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Tepco executives get a taste of citizens’ wrath via The Japan Times

By Jeff Kingston […] In mid-2012, Tepco released the results of its own investigation into the nuclear accident and, with unseemly chutzpah, absolved itself of all responsibility. It was so embarrassing in its exculpatory excesses, and thoroughly contradicted by all … Continue reading

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Group files fresh complaint over Fukushima nuclear disaster via The Japan Times

A group of people on Tuesday filed a second criminal complaint against a former nuclear safety official and eight others, arguing they failed to take necessary preventive measures in the Fukushima nuclear crisis. A complaint filed in June 2012 named … Continue reading

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Fukushima Report Questions US Nuclear Safety Culture via Science 2.0

Nevertheless, an extensive new report written by the Committee on Lessons Learned from the Fukushima Nuclear Accident for Improving Safety and Security of U.S. Nuclear Plants devoted an entire chapter to the issue. […] Both industry and government share blame … Continue reading

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Report: 76 trillion becquerels of Plutonium-239 released from Fukushima — 23,000 times higher than previously announced via ENE News

NISA Mentions “Neptunium-239″ in August 29 Press Conference, EX-SKF, August 28, 2011 […] The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA)’s daily press conference is ongoing (August 29). The NISA spokesman Moriyama mentions neptunium-239′s conversion ratio to plutonium-239 as 1 to … Continue reading

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Nuke plants on faults may get OK to stay online via The Japan Times

The government may allow nuclear plants to keep operating even if faults are found beneath them, provided that ground displacements are deemed unlikely to affect their buildings. The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency plans new safety rules that OK operations … Continue reading

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NISA told Tepco to delay reporting looming explosion via The Japan Times

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ordered Tepco in March 2011 to delay announcing that the pressure level in one of the Fukushima No. 1 plant’s wrecked reactors was spiking to critical levels, teleconference footage released by the utility shows. … Continue reading

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Japan’s Unsatisfying Nuclear Report via Bloomberg

… Yet for all its detail and willingness to label the Fukushima disaster as “profoundly manmade,” the report does not identify which men (and this being Japan, there probably weren’t many women) failed. Instead, it sweepingly indicts “the ingrained conventions … Continue reading

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Japan Ignored US Radiation Monitoring Data via Reader Supported News

ven as thousands of residents pondered the implications of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima Prefecture last year, Japanese government officials took little notice of up-to-the-minute high radiation measurements provided by the U.S. Energy Department. The Energy Department used its Aerial … Continue reading

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NISA to let reactor run beyond 40 years via The Japan Times

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency plans to conclude that the Mihama nuclear power plant’s No. 2 reactor in Fukui Prefecture is safe enough to operate beyond 40 years, the period of operation that requires safety assessments, sources said Wednesday. … Continue reading

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NISA, Tepco knew in ’06 of Fukushima tsunami threat via The Japan Times

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency and Tokyo Electric Power Co. were aware at least by 2006 that the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant was at risk of having its power knocked out by massive tsunami, NISA officials said Tuesday. … Continue reading

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