Tohoku Electric gets nod to restart Miyagi reactor damaged in 2011 disaster

restart Miyagi reactor damaged in 2011 disaster

I hope the duct tape holds.

I hope the bribes hold.

This was a unilateral decision by the governor, and the mayor. I saw the street interviews on TV yesterday and people were saying that there should have been a local referendum if not a prefectural one. Once again, someone and I think it would be safe to assume that both the governor and the mayor have received pay outs for this move. Check out the fault line just north of the nukes location in the link provided in the article. If something should go south, the mayor and the governor should be held accountable for at least professional willful negligence.

It would make more sense for approval to be given AFTER the 340 billion yen in upgrades have been completed in the year starting March 2022 (which could mean February 2023!) and after they have been checked and tested.

Giving approval now is irresponsible, but this is the nuclear village,

If something should go south, the mayor and the governor should be held accountable for at least

a 45° bow

About 200 thousands people live in 30 km within from Onagawa nuclear plants.

Nobody knows that they can evacuate or not when Onagawa nuclear disaster.

because Japan's nuclear regulation still avoid to investigate practicability of evacuation plans.

and that life of evacuees are very difficult is already proved since 2011.

What could possibly go wrong?

Dam failures have killed far more people and done far more property damage than all the nuclear power mishaps combined. There there is the damage to migratory fish populations, silt accumulation that deprives river sand bars and coastal beaches of their basic material, etc. Let's tear down every hydroelectric dam too.

Nothing could go wrong with a 50+ year old plant on an earthquake ridden island, could it?