TEPCO promises safety as it seeks to restart reactors

Any pledge made by TEPCO is about as trustworthy as a fox guarding the hen house!

Pledges, urges and suggestions. I'm sure everybody else is as sick of hearing them as I am. How about, legislation, enforcement and severe penalties for non-compliance?

TEPCO pledges safety as it seeks to restart reactors

Just how stupid do these muppets think we are??

I hate to keep referencing the same report but I will again. I guess I keep making reference to this as it was made by a panel of Japanese and identifies key factors (some of them Japan's cultural factors) that led to this incident.

https://www.nirs.org/wp-content/uploads/fukushima/naiic_report.pdf

Until all issues identified in this report are full addressed, responded to, and corrected TEPCO should not be able to start a reactor. The Message from the Chairman on page 9 summarizes things quite well. Most of these issues take many years to fix and a vast cultural shift in the ways things are done.

they're also hanging in there, promising themselves, keeping their fingers crossed, knocking on wood, and looking at the sunny side of life

The Message from the Chairman on page 9 summarizes things quite well.

Thanks for linking to this. It's quite accurate.

Oh, I see the headline has been updated from 'pledges' to 'promises'. Why should we believe them? This is the same company who falsified safety reports and straight up lied about upgrades that were supposed to have beeb done. A TEPCO promise is not worth the paper it is written on.

How about our 10% increase back now you are about to restart?

Well, good start, there is new company logo. First change was made!