Antinuclear

TEPCO’s current president will oversee “8 teams” at their Tokyo office and 4 teams at the plant tasked with dealing with the water problems. TEPCO says it will invite experts to the task force but does not explain how. The task force will also pull people across divisions within the corporate structure at TEPCO but it was unclear what divisions or expertise this would potentially bring together. So far TEPCO’s commitment to fixing their newest failure is to add water gauges to the tanks, eventually replace the current tanks and promise not to leave the leak dams wide open.

METI, the government agency in charge of promoting nuclear power ended up still in charge of the decommissioning of the disaster site even though the nuclear regulator NRA was moved out of their control.METI made big proclamations today.
“We’ve allowed Tokyo Electric to deal with the contaminated water situation on its own and they’ve essentiallyturned it into a game of ‘Whack-a-Mole,’” Trade Minister Toshimitsu Motegi told reporters today at Fukushima. “From now on, the government will move to the forefront.”

The Prime Minister’s office told Bloomberg that METI “is working to draw up, by some time in September, both emergency measures and more fundamental steps to eliminate the roots of the contaminated water problem, as well as measures to be carried out going forward,”……….

So where is the leader of Japan while everyone scrambles to figure out what to do with the urgent problems at the disaster site? He is off selling nuclear power to other countries. PM Abe left Saturday on a 6 day trip to try to sell nuclear power to middle east and African countries. The current disaster that is causing the government to scramble was declared as not having any impact on Abe’s efforts to sell nuclear power. Fukushima may yet be Abe’s final pork cutlet curry. http://www.fukuleaks.org/web/?p=11308