A Fukushima Railroad Station Platform
And the Kanto Plain
(Photos taken by EEE Reporter; click to enlarge.)Review of Japan's Nuclear Accident
Tokyo Electric Power Corporation:
Revenue: ¥5308.0 billion or $66.3 billion (consolidated)
Operating income: ¥576.2 billion or $7.2 billion (consolidated)
Net income: ¥310.3 billion or $3.9 billion (consolidated)
Electricity generated in the nuclear power plants accounts for 32% of TEPCO's electricity sales.
It has total 17 nuclear reactors in its three nuclear power plants, including Fukushima Daiichii.
As four crippled nuclear reactors have put TEPCO in the big trouble, 7.5% of its facilities have turned to be a fatal cause for the enterprise TEPCO.
So, the lesson here is that if you cannot manage and control 7.5% of your assets, facilities, or machine, it can be fatal to your business, especially when the 7.5% is essentially different from other 92.5% in its nature concerning safety to your existence and subsistence.
SECTION I: Other Nuclear Power Plants under 3/11 Disaster
The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant, Iwate Pref., and the Fukushima Daini (No.2) Power Plant, Fukushima Pref., were also under sever pressure and impacts from the 3/11 Earthquakes and Tsunamis.
Yet, unlike the Fukushima Daiichi (No.1) Plant, they could be successfully managed and controlled to settle down in nuclear safety in the wake of the 3/11 Disaster that occurred on northeast Honshu Island, Japan, almost at whose middle point Tokyo is situated.
(1) Fukushima Daini (No.2) Events
March 11:
2:46 pm - The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred. External power source lost. The emergency core cooling systems started.
3:20 pm - A 5.4 meter tsunami hit the plant.
7:26 pm - An emergency diesel generator halted. One system of the emergency core cooling systems halted.
9:52 pm - Valve operation caused reactor pressure to fall. More than 200 degrees C and 67 atmospheres.
March 12:
0:20 am - 53 atmospheres.
3:00 am - 60 atms.
7:20 am - 46 atms.
3:00 pm - 17 atms.
10:40 pm - 1 atm
March 14:
10:02 am - External power sources recovered.
11:43 pm - The emergency core cooling system restarted. More than 120 degrees C and 1 atmosphere in the reactor unit.
March 15:
0:40 am - Cooling work terminated. 54 degrees C in the reactor.
Accordingly, the Fukushima Daini (No.2) Nuclear Power Plant was secured.
(2) Onagawa Events
March 11:
2:46 pm - The Great East Japan Earthquake occurred.
3:30 pm - A 13-meter high tsunami hit the plant, though immersion in sea water could be avoided. A diesel generator was damaged in a reactor unit. A fire occurred in another unit.
6:30 pm - A diesel generator or external power source supplied power for each reactor to cool it.
March 12:
1:00 am - Got into stable condition.
March 13:
10:00 pm - All the reactor units received external power supply to get into operation halt in safety.
Accordingly, the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant was secured.
On the contrary, the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was partly immersed in sea water, losing all the external power source and emergency diesel generators. Accordingly, it faced difficulty in cooling reactors, leading to hydrogen explosion.
Yet, there is no denying a chance that all the three nuclear power plants, Fukushima Daiichi, Fukushima Daini, and Onagawa, might have gotten into a catastrophic situation all together.
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Since the occurrence of the Fukushima Daiichi accident, many scientists and researchers have made appearances on TV.
Most of them are professors of the University of Tokyo, the leading elite university of Japan. And, those leading scientists mostly defended TEPCO. They denied a grave threat and influence of radiation and radioactive material from Fukushima Daiichi on the human body and health.
And, some critis said that they were all bribed by TEPCO.
Yet, it is also well known that many politicians of the conservative LDP received financial aid from TEPCO, while the LDP had been in power for 50 years till September of 2009.
So, the community consisting of TEPCO executives, Tokyo University professors, conservative politicians, and elite bureaucrats of Japan have all failed before the 3/11 Disaster leading to the Fukushima Daiichi tragedy.
However, this grave debacle was apparently triggered by a nonsense and irresponsible visit of PM Mr. Naoto Kan of the DPJ to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in the early morning of March 12.
Now it is highly expected that the opposition LDP would replace the ruling DPJ through the next general election of Japan. The point at issue is how much helpful this nuclear crisis would be for Prime Minister Mr. Naoto Kan trying to stay in the prime minister office as long as possible.
Maybe, the sooner Mr. Kan steps down, the less the crisis of Japan would be expanded.
(Just personal...
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