G.E. was just like Edison.G.E. was arrogant, did not share its know-how with the Japanese, and needed to show them the containment vessel.

2021/3/19
The following is from the serial column of Masayuki Takayama, who brings the weekly Shincho released yesterday to a successful conclusion.
This article also proves that he is the one and only journalist in the postwar world.
Asahi's Hidden Secrets
Edison started his electricity business with direct current.
His subordinate, Nikola Tesla, was fired because he insisted that A.C. was better.
Tesla moved to a rival company, Westinghouse (W.H.), to commercialize A.C.
He was a genius born in Serbia, and the electric car now runs only 150 kilometers is named after him.
Edison believed in the simplicity of direct current and tortured Tesla by waging a negative campaign against alternating current, saying it was dangerous and murderous.
He held events all over the place where dogs and horses were electrocuted with A.C. electricity.
They even suggested using the A.C. electric chair for executions.
Americans are grotesque, so they thought it would be fun.
The first person to sit in the chair was a 30-year-old German who had beaten his wife to death with a hatchet.
The execution didn't go as well as the horse, however, and the second, more extended power surge left the condemned man charred to death.
Still, it could not overcome A.C. electricity's virtues, and Edison met with a crushing defeat.
Edison's G.E. filed many lawsuits against Tesla's W.H. in the following years, but Tesla's wisdom was exceptional.
The battle between the two companies continued after the war, and it fought the final battle over light water reactors for power generation.
G.E. brought out the simple boiling water reactor, just as it had done for electricity, while W.H. introduced the complex but safe pressurized water reactor.
It soon won the game.
The U.S. Navy chose W.H.'s pressurized water reactor to install on its submarines because it judged that W.H.'s reactor was worthy of trusting the lives of the soldiers working around it.
Toshio Doko also thought nuclear power was the only option for Japan, which had no energy resources.
After inspecting the plants, he concluded that W.H. made them.
Doko also had Ishikawajima-Harima, Toshiba, and Hitachi develop their reactor technology.
As Doko had predicted, the nine power companies introduced light water reactors, but W.H. reactors, TEPCO, introduced G.E. reactors.
It is believed that there was pressure from the U.S.
Doko immediately assigned its subsidiaries, Ishikawajima-Harima Heavy Industries Co. and Toshiba, to assist G.E.
It was in preparation for anything that might happen.
G.E. was just like Edison.
G.E. was arrogant, did not share its know-how with the Japanese, and needed to show them the containment vessel.
It was all completed, and it was a turnkey system that just turned on the switch.
They treated Japan like an undeveloped country.
That's all well and good if it's good, but when we turned the key, we found it full of malfunctions.
There were radiation leaks and corrosion cracks, and the operating efficiency was only 16%.
That's when Ishikawajima-Harima and Toshiba took action.
They also changed the core material, and the G.E. reactors were reborn as safe reactors with a new look.
G.E.'s reactors were not very safe.
They did not even have a vent to vent the high-pressure gas from the containment vessel in case of an accident.
If an accident had occurred, it would have been Chornobyl immediately.
The Japanese side installed a new vent.
They did not disclose this partly out of consideration for G.E. but also because the idiot Asahi Shimbun would make a fuss about the fact that the reactor was runaway until yesterday.
G.E.'s "build it in a low-lying area" design was also at fault in the 3/11 disaster.
The only thing that kept Fukushima from turning into Chornobyl was the self-reliant maintenance on the Japanese side.
And now, ten years later.
Asahi is back with another denunciation of nuclear power.
They criticized the venting as flawed and ignorant and claimed that the power supply was "down by the earthquake, so nuclear power is dangerous in an earthquake-prone country.
He repeatedly said that 6,000 nuclear bombs could be made from the accumulated spent fuel, leading people to have false hopes.
If another accident occurs, it will be the end of Japan," he said, suggesting that the nation should "resolve to get rid of nuclear power.
It sounds like they are worried about Japan and want to live a clean life with renewable energy, but Asahi's reasons for phasing out nuclear power are the same as those given by Seiji Yoshida and are all lies.
The tsunami, not the earthquake, caused the loss of power.
Spent fuel from light water reactors cannot be used to make nuclear bombs.
The reactor and its defects were all made by G.E., but Asahi kept hiding it.
They lined up such lies and recommended wind power made in China and solar panels made in Korea for ten years.
Asahi has a sizeable current account deficit.
So they got some publicity money.