Wow, TEPCO relied on media when Japan's govt. tried to shut it down

[robdogbucky]

Japan admits getting nuke updates via media

By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy
Posted 7 hours 2 minutes ago

The Japanese government has revealed it had to learn key developments about the crisis at the Fukushima nuclear plant through media reports.

The news highlights tensions between the plant's operator, Tokyo Electric Power Co, and the Japanese government.
Speaking at a news conference today, Japan's chief cabinet secretary said he was unaware that the cooling system at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant had been shut down manually.

Yukio Edano says he learnt about the development in today's media reports. He says he will seek an explanation from TEPCO about how and why the manual shutdown went ahead.

Meanwhile, the United States is maintaining its advice for its citizens to keep at least 80 kilometres away from the Fukushima nuclear plant...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2011/05/17/3219477.htm


The hits just keep coming.

Who to believe?

Learning how to spin it, no doubt with guidance from abroad.

You just can't make this stuff up:



Water manually turned off: data
Worker error may have led to meltdown

By MINORU MATSUTANI and MASAMI ITO
Staff writers

The emergency cooling system for reactor 1 at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant may have been shut down manually before the tsunami hit on March 11, according to a Tokyo Electric Power Co. spokesman and documents recently released by the utility.

A part of the cooling system known as the isolation condenser was down for about three hours, which could have contributed to the reactor core's meltdown.

The finding upends the government's previous conclusion that the condenser was functioning normally on March 11.
"I learned (of the shutdown) through media reports today," Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano told a news conference Tuesday. "We have asked the Nuclear and Industry Safety Agency and other bodies to give detailed analyses and reports (on that matter)..."

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20110517x1.htm



Generator trucks proved useless at Fukushima plant

The operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant says dozens of power-generating trucks brought to the plant just after the March 11th disaster mostly proved to be useless.

About 70 generator trucks from the Self-Defense Forces and other entities headed to the plant after the quake knocked out external power and the tsunami disabled the facility's backup generators.

But plant operator TEPCO says debris strewn across the compound and flooded switchboards hampered the trucks' set up.

The utility says a switchboard for the No.2 reactor was finally wired to one of the generator trucks about 24 hours after the disaster. But moments later, a hydrogen explosion at the neighboring No.1 reactor fried the wiring and cut off the power supply from the truck. Another hydrogen explosion 2 days later at the No.3 reactor damaged generator vehicles with chunks of flying concrete...

http://www3.nhk.or.jp/daily/english/17_11.html

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 09:59 +0900 (JST)


I suppose this is all just more Extreme Enviroweenie Biased Claptrap, eh?

Or spin?

Or cherry-picking?

I think the word despicable on the parts of TEPCO and the Japanese govt. is more accurate.

rdb

[robdogbucky]

1. Yesterday's news, admitted tentatively by TEPCO today

I see a definite pattern emerging here for the Japanese Keystone Cops, widely known as TEPCO:


Japan: meltdown feared at two more Fukushima reactors

Two further reactors at Japan's damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant may have suffered meltdown, according to its operators.
By Danielle Demetriou in Tokyo 7:00AM BST 17 May 2011


"The fuel in reactors No 2 and 3 is suspected to have melted amid reports that the operators Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) failed to cool the plant in the aftermath of the March 11 earthquake and tsunami.


The news came only days after it was confirmed for the first time that a meltdown had taken place in the No 1 reactor only 16 hours after the earthquake and tsunami hit the plant.


"The findings at the No. 1 reactor indicate the likelihood that the water level readings in the other reactors aren't accurate," said Junichi Matsumoto, a general manager at Tepco. "It could be that a meltdown similar to that in the No 1 reactor has occurred."


Tepco has faced wide criticism for its apparent failure to fully comprehend or reveal the extent of the damage inflicted in the plant after crucial cooling systems were knocked out by the March 11 disaster..."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8517861/Japan-meltdown-feared-at-two-more-Fukushima-reactors.html



Just more EEBC