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