Apr. 04, 2011: In the midst of one of the most serious nuclear crises in history and with 30,000 dead or missing and close to half a million people rendered homeless in the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) has submitted plans to build more reactors in Fukushima.On March 31, in the third week of the crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, owner TEPCO submitted a plan to add a seventh and eighth reactor at the stricken site to Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry. TEPCO is required to submit yearly reports, which include future development plans.
The company claims that due to the confusion brought about by earthquake and tsunami, they did not have an opportunity to revise the plan and, faced with a strict deadline, simply chose to submit it. The plan to build two new reactors at the site had been included in annual reports since 1995, and TEPCO now claims that it always intended to revise the report after this year's submission. The submission as is, however, seems emblematic of TEPCO's inability to communicate with the people of Fukushima or adequately express contrition. The Fukushima bureaucrat in charge of new projects, Nozaki Yoichi, is quoted as saying, "If you consider the feelings of the people of Fukushima, this is simply unforgivable."
"Unforgivable" - TEPCO's Plan to Add Reactors in Fukushima - The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
No comments:
Post a Comment