While Japanese Prime Minister, Naoto Kan, felt, Monday, March 21, that the situation at the Fukushima nuclear plant was improving gradually, the operator Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO) announced that the six reactors at the plant Nuclear Fukushima 1 were connected to the mains, smoke billows from the reactor 3 has dampened hopes.
Immediately, TEPCO announced a partial evacuation of personnel in the nuclear power plant. Units 3 and 4, the most severely damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, had been connected Monday. TEPCO is still assessing the damage to cooling systems of reactors and other components of the plant before attempting to restart.
Ten days before the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the north-eastern Japan and damaged the Fukushima No. 1 plant, TEPCO had given the authorities a document in which he admitted to having falsified the data control registers. The company had previously provided you have checked a dozen pieces, which in reality were not controlled.
TEPCO admitted that a particular card feeding a temperature control valve of the reactor had not been inspected for eleven years, although the technicians, who had merely a routine check, have indicated otherwise. Controls were also inadequate on other parts, including items related to the cooling system and emergency generator.
"The control plan of facilities and maintenance management were inappropriate," concluded the Agency for Nuclear Safety, adding that "the quality of inspections was inadequate." Before the disaster, the policeman ordered Tepco sector had to correct his behavior and to develop a new maintenance plan by June 2.
The agency plans to launch further investigations once the crisis passes. Having already defaced reports in 2002, TEPCO had to stop temporarily for inspection its 17 water nuclear reactors (BWR), including plants in Fukushima. This case had forced the CEO and his right-hand man of the day to resign.
In 2007, after an earthquake in the Niigata region, near the Sea of Japan, TEPCO was forced to lay off its biggest nuclear plant, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, which has seven reactors. It was recognized then that the radiation leaks on this huge site were more important than TEPCO had not initially recognized.
In this situation, the noticeable differences between TEPCO and the authorities do not facilitate the transparency of information or the work of technicians, who take risks on site to stop the escalation. 
Immediately, TEPCO announced a partial evacuation of personnel in the nuclear power plant. Units 3 and 4, the most severely damaged by the earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, had been connected Monday. TEPCO is still assessing the damage to cooling systems of reactors and other components of the plant before attempting to restart.
Ten days before the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the north-eastern Japan and damaged the Fukushima No. 1 plant, TEPCO had given the authorities a document in which he admitted to having falsified the data control registers. The company had previously provided you have checked a dozen pieces, which in reality were not controlled.
TEPCO admitted that a particular card feeding a temperature control valve of the reactor had not been inspected for eleven years, although the technicians, who had merely a routine check, have indicated otherwise. Controls were also inadequate on other parts, including items related to the cooling system and emergency generator.
"The control plan of facilities and maintenance management were inappropriate," concluded the Agency for Nuclear Safety, adding that "the quality of inspections was inadequate." Before the disaster, the policeman ordered Tepco sector had to correct his behavior and to develop a new maintenance plan by June 2.
The agency plans to launch further investigations once the crisis passes. Having already defaced reports in 2002, TEPCO had to stop temporarily for inspection its 17 water nuclear reactors (BWR), including plants in Fukushima. This case had forced the CEO and his right-hand man of the day to resign.
In 2007, after an earthquake in the Niigata region, near the Sea of Japan, TEPCO was forced to lay off its biggest nuclear plant, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, which has seven reactors. It was recognized then that the radiation leaks on this huge site were more important than TEPCO had not initially recognized.
In this situation, the noticeable differences between TEPCO and the authorities do not facilitate the transparency of information or the work of technicians, who take risks on site to stop the escalation.
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