Nothing like hearing that a small country prone to earthquakes can’t maintain nuclear reactors correctly. What happens when the big earthquake hits?
Things are not good these days when it comes to safety at Japan’s nuclear power plants:
The reports of safety lapses, fraudulent repairs and cover-ups at Japan’s largest nuclear power company began with a trickle but have resounded into an industry nightmare.
The details, filled in over the last two weeks by one alarming report after another, show a potentially catastrophic pattern of cost-cutting along with 16 years of cover-ups of serious flaws, apparently in an effort to preserve public trust. The pattern includes the systematic falsification of inspection and repair records at 13 reactors at the company, Tokyo Electric, the world’s largest private electrical utility.
(From Antipixel, my favorite blog.)