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Japan’s nuclear regulator says the country’s nuclear safety is inadequate

Japan’s nuclear safety ‘not enough’ IOL. za July 15 2015  By Reuters 
Tokyo – Japan’s atomic regulator on Wednesday said falsified documents at Chugoku Electric Power related to radioactive waste showed the country’s nuclear industry still lags on safety more than four years after the Fukushima plant meltdown.

Chugoku Electric on 30 June said it had not conducted the mandatory inspection of equipment for handling low-level nuclear waste, yet had recorded that the checks were carried out.

“From a safety culture point of view, if that kind of thing happens, it’s not good enough,” Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) head Shunichi Tanaka said at a regular press conference on Wednesday, when asked about the incident by Reuters………

The NRA is continuing to review the number two reactor at Chugoku Electric’s sole Shimane nuclear plant for relicencing despite the falsification of documents, an NRA official said, when contacted by Reuters.

Chugoku Electric President Tomohide Karita expects the incident may make it harder to gain the consent of local residents to eventually restart the nuclear plant, a Chugoku spokesman told Reuters on Wednesday……..http://www.iol.co.za/business/news/japan-s-nuclear-safety-not-enough-1.1885678#.Vag2XqSqpHw

July 18, 2015 - Posted by | Japan, safety

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