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Japanese regulator bans nuclear plant restart over lax safeguards

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By MARI YAMAGUCHI

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Sloppy anti-terrorism measures. Whew, can't say anymore than that. And while this is going on, Suga and Kishi met with the Fisheries cooperative chairman to discuss releasing contaminated water into the ocean. LDP and TEPCO are a real pair.

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The 'ban' is only a one-year blocking move to allow TEPCO extra time to do something more appealing.

Powsurfer, the 'other five' will be offline for mandated regular inspections which take big chunks of time.

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30% cut of a very large salary for 6 months still leaves a large salary for 6 months - meaningless gesture.

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I am very pronuclear as one of the options necessary to stop fossil fuel dependency, but nuclear power depends very strongly on safety, consequences of lack of safety mechanisms are too strong and long lasting, so I completely agree with a ban based on this reason.

How come energy companies have not learnt their lesson?

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"Lax safeguards?", those turkeys did not learn anything from what happen 10 years ago. That is scary.

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This sentence makes no sense.....

Of the 54 nuclear reactors Japan used to have, nine have been restarted under tougher post-Fukushima safety standards and four are currently operating.

So the other 5 restarted and shut down again?

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Yet nothing has happen. That's good. But a bit scary.

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TEPCO is the type of company that operates REACTIVLY, and NOT PROACTIVELY. This operator must be changed and replaced with a company that will act on it's own proactively and not wait for the inspectors to fix and correct it's screw ups.

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Radioactive water. As one moves up the food chain, the concentration of radionuclides increases. Imagine that. Consumption of the bounty from the sea, thus becomes a health hazard.

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Japanese authorities and Tepco try to release contaminated water including radioactivity such as radioactive iodine or strontium90 to Pacific ocean on the pretext of no places where they put new tanks.

But they only chose cheaper way than buying new places and making new radioactivity tanks.

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