Work on frozen soil walls at Fukushima plant hits glitch
Source: Asahi Shimbun
Plans to start construction in June of frozen underground soil walls at the crippled Fukushima No.1 nuclear power plant are now askew after concerns were raised by the nation's nuclear watchdog body.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority said plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. has yet to submit documents demonstrating the safety and efficacy of the project, which is unprecedented in scale.
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The industry ministry, which gave the green light to the project, was baffled by the NRA’s reaction.
“We believed that we had already gained the NRA’s understanding,” a ministry official said.
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Read more: http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201405170031
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No plan for a large earthquake.
No plan for a large tsunami.
No plan for a tsunami knocking out backup generators.
No plan for another power source if the backup power got knocked out.
No plan for stopping the re-contamination of Fukushima yet continues clean-up efforts and asking people to return.
So why would they have a plan to demonstrate the safety and efficacy of a project no one's ever done, no one but TEPCO who's ever even thought it would work on such a huge scale.
At this point, the only value I can see for TEPCO is as a porous and tattered shield against the scorn increasingly and very OPENLY being shown by the Japanese people for their own government. Something that until Fukushima, was almost unheard of.
The Abe regime needs TEPCO to continue to have someone between them and this disaster and the increasingly enraged Japanese people on the other side, so they can have someone handy to blame for how screwed-up things are -- and continue to be. That way with the next screw-up, all they need say is: ''Oh-oh TEPCO!''
If this were the US, we'd already know everything about everybody involved that day and pilloried them along with enough nuclear techs and managers to staunch the flow of radioactive blood flowing from the nuclear industry onto the front pages of the nation's newspaper's.
- Like we're doing now at Hansford, WIPP and Diablo Canyon.
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Thousands of gallons of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes are still flowing into the Pacific Ocean. The water that has been collected is being stored in tanks that are already sprouting leaks and is so radioactive that there have been criticality incidents.
Nothing to worry about though.
