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Monday, December 23, 2013

Poor quality of construction, structural defects and personnel negligence lead to Fukushima disaster - experts

From: The Voice of Russia

New facts about the Fukushima nuclear power plant are coming out now that two and a half years have elapsed since the dreadful disaster in March 2011. According to a local labour commission, low-skilled workers, illegally recruited in Japan's poorest areas, were used in building the nuclear power plant in the 1960s. The poor quality of construction, as well as structural defects and personnel negligence had eventually triggered disastrous consequences.
The off-shore quake-caused tsunami hit the Fukushima plant when Naoto Kan was the Prime Minister of Japan. He has since admitted that the Japan Atomic Energy Agency had lied to him about the situation at the plant. "We were unprepared for the horrible accident," he said.
Following the powerful 9.0 magnitude quake on March 11th 2011 the plant's automatic checkout and control systems shut down the reactors and cut them off current. But the chain reaction in the reactors was still on, which called for their continuous cooling. The pumps immediately activated the stand-by diesel generators. However, these were able to operate for no more than half an hour, until the huge tsunami wave hit the plant and flooded the turbine island, causing the pumps to grind to a standstill. Even the brought-in mobile generators failed to restart the pumps. Without cooling, the reactors overheated causing core meltdowns and subsequent radioactive contamination of the nearby area. Meanwhile, the zirconium entrails of reactors were oxidized by water vapour, releasing hydrogen in the process. Deputy Head of the Russian Duma Committee on Natural Resources,Mikhail Shingarkin, feels that it was possible to avoid this kind of scenario.


Read more: http://voiceofrussia.com/2013_12_23/Poor-quality-of-construction-structural-defects-and-personnel-negligence-lead-to-Fukushima-disaster-experts-9355/
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