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(27,509 posts) Thu Jul 16, 2015, 08:58 AM Jul 2015

Nuclear watchdog says safety culture not good enough after documents falsified

Source: Reuters

Japan’s atomic regulator on Wednesday said falsified documents at Chugoku Electric Power Co Inc related to radioactive waste showed the country’s nuclear industry still lags on safety more than four years after the Fukushima plant meltdown.

Chugoku Electric on June 30 said it had not conducted the mandatory inspection of equipment for handling low-level nuclear waste, yet had recorded that the checks were carried out.

“From a safety culture point of view, if that kind of thing happens, it’s not good enough,” Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) head Shunichi Tanaka said at a regular press conference on Wednesday, when asked about the incident by Reuters.

“It is not a violation under law, so I don’t think we would take legal action,” Tanaka said.

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We went through this with the Vermont "Public" Service Board erronis Jul 2015 #1

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1. We went through this with the Vermont "Public" Service Board

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Thu Jul 16, 2015, 12:44 PM

Jul 2015

I wrote "Public" in quotes since the PSB doesn't seem to listen to the public citizens of Vermont.

Recently the PSB helped push through a NG pipeline from Canada to the NYC area using eminent domain even though the energy benefit to Vermonters was minimal. This was contested and several land-owners had property taken for the pipeline. The PSB seemed to value the inputs of the corporations vs. the people of Vermont - surprise!

Once the original estimate of the costs to build the pipeline soared (+100%) and the profits from NG plummeted (thanks to other US fossil-fuel supplies) the pressure to complete the pipeline became strangely low. (http://www.wcax.com/story/29376781/vt-psb-holds-gas-pipeline-hearings)

Another example is the very long process that was necessary to get the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant decommissioned. It seems that our elected officials may have other interests than their chartered ones to represent the people of the state. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vermont_Yankee_Nuclear_Power_Plant)

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