Fukushima gets Worse & TEPCO ADMITS FLAWS! update 10/12/12
Channel: MsMilkytheclown
Date: 2016-08-17

TEPCO admits to insufficient tsunami measures
http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/2...
Tokyo Electric Power Company has admitted for the first time that its measures to protect the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant from tsunamis were insufficient.

The company acknowledged its failure at the first meeting of an independent panel on Friday.

The 5-member panel, headed by former chairman of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Dale Klein, aims to help the utility reform its management. The firm has been the focus of criticism since the nuclear disaster in March last year.

The firm presented to the panel a reform plan drafted by an in-house team. It said the utility was able to take necessary steps to prepare for tsunamis before the accident, and should have had more effective organization and held practical disaster prevention drills.

The team said TEPCO should address issues pointed out by the government and Diet investigative panels, and carry out reforms without exceptions.

The plan is an about-face from the utility's final report on its probe into the accident, released in June.

The report said the firm was not fully prepared for a nuclear disaster, but defended its decisions and responses after the Fukushima Daiichi accident. The government and Diet investigative panels severely criticized the report.

Team member Takafumi Anegawa says the company's stance on the accident has changed. He adds that TEPCO will not win public understanding by saying the company did all it could but failed to prevent the accident.

Oct. 12, 2012 - Updated 10:45 UTC (19:45 JST)
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http://enenews.com/strange-water-fuku...
The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant succeeded Friday in taking a sample of water from the No. 1 reactor's primary containment vessel, the first such attempt since the accident at the plant occurred last year.

Considering the water's radiation level and other data, Tokyo Electric Power Co. said the fuel, which is believed to have melted through the pressure vessel and accumulated in the outer primary container, does not appear to be releasing large amounts of radioactive substances because it is kept cool.

The water contained 19,000 becquerels of cesium 134 per cubic centimeter and 35,000 becquerels of cesium 137, lower than the density levels of the water accumulating at the building housing the reactor.

Arnie Gundersen on CNN
Nuclear Engineer Arnie Gundersen on Unit 1 in July 2012: "Tepco ran a probe into the basement of Unit 1. This is not inside the containment, this is outside the containment. On the top of the water surface they found lethal radiation, 1000 rem an hour. But then they put the probe down into the water and what's even worse is the bottom, the sediment on the bottom, was thousand of times hotter than that. And what that indicates is that fuel, nuclear fuel, has left the containment, as particles, and settled out on the bottom outside the containment."

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LINKS TO VIDEOS AT ENDING:

NUCLEAR-NEWS.NET http://nuclear-news.net/
What are efforts to contain Fukushima? None. http://www.veteranstoday.com/2012/10/11/what-are-efforts-to-contain-fukushima-2/
Unheard Voices (English Sub) http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtn4bt_unheard-voices-english-sub_news