TEPCO opens up Fukushima plant to media

so residents should return wearing protective suits and masks (24x7) like these reporters? looks unsafe to me.

The Fukushima Daiichi press tour

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http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv81820555?ref=nicotop

Reactor one is now completely covered with a tarpaulin-like structure

Do those blue tarps keep radiation from escaping? Wow. You learn something new everyday. Sorry, just being facetious.

there was a sale promo in UNIQLO for these Protective suits + hiked tax.

Thank god for digital cameras - film might be, y'know, a little overexposed at the end of the day. Are reporters who ask difficult questions also allowed, or is this Tepco club outing just for trained puppies?

Does "journalists" include foreign journalists or just members of the Kisha Club, who are known to be cooperative as they do not ask awkward questions and believe what they are told.

"Mostly wearing protective suits" TEPCO workers get the protective suits, workers contract from agencies run by "antisocial" groups don't?

That is incorrect. The visit by journalists was indeed given wide coverage last night by TV media.

Well, the ones who did the coverage may still be debating on how they would present, and what not to say ... or maybe being debriefed.

Conspiracy theories aside though, it seems that the government and TEPCO are really pulling all strings to show the people that the plants are stable, and quite safe to go back.

But I still can't understand why the government hasn't restored the safety radiation levels to pre-disaster levels yet.

Does "journalists" include foreign journalists or just members of the Kisha Club

The journalist/media who were allowed:

[newspaper]

Asahi, Sankei, Tokyo, Nikkei, Mainichi, Yomiuri, Kyodo, Jiji, Fukushima Minpo, Fukushima Minyu, Kahoku Shinpo, Too Nippo, Nigata Nippo

[TV/Radio]

NHK, Nihon TV(Nittere), TBS, Fuji TV, TV Asahi, TV Tokyo,Fukushima TV, Fukushima Chuo TV, Fukushima Hoso, Teleview Fukushima, Radio Fukushima

[Foreign journalist]

The Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (5 members)

[Internet media]

Nikoniko doga, IWJ

http://www.ourplanet-tv.org/?q=node/1308

gaijintechie - digital cameras are just as sensitive to radiation as film... one example is the recent usage of an endoscope inside the reactor - the picture instantly becomes noisy as it enters the vessel. Other examples are the night-shot videos (some days after the hydrogen explosions), where colourful noise (very atypical for a digital camera shooting at night) is sometimes visible...

There's probably a lunch room for the reporters with special cash sandwiches.

I saw them walking around with plastic gloves. Lord this country makes my shake my head.

Great post Blair - and just exactly as I thought. Pretty much Japan only... Doubt we'll get the truth.

Everyone can watch The Fukushima Daiichi press tour on Fukushima Dairy. I just started watching and everyone is getting suited up the their protective gear right now . going back to watch it.

http://fukushima-diary.com/

Has anyone seen THIS?

http://www.tepco.co.jp/en/nu/fukushima-np/images/handouts_120221_02-e.pdf

Because of high radiation, they are going to "cover up" the Port's ocean bottom with concrete? WTF??

SaltAire it is a mess it looks like they are burying the ocean bottom like it's chernobyl or something.

PART 2 of the Fukushima Daiichi press tour is on iwakamiyasumi page of ustream.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/20600794