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Tokyo Electric Scandal Updates

Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 17
Date: October 26, 2002
Contents:
  1. METI to order one year shutdown of Fukushima Dai-Ichi Unit 1
  2. Operation status of TEPCO reactors
  3. Leaked documents reveal alpha nuclide emissions from Fukushima Dai-Ichi Unit 1 & 2 between 1979 and 1981
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 16
Date: October 11, 2002
Contents:
  • Aomori governor threatens to halt SNF imports
  • Fukushima legislature passes motion declaring: "Pluthermal Program will not be implemented in Fukushima"
  • Tokyo Electric announces damaged CRDM guide tubes in Fukushima Dai-Ichi Unit 4 reactor
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 15
Date: October 9, 2002
Contents:
  1. (1) Fukushima governor meets Prime Minister Koizumi and calls for reconsideration of nuclear fuel cycle policy
  2. (2) Chugoku Electric failed to report shroud cracks
  3. (3) Asahi opinion poll finds 90% fear nuclear accident
  4. (4) METI received six allegations of impropriety in September
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 14
Date: September 30, 2002
Contents:
  1. Meti will not prosecute TEPCO for falsifications of voluntary inspection data
  2. TEPCO regularly manipulated compulsory inspection data. Will METI prosecute
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 13
Date: September 25, 2002
Contents:
  1. Japco admits to falsifying reports
  2. Shroud cracking found at two more utilities
  3. Tepco failed to report CDRM damage from 1988
  4. Aomori newspaper editorial calls for moratorium on SNF shipments to Rokkasho
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 12
Date: September 20, 2002
Contents:
  1. TEPCO publishes report about falsification of GEII findings
  2. Hitachi and Toshiba implicated in falsification of inspection results of recirculation pumps and pipes at TEPCO reactors
  3. Chubu Electric fails to report cracks at Hamaoka Units 1 and 3. Shut down of Unit 3 means all four reactors to be shut down
  4. Tohoku Electric fails to report cracks at Onagawa Unit 1
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 11
Date: September 13, 2002
Contents:
  1. TEPCO consults with METI about illegal repair method
  2. METI misinformed public about whistle-blowers intent in order to justify
  3. two-year delay
  4. Committee meets to scrutinize METI’s two year investigation
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 10
Date: September 12, 2002
Contents:
  1. Niigata leaders simultaneously annul prior permission for pluthermal program
  2. Fukushima governor expresses indisposition with METI
  3. TEPCO illegally repaired ECCS at Fukushima I-1, camouflaged repaired area to avoid detection
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 9
Date: September 10, 2002
Contents:
  1. METI establishes two committees to investigate TEPCO scandal
  2. Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 8
Date: September 6, 2002
Contents:
  1. Kashiwazaki city legislature passes motion calling for cancellation of the pluthermal program
  2. Shroud cracks discovered much earlier, internal rules revised to decrease frequency of shroud inspections
  3. Fukui governor decides against giving permission for JAPCO to build new reactors
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 7
Date: September 5, 2002
Contents:
  1. Shroud cracks at Fukushima II-3 known for years
  2. METI visits Aomori Prefecture, stresses no change in nuclear energy policy
  3. New nuclear power plant construction plans put on hold
  4. TEPCO employees based falsification decisions on US standards
  5. Niigata leaders visit Tokyo, call for impovements in nuclear safety supervision
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 6
Date: September 4, 2002
Contents:
  1. TEPCO falsified shroud replacement application forms
  2. METI minister informed one day before public announcement
  3. TEPCO vice-president admits knowledge of shroud problems during tenure as head of Kashiwazaki-Kariwa
  4. TEPCO conducts door-to-door apologies in Fukushima
  5. TEPCO to refrain from advertising
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 5
Date: September 3, 2002
Contents:
  1. Radioactive Leak at Fukushima II-2
  2. TEPCO president resignation press conference
  3. Employees’ motive for falsification
  4. METI’s excuse for taking two years to investigate
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 4
Date: September 2, 2002
Contents:
  1. Pluthermal permission retracted
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 3
Date: September 1, 2002
Contents:
  1. TEPCO announces resignations
  2. Fukushima municipalities vote to request withdrawl of pluthermal program permission
  3. TEPCO aware of falsification in March 2002
  4. Shroud Damage: "Nothing abnormal"
  5. Reactors to be shutdown and inspected
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 2
Date: August 31, 2002
Contents:
  1. Former GE employee sent letter to METI in July 2000
Tokyo Electric Scandal
Update Number 1
Date: August 31, 2002
Contents:
  1. METI’s investigation reveals more falsification
  2. Possibility of systematic falsification
  3. TEPCO president and chairman to resign
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