In accordance with Japanese custom, the company head, thus chastised, inclined his head and replied, "I apologize for not being able to live up to your expectations." "You do not know what you're doing," Klein told company president Naomi Hirose in person. Klein is generally a polite man, but he recently announced in public exactly what he thinks of the company that hired him. In the eyes of industry experts and the Japanese public alike, the company has proved one thing unequivocally - that it is in far over its head in trying to handle the aftermath of the disaster.
"I can assure you when they get back from this trip, all of these chief nuclear officers will double their safety precautions," says Dale Klein, who has made the same trip and describes it as "very sobering." Klein, who was head of the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission until 2009, now serves as chair of the Nuclear Reform Monitoring Committee, which advises Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the company that once ran the Fukushima power plant and is now responsible for cleaning up the site. There, dressed in protective suits, they will walk through the ruins left behind by the earthquake of the century, the tsunami of the century and the resulting triple nuclear reactor meltdown that occurred in March 2011. They are travelling to Japan and then taking a bus to Fukushima. This week, the chief nuclear officers of around 100 American nuclear power plant reactors are taking a field trip. US nuclear inspector Dale Klein is demanding the intervention of foreign experts, but a quick solution is unlikely. 14, 2013— - Japan is stumbling helplessly from one crisis to the next as it battles the ongoing disaster at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. "Still, even a limited investigation offers the prospect of important lessons and insights.Sept. "Since it is still impossible to scrutinize conditions inside the reactors, the investigation is unlikely to clarify the entire picture," the editorial said. After battery backups were depleted, the pumps stopped and the reactors overheated, causing a buildup of hydrogen, an explosion and subsequent meltdown of the reactor cores.Īn editorial published Thursday in The Asahi Shimbun said that Japan's Nuclear Regulation Authority had decided to reopen an investigation into the Fukushima disaster after suspending it five years ago. The giant waves that struck the coast in 2011 overwhelmed a seawall at the plant meant to protect backup generators needed to run cooling pumps in case of a loss of main power. "It was easy to safeguard the plant against tsunami, but they kept operating the plant heedlessly," the prosecutors said at the time, according to The Asahi Shimbun. Last year, prosecutors called for five-year prison sentences for each of the three defendants. But prosecutors sought to hold the former TEPCO executives liable for 44 elderly patients in a nearby hospital who died during an evacuation caused by the disaster. There has been only one death attributed directly to the three meltdowns that caused the area surrounding the plant to be contaminated.
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