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TEPCO made plans to leave stricken plant
Topic Started: 20 Aug 2012, 02:09 AM (24 Views)
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TEPCO made plans to leave stricken plant

Jiji Press

Tokyo Electric Power Co. was considering detailed plans to pull workers from its crippled Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant at the outset of the crisis there in March 2011, video footage of the company's accident response shows.

The footage, released to journalists, shows teleconferences between the plant in Fukushima Prefecture, TEPCO's head office in Tokyo and the company's off-site crisis management center near the plant.

On March 14, 2011, after hydrogen explosions at the plant's Nos. 1 and 3 reactor buildings, officials at the TEPCO head office were frustrated with unsuccessful efforts to vent steam from the No. 2 reactor to prevent it from blowing up.

From the head office, then TEPCO Vice President Sakae Muto urged plant workers to vent steam as soon as possible to prevent a significant leak of radioactive iodine and other substances.

At the off-site center, TEPCO Managing Executive Officer Akio Komori ordered plans to be prepared to evacuate workers from the plant, which he said would be needed at some point.

Later in the day, what appears to be a TEPCO staff member reported progress in making the pullout plans, including a plan to begin preparations to withdraw 1-1/2 hours before an expected meltdown at the No. 2 reactor and to evacuate 30 minutes later.

The official also explained plans to move to a TEPCO building near the Fukushima No. 1 plant or the neighboring No. 2 plant.

Ten buses were said to be available for evacuation, although they would not be enough to pull out all 850 plant workers at one time.

According to a report by a Diet inquiry panel on the nuclear accident, then TEPCO President Masataka Shimizu did not say how many workers were at the crippled plant when he notified the government of the utility's intention to evacuate the workers.

Whether TEPCO intended to evacuate all the plant workers has been disputed.

Then Prime Minister Naoto Kan and others have argued that TEPCO was considering a full withdrawal from the No. 1 plant. However, the Diet panel found the argument was based on misunderstandings.

Aug. 20, 2012

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