Japan atomic regulator blocked crisis plan revamp
TOKYO, March 16 (Reuters) Japan nuclear regulator may have contributed to last year nuclear disaster by rejecting global cheap canada goose uk standards for disaster response out of fear doing so would undermine public trust, Canada Goose Jackets Trade Minister Yukio Edano said on Friday.
The blocking cheap Canada Goose of the measures, revealed in documents released this week, was the latest canada goose uk black friday sign of lax nuclear oversight that critics have blamed canada goose store for a failure to prepare for a disaster on the canada goose clearance scale of the one at the Fukushima nuclear plant.
On March 11 last canada goose coats year, a magnitude 9 earthquake triggered a tsunami that hit Japan northeast coast, overwhelming a 10 metre (30 foot) breakwater at the Fukushima plant, knocking out cooling systems and canada goose uk outlet triggering meltdowns.
But five years earlier, the Nuclear and Industry Safety Agency (NISA) said Japan disaster prevention measures were fine and the regulator urged that consideration of adopting global standards be dropped.
problems can be found in our country existing Canada Goose Coats On Sale disaster prevention measures, NISA said in a June 2006 document addressed to another panel, the Nuclear Safety Commission, that Canada Goose Parka was considering introducing the standards.
significant changes to the existing disaster prevention scheme risks triggering societal confusion and increasing public worries over nuclear safety.
we would like (the Commission) to freeze consideration (of global standards), NISA said in a canada goose factory sale separate memo to the commission dated April, 2006. nuclear watchdog, which would uk canada goose have expanded the scope of designated disaster response areas, were not introduced.
The Fukushima disaster canada goose black friday sale shattered public trust in atomic power and in the country leaders. The documents, released according to the buy canada goose jacket cheap law in response uk canada goose outlet to a request for disclosure, are likely to reinforce many people doubts.
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bears great responsibility for not having been able to prevent the Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, Trade Minister Edano, canadian goose jacket who oversees the safety agency and energy policy, told a news conference.
considering what led to the disaster, there were several key factors. and it is quite possible that this issue may have directly contributed, he said, referring to the failure to adopt Canada Goose online global standards.
NISA official Yoshinori Moriyama told a news conference on Thursday the agency had at the time not responded adequately to global trends, Canada Goose sale and that was cause for reflection, the Mainichi newspaper reported.
NISA is set to be separated from the Trade Ministry under legislation pending in parliament.
Fukushima canada goose clearance sale damaged reactors spewed radiation across eastern Japan, buy canada goose jacket forcing tens Canada Goose Online of thousands of people from their homes and contaminating food and water. Many evacuees were exposed to radiation as they fled and dozens canada black friday canada goose goose coats on sale of patients died during evacuation from hospitals because of a lack of medical care.
In the latest sign of public frustration, a group of Fukushima residents is planning to file a criminal complaint against executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co, the operator of the Fukushima plant, as well as government officials responsible for canada goose uk shop overseeing nuclear safety, Canada Goose Outlet an organiser said.
The group aims to bring together about 1,000 Fukushima prefecture residents to ask prosecutors to charge Tepco executives and canadagooseparks canada goose government officials with negligence leading to death or injury, organiser Kazuyoshi Sato told Reuters.
there is a system in which someone can take responsibility,. another disaster like this can take place. (Editing by Robert Birsel).