I mean that TEPCO would get away with COVERING UP a lot more. Hiding the facts. They do that anyway, in spades.
The beauty of a satellite photo is that you literally cannot cover things up. Although I expect that TEPCO officials spent hours trying to brainstorm ways to spread blue tarps over the reactors and the landscape to block those satellite photos. The cops always spread blue tarps over crime scenes, to keep the lallygagging public away. Plus, a couple of days ago, the U.S. ran an unmanned aircraft with radiation monitors to map out contamination on the ground. An Israeli company installed specially made IR cameras the record both heat and radioactivity (I assume with a separate detector, but they can be superimposed.) Where is the data from those instruments? They don't even discuss them in Japan. I read about them in the U.S. press. I have seen nothing about them in the Japanese press. If this happened here, in the 21st century, there were would be a lot more data revealed, on a more timely basis. Even the IAEA chief and the NRC people are saying this, publicly: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/03/21/japan.nuclear.iaea/index.html - Jed
