Monday, June 13, 2011

What's happening with the TEPCO hearing?

Question:


I heard that the official investigation into the nuclear accident and whether TEPCO handled the matter correctly started recently. Does anyone have any updates on this? (Someone in Japan who is reading newspapers or watching news broadcasts on TV.)

Answer:


Yep, I just dug out an old copy. Wed June 8. Says that "Independent panel seeks truth, to avoid blame game". It's headed by Yotaro Hatamura from Tokyo Univ. Kan was there to say it was independent. Basically the whole article seems to try to find how many ways to emphasis that they aren't going to point fingers or place blame. Very little else to be said.

EDIT: Given that it was stated in the papers that 'human error' played a role in the problem, I'm not sure how well it was handled. They manually shut off a valve for cooling water. Supposedly this was in the manual but now that admit that was a mistake. Who knows what else they will find.

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