Regulator says Fukushima operator ‘careless’
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The operator of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant was careless in monitoring tanks storing dangerously radioactive water, the nuclear regulator said yesterday.
Tokyo Electric Power Co also failed to keep records of inspections of the tanks, Nuclear Regulation Authority Commissioner Toyoshi Fuketa said after a visit to the nearby Fukushima Daiichi plant.
Fuketa visited the plant yesterday after NRA Chairman Shunichi Tanaka said this week that he was concerned more of the hastily built giant containers would fail.
“Fundamentally, for a facility holding that kind of radioactive water, they did not take action that foresaw the risks of possible leaks,” Fuketa said.
“On top of that, and this is an impression I had before my visit, I can’t help but say that the inspections were careless.”
Japan’s nuclear crisis this week escalated to its worst level since a massive earthquake and tsunami crippled the plant more than two years ago, with Tokyo Electric saying a tank holding highly contaminated water leaked 300 tons of radioactive fluid.
It was the fifth and worst breach of that type of tank.
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