Tepco ordered employees to downplay Fukushima accident

Following up this article..Possible recriticality in reactor2

Weekly Asahi reported another comment of the Tepco engineer from the engineering devision.

“One month after 311, when he was talking to his coworker, he heard they were ordered by the company to downplay the Fukushima accident to make it look less severe than Chernobyl.

It has never happened in the world that multiple reactors exploded. I thought that was a problem to downplay the influence. Probably they did not disclose information for the same reason.”
東電社員 「事故規模をチェルノブイリより小さく見せろ」と指示される

昨年の原発事故以来、週刊朝日は再三にわたって、情報を小出しにする東京電力の姿勢を批判し、社外の第三者の意見を採り入れた情報公開を求めてきた。そうした願いに共感する東電社員も増えてきてはいる。

〈再臨界で新しい熱源ができていることも、決して無理な想定ではない〉

などと福島第一原発2号機の危険性をメールにつづった東電の技術系社員もその一人のようだ。事故から1カ月ほどして、同僚と話していたときのできごととして、

〈事故の現実とは関係なく、「チェルノブイリより規模を小さく見せるように」との指示があると聞き、びっくりした〉

〈複数の原子炉が爆発という世界的に例がない事故で「小さく」という発想には、同僚とはいえ、問題ではないかと強く感じた。このような観点からも、情報公開が事故当初は徹底されなかったのか〉

と書いている。

※週刊朝日 2012年6月8日号
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This website updates the latest news about the Fukushima nuclear plant and also archives the past news from 2011. Because it's always updated and added live, articles, categories and the tags are not necessarily fitted in the latest format.
I am the writer of this website. About page remains in 2014. This is because my memory about 311 was clearer than now, 2023, and I think it can have a historical value. Now I'm living in Romania with 3 cats as an independent data scientist.
Actually, nothing has progressed in the plant since 2011. We still don't even know what is going on inside. They must keep cooling the crippled reactors by water, but additionally groundwater keeps flowing into the reactor buildings from the broken parts. This is why highly contaminated water is always produced more than it can circulate. Tepco is planning to officially discharge this water to the Pacific but Tritium is still remaining in it. They dilute this with seawater so that it is legally safe, but scientifically the same amount of radioactive tritium is contained. They say it is safe to discharge, but none of them have drunk it.

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