TEPCO to make all data on radiation at Fukushima plant public

[yuiyoshida]

Source: JapanToday

TOKYO —

Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO), which operates the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, says it will make public all information on radiation levels or amounts of leaked contaminated water in and around the No. 1 reactor.

TEPCO officials told a news conference in Tokyo on Monday that all the related data and measurements currently being collated will be made public for the first time since the earthquake and tsunami hit in March 2011, Fuji TV reported.

The move comes after the utility was heavily criticized last month for not disclosing that radioactive rainwater was leaking into the ocean through a gutter from the rooftop of the reactor building. Members of the surrounding area’s fishing and agricultural industries expressed outrage toward TEPCO.

Although TEPCO engineers have been measuring radiation levels and quantities of radioactive water that have been leaking from the No. 2 reactor into the ocean since April of 2014, any information regarding the data and or the actual situation at the reactors has been kept largely secret from the media and the public.



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[bananas]

1. Compulsive liar says "This time I really mean it!"

[Mnemosyne]

4. +100000000000000000000000000000000000000000 nt

[Demeter]

2. The situation must be completely desperate if they are coming clean

which I doubt, but it could happen...especially if they want something out of the public purse...

[Octafish]

3. Just Reactor 1.

TEPCO its top officers and board of directors -- and the politicians around the world who do their bidding -- should be in prison, if not wearing workers' garb, mopping up their atomic mess.

[bananas]

6. Didn't notice that, nice catch. nt

[FBaggins]

8. Nope. Not reactor/unit #1. That was a bad transltion.

"Fukushima No. 1" (i.e. "Fukushima Daiichi&quot is the name of the entire plant... to distinguish it from Fukushima Daini (i.e., "No 2&quot .

They've also announced that they'll allow outside experts to run checks as well.

http://ajw.asahi.com/article/0311disaster/fukushima/AJ201503310040

[chervilant]

5. Honestly?!?

I am so not holding my breath!

[DeSwiss]

7. MsMilkytheclown's latest from TEPCO......

- I'd say this guy's career has a half-life of 6 months. Tops.

K&R

[FBaggins]

9. Why? The statements seem very straightforward

And they're entirely consistent with what they've been saying all along.