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Japan Engineer: Tepco won’t spend money needed at Fukushima Daiichi — Asahi: Tepco still giving large ‘donations’ to areas with nuclear facilities (VIDEO) http://enenews.com/japan-engineer-tepco-wont-spend-money-needed-fukushima-daiichi-asahi-tepco-giving-large-donations-areas-nuclear-facilities

Mr. Yastel Yamada, a retired engineer and founder of the Fukushima
Skilled Veterans Corps
Uploaded by: Sujoy Sarkar
Filmed: Oct. 18, 2012 at Chabot College
Uploaded on: Oct. 18, 2012

Summary from 26:45 in

No plan to replace with steel pipe
Just makeshift, temporary system
Leaks from piping penetrating groundwater and leaking into the sea
No time or no money to work the same as normal
No plan to replace temporary sea wall over longterm decommissioning schedule
No plan to replace or install permanent infrastructure
One big reason is Tepco is a private company, profit-oriented company.
They want to save the money. They don’t want to spend on such
non-profitable work.
(Subscription Only) Title: TEPCO continued donations to villages after
Fukushima nuclear accident
Source: THE ASAHI SHIMBUN
Authors: Yo Noguchi and Satoshi Otani
Date: October 22, 2012

[Tepco] continued to dole out large sums to rural villages hosting
nuclear power facilities even after the company was supposedly
strapped for cash because of the Fukushima nuclear accident.

Documents obtained by The Asahi Shimbun showed that TEPCO paid 76
million yen ($960,000) to Higashidori, Aomori Prefecture, where a
nuclear power plant is being constructed. […]

TEPCO also paid about 270 million yen to Rokkasho, also in Aomori
Prefecture, after the nuclear accident started, according to the
documents.

The company said the payments to the villages were not donations and
insisted that the money provided to Higashidori was part of
construction expenses for building the nuclear plant.

But in July, industry ministry officials who were appraising TEPCO’s
application to raise household electricity rates concluded that the
payments to the two villages “were of a nature close to donations or
expenses to improve relations with local communities that were not
necessary for the supply of electricity.” […]

TEPCO this year raised electricity rates for its customers […]

October 24, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Japan, secrets,lies and civil liberties