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Fukushima Continues Leaking, 3 Former TEPCO Execs Charged With Negligence
Three former executives from the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) have been formally charged with negligence over the 2011 disaster at the company’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant.
In accordance with a ruling from a citizen’s panel last year — and despite two previous refusals by Tokyo prosecutors to press charges — the three will be the first to go to court over the catastrophic meltdown, which followed a massive tsunami.
Those charged include former TEPCO chairman, Tsunehisa Katsumata, and former executive vice presidents, Sakae Muto and Ichiro Takekuro, according to Reuters. As their indictments did not stipulate arrest, none of the trio have been taken into custody.
Despite previous claims there was insufficient evidence necessary to prosecute, a unique component of the country’s legal system allowed citizens to make the final call. As Reuters explained:
“Japanese citizens’ panels, made up of residents selected by lottery, are a rarely-used but high-profile feature of Japan’s legal system introduced after World War Two to curb bureaucratic overreach. They were given the power to force prosecutions if they called for them a second time.”
That panel found the three executives did not exercise sufficient preventive means, despite being warned of the potential effects a tsunami could have on the Fukushima plant.
Japan’s national media outlet, NHK, said the three former executives planned to enter not-guilty pleas, as they could not have anticipated the size of the March 2011 tsunami, said the BBC.
None of the three charged were available for comment, reported Reuters.
Nearly five years ago, one of the strongest earthquakes ever recorded struck off the coast of Japan, spurring an enormous tsunami, which forced roughly 160,000 residents to flee. Three reactors at the Fukushima plant suffered meltdowns as the wall of water knocked power offline, triggering chain reactions.
Close to 16,000 people died and around 2,500 are still listed as missing from events of that day — though none have been directly attributed to the nuclear catastrophe. As radioactive contamination has created an uninhabitable zone surrounding the plant, and with leaks and general mismanagement of the Fukushima cleanup still continuously making headlines, the meltdown is considered nearly on par with Chernobyl in 1986.
15 Comments on "Fukushima Continues Leaking, 3 Former TEPCO Execs Charged With Negligence"
Apneaman on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 12:46 am
Well this ones filed under environment, so thats close enough for me.
“The Old Normal Is Gone”: February Shatters Global Temperature Records
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/03/01/february_2016_s_shocking_global_warming_temperature_record.html
Apneaman on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 12:48 am
Gale After Gale After Gale Dumped Two and a Half Feet of Rain Upon Scotland and Wales This Winter
“Reports from the UK Met Office are in. And we can say now with confidence that the UK have never seen weather like what they experienced this Winter. It looks like a storm track super-charged by climate change really socked it to the region this year. That we’ve just passed a winter worse than the then record years of 2013 and 2014 — only two years on.”
http://robertscribbler.com/2016/03/02/gale-after-gale-after-gale-dumped-two-and-a-half-feet-of-rain-upon-scotland-and-wales-this-winter/
Go Speed Racer on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 12:57 am
This is all so G.D. stupid. All the whiners and moaners taking samples and declaring that we all gonna die.
Just solve it like this. Put a fusion warhead in the middle of the complex, light fuse, and get away:
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-of-the-day/atom-bomb-bikini-atoll-pod/
Ker-boom !! Now its Miller Time. And no further need to pay a buncha lazy gubbamint workers to lean on their broom handles pretending to clean it up.
Fun for the whole family. Park some old battleships nearby. We got way better cameras nowadays. Put a Go Pro on the bridge of the battleship watch it go vertical.
NEXT,stop building stupid water-filled uranium-rod reactors. Build Thorium reactors running on molten salt. They can’t melt down, they don’t make much waste, and they produce gobs of energy.
OR, ya gonna just sit there with your guitar, singing Kumbaya watching the orange sparks from your campfire, pissing and moaning that there is no way to solve the problem. But there is you just don’t wanna get on with it.
Go Speed Racer on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 1:02 am
It’s so warm, some flowers bloomed in my yard in February. The birds are flying around making nests in February.
I coulda mowed my grass in February. I didn’t, but I could have.
Global warming deniers looking dumb.
GregT on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 1:25 am
What looks even dumber Go Speed, is climate change realists advocating more of the same shit that got us into this mess in the first place.
We either live sustainably within the confines of the natural environment that every single last one of us needs to survive, or we keep fucking up the only planet that we’ll ever have, just so that we can temporarily have longer lifespans, and more unnecessary consumer crap. It really doesn’t get any simpler. We either stop, or we go bye bye.
Cloud9 on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 7:11 am
Climate change is the nature of the planet. Deserts were once lush grasslands, glaciers carved out the great lakes. Like it or not, local weather will change. There is no doubt that 7 billion of us in our quest for more affluent lives are driving a portion of that change. The notion that any country is going to voluntarily turn out its lights and lower its standard of living for the good of the planet is hubris. What will not voluntarily be done will be the natural consequence of depletion of resources. The middle class is dying because it is no longer sustainable. The upper class is building its bunkers and the rest of us are on our own. The collapse is underway in failing petro states and at the edge of Europe the future is already evident.
Apneaman on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 8:08 am
Cloud9, we’re in an interglacial period and should be heading towards another ice age, not warming up. Moreover, the rate of overall change (for the worse) is unprecedented. It’s all on us. Deal with it. Apes don’t care about “the planet” and never did. They are incapable of stopping or slowing even to save their own offspring. The planet don’t care about baby apes either and is going to slaughter all of them. IMO the greatest arrogance of apes is that they think they are anything more than dopamine driven cancer monkeys. The idea that whats going down is “all natural” and has very little to do with apes burning all that buried carbon and thus puking out 40 billion tons of CO2 every year into the atmosphere is just one more feel good/guilt relief story and ignores chemistry and the planet’s history. Better to just accept that we are what we are and that we are following our evolutionary programming, albeit uniquely cancerous. People love science when it brings the power and the goodies – not so much when it tells uncomfortable truths.
Current pace of environmental change is unprecedented in Earth’s history
“University of Bristol Cabot Institute researchers and their colleagues today published research that further documents the unprecedented rate of environmental change occurring today, compared to that which occurred during natural events in Earth’s history.”
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2016/january/pace-environment-change.html
Kenz300 on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 8:34 am
Nuclear Energy……….”too cheap to meter” (what a lie)…….too expensive to build or clean up…….(truth)
Still poisoning the land, air and water …..
Who will pay to store nuclear waste from all the worlds nuclear power plants FOREVER…… the cost to the environment is too high……
Kenz300 on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 8:39 am
Profits for the Nuclear Industry and their well connected politicians………………..come first………….
Profits before people and the environment………very sad state of affairs……
I find it hard to believe that Japan has learned nothing from the Fukishima disaster………….the corruption of money and politics……
There are too many selfish and self centered people in the world and too few people that care about the common good of society and the planet. Make a mess and leave it for future generations……….what ever happened to the idea of making the people that make the mess clean it up……….
The disaster at Fukishima continues to poison the air, land and water…….. and no one in 5 years has been able to stop it.
The disaster at Chernobyl continues…… with another billion dollars and a new cover installed that will last for how long before it too goes bad…………….
Nuclear energy is a bad experiment being played on the environment and people……..
Apneaman on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 4:50 pm
No end to the shitty news.
Climate Change Will Increase the World’s Cases of Deadly Diarrhea
E. coli, a prolific killer, is going to thrive in warmer waters.
https://www.inverse.com/article/12268-climate-change-will-incre-the-world-s-cases-of-deadly-diarrhea
makati1 on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 6:11 pm
Ap, Cloud seems to be in deep denial that he is the cause. Processes that took thousands and even millions of years in the past is now happening in decades and even years.
I wish he would explain how “normal” it is to release 200+ million years of the sun’s heat in only 200 years and NOT have an increase in the planet’s temperature. After all, we burn 35,000,000,000 barrels of oil, 8,000,000,000 tons of coal and who knows how much natural gas, EVERY YEAR. All piled on top of the sun’s natural heat, the planet’s core heat and the conversion of plants into heat burned in the bodies of 7.4 billion of us apes and another billion cattle, etc.
canabuck on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 7:57 pm
Hong Kong recorded their coldest temperature ever (-5.7 degC) in Jan. 2016. Same for parts of China and Japan. The coldest since records began almost 200 years ago.
Global warming deniers looking dumb?
Apneaman on Wed, 2nd Mar 2016 8:18 pm
canabuck, yes. World Record stupid?
BTW, you got a link to back that assertion?
Go Speed Racer on Thu, 3rd Mar 2016 1:52 am
Hong Kong buried in snow. They don’t have enough snow plows. Bill Whittle says global warming is a hoax.
real7777 on Thu, 3rd Mar 2016 1:59 am
Risk is minimal. Tsunami killed 20,000 so 150 cancer is nothing. Coal is much more dangerous to health and they estimate 2 million death per year from pollution. VW fraud pollution probably will caused around 1000 death.
It is great that Japan started safer plants with new few extra backup plans. Each one opened will make around $1 billion per year. No other country would have shut down all reactors since Japan is the only country that could afford estimated us$33billion per year is loss.
Google “real7777 fukushima”
2015 Testing finds no disaster radiation in Alaska seafood.
Technically TEPCO was not legally responsible since it was natural disaster, but it was responsible Japanese company with good morals.
If accident happened in usa, GE would been bankrupt.
1) Very faulty design and unconcerned about safety(3 GE scientist resigned in protest)
2) 1980s lawsuit made it unbuildable in west coast USA due to unsafe design on earthquake west coast BUT GE built it in earthquake prone Japan.
3) GE(were expert) and built it at that location
4) Faulty procedure.
etc.
Of course if world force GE to recall unsafe plants, GE and USA will probably go bankrupt.
abcnews “Thirty-five years ago, Dale G. Bridenbaugh and two of his colleagues at General Electric resigned from their jobs after becoming increasingly convinced that the nuclear reactor design they were reviewing — the Mark 1 — was so flawed it could lead to a devastating accident. ”
Maybe GE INTENTIONALLY sabotage Japan since it could not compete in electronics.
Of course no one was charged with crime against humanity when USA INTENTIONALLY conducted radiation fallout test on south pacific islanders. I think there is higher than usual minor mutations for Micronesians.
Millions of humans are placed in concentrated refugee camp etc. as well as starve to death because others don’t want them to migrate and cause standard of living to go down. People are irrational and don’t care about millions dying of starving, but make big deal about animal, environment, health or death of very few.
What really needed is birth control but religion and globalists are against it since it reduced potential money.
google “real7777 sumer”