Tepco Misleading Public Over Nuclear Crisis

Source: Bloomberg

Tokyo Electric Power Co. has made misleading statements about when it will stabilize its nuclear reactors crippled by the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, said Tetsuo Ito, head of the Atomic Energy Research Institute at Kinki University in western Japan.

The company, known as Tepco, yesterday reiterated the schedule on its so-called road map announced a month ago to achieve cold shutdown of the three radiation-leaking reactors as early as October. Setting a timetable without knowing the condition of the reactor cores doesn’t make sense, Ito said in a phone interview from Osaka.

“Only after understanding what’s going on inside the buildings and reactors, will it be clear what parts of the timetable are achievable,” Ito said. “Devising a road map without that will give the public a false sense of security.”

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“It’s highly likely No. 2 and No. 3 reactors are worse than thought,” Ito said. “Tepco devised the first (road map) before fully grasping the situation inside the reactor buildings; a scientist wouldn’t do such a thing.”

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K&R

the sky is blue and grass is green.

That would never happen in the United States... unless it involved GE.

> That would never happen in the United States... unless it involved GE.

... or Exxon ... or Chevron ... or GM ... or Boeing ... or Dow ...
or Goldman Sachs ... or Citicorp ... or Halliburton ... or any of the
agricultural lobby ... or any of the coal lobby ... or anyone else who
has enough money to bribe the government ...

And profit the only moral imperative,
Why would we expect anything else.

K&R.