Japanese Utility Takes Blame for Nuclear Crisis
Source: Associate Press
The utility that operates Japan's crippled nuclear plant says it deserves most of the blame for the crisis, in the company's strongest remarks about its own shortcomings.
Tokyo Electric Power Co. acknowledged in a report Friday that it was not prepared to deal with the earthquake and tsunami that ravaged northeast Japan in March 2011, causing meltdowns at its Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant. TEPCO had earlier maintained that the tsunami was mostly to blame for the crisis.
The report said that TEPCO's equipment and safety measures were insufficient and that the meltdowns should have been avoided. It also said TEPCO did not try to inform the public of risks and troubles at the plant.
The report is part of an internal investigation into the crisis that TEPCO launched last year.
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Here's a little truth...shoddy workmanship, pipes that supplied cooling water were welded under great stress, they never lined up as designed/engineered but were held in place with heavy equipment and then welded. These were the first to burst/snap when the earthquake hit. The tsunami wiped out the back-up generators that were tasked to keep the pumps going, but it mattered little since the network of cooling water piping was already destroyed.
Safety inspections were falsified over and over. The entire facility is a catastrophic disaster beyond comprehension .
There is no end or solution in sight. The technology to fix this is not even invented yet. They are "winging" it, basically treading water and praying there is not yet another severe earthquake that brings the rest of the damaged structures down in a pile of untouchable rubble.
Meanwhile, one third of the little children tested in the close vicinity already have growths on their thyroids.
