Japan's nuclear power operator has checkered past

[tabatha]

(Reuters) - The company at the center of a nuclear reactor crisis following the biggest earthquake in Japan's recorded history has had a rocky past in an industry plagued by scandal.

The Japanese government said on Saturday that there had been radiation leakage at Tokyo Electric Power's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi plant following an explosion there.

The blast came as TEPCO was working desperately to reduce pressures in the core of a reactor at the 40-year-old plant, which lies 240 km (150 miles) north of Tokyo.

In 2002, the president of the country's largest power utility was forced to resign along with four other senior executives, taking responsibility for suspected falsification of nuclear plant safety records.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/12/us-japan-nuclear-operator-idUSTRE72B1B420110312


Is this what happens with privatizing?

6 reactors in trouble.
3 reactors with radiation.
2 of them in partial meltdown.

[Kip Humphrey]

1. Certainly STUPID comes to mind when they place emergency generators

where they can be flooded by tsunamis in power plants constructed on Japan's coast.

[bananas]

2. k&r nt