This particular company has a record of falsifying safety inspection reports. "Saving face" trumps reality until reality bites you in the butt.
It it not just a matter of "a few people". Western agencies are saying that the company is still not forthcoming with the facts based on the data they have.
Right now, the possibility of burying the reactors as they did in Chernobyl is being discussed. If the happens, a significant land area of Japan will be unihabitable for decades and the death toll will be as higher.
‘This particular company has a record of falsifying safety inspection reports. “Saving face” trumps reality until reality bites you in the butt.’
Sounds a lot like how President Oblivious is being handled by the media and most of the pols in DC. So, while its easy to pee in someone else’s cheerios our day of reckoning is still to be. Perhaps the path of destruction Oblivious leaves in his wake will be worse than whats going on in Japan. In short we’re no better than they are.
Yes. The company in Japan govt cut corners.
The biggest problem is the delay in asking for help to get gas turbine generators to get the cooling pumps going.
Where is this joke International Atomic Energy Agency? The useless Dept of Energy? Everyoen should have had a plan or realized that getting those cooling pumps back on had to occur as fast as possible - no mater what.
Why were they using MOX fuel and this BS about leaving old rods in cooling pools? Alsothank you enviros for Yucca Flats, NV and tens of billions wasted on that so our spent rods sit around at the local power plant. .
It happens in the US too. The falsifying of records, some level of crony-type corruption, even mob involvement, in the nuke biz. Still, the standards are high. The plants have to operate well — that can’t be bribed away.
The price mark-up on equipment certified for nuclear system use is very high. Yet one piece of equipment, nuke certified, looks just like one not nuke certified. Creates a motive for fraud when the supplier thinks he can get away with it.
You can’t correct or improve this with regulation, btw. Having many regulators can actually differentially favor the corrupt. It takes a culture of high standards and strong engineering and ethics.