the fire, officials at the government-owned Power Reactor and Nuclear Fuel Development Corporation (PNC), operators of Monju, first played down the extent of damage at the reactor and denied the existence of a videotape showing the sodium spill.

[PaleHearse]

Seems to be dust from what ever they were using as a retardant. Probably an automatic system. I'd be interested to see actual reports on this rather then tinfoil hat conspiracy theories.

[wsmith68]

Anti-nuclear hysteria.

[xp1234567890]

Sodium is highly corrosive and reacts violently with both water and air.

The Sodium spill itself came very close to breaching Monju, a catastrophe which would have spilled plutonium into the environment.

[sparti0224]

The plant was a key in the development program of fast breeder reactors in Japan.

The TEPCO, electric power company, feared this minor accident would affect whole of their nuclear fuel cycle. So fools.

[sparti0224]

This accident was not so serious one, but the TEPCO covered up the scandal. Foolish executives faced the consequences.

[Hellbacon]

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[happyfunnyfoo]

This is part of the secondary loop, no radiation was involved.

[desouki]

umm, you guys complaining about camera quality..

1) this was taken in '95. what kind of quality were you expecting? blu ray?

2) it's not supposed to be thrilling. if you knew anything about the Japanese gov't (btw, I'm not Japanese), you'd know that they are absolutely corrupt and tell way too many lies. Anyways, point is, this video is there to prove that there was a sodium spill, contrary to what the Japanese government said.