{"id":6045,"date":"2011-05-27T14:19:50","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T05:19:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haakondahl.com\/blog\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2011-05-27T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T05:19:50","slug":"another-reactor-fire-in-northeastern-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/another-reactor-fire-in-northeastern-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Reactor Fire in Northeastern Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another fire<\/a> at a Japanese nuclear plant. \u00a0Don’t worry, though:<\/p>\n

TEPCO spokesman Naoyuki Matsumoto says there’s no fear of a radiation leak due to the fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Thank Heavens TEPCO is here to announce that everything is under control, and that there is nothing to worry about. \u00a0Especially radiation. \u00a0Whew.<\/p>\n

And those of us who criticize, rather than fellate, traditional Japanese management practices are still wa-a-ay off base. \u00a0Probably just racists. \u00a0Not a management-improving thought in our empty heads.<\/p>\n

Note that I am not criticizing the fact that there was a fire. \u00a0Accidents happen, and while not at all desirable, are still “in bounds” for management. \u00a0I am criticizing the fact the TEPCO has zero credibility left, after decades of consistently lying and covering up\u00a0problems large and small, public and private\u00a0while avoiding actually fixing things.<\/p>\n

Soon, the wind will be from the northeast where I live, due to inflow to Supertyphoon Songda.<\/p>\n

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Another fire<\/a> at a Japanese nuclear plant. \u00a0Don’t worry, though:<\/p>\n

TEPCO spokesman Naoyuki Matsumoto says there’s no fear of a radiation leak due to the fire.<\/p>\n

Thank Heavens TEPCO is here to announce that everything is under control, and that there is nothing to worry about. \u00a0Especially radiation. \u00a0Whew.<\/p>\n

And those of us who criticize, rather than fellate, traditional Japanese management practices are still wa-a-ay off base. \u00a0Probably just racists. \u00a0Not a management-improving thought in our empty heads.<\/p>\n

Note that I am not criticizing the fact that there was a fire. \u00a0Accidents happen, and while not at all desirable, are still “in bounds” for management. \u00a0I am criticizing the fact the TEPCO has zero credibility left, after decades of consistently lying and covering up\u00a0problems … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[246,257],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fukushima","category-quality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6045\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}