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TEPCO Withholds "Black Box" Data About Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
http://www.simplyinfo.org/?p=10359
TEPCO Withholds “Black Box” Data About Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
May 13th, 2013
In April of 2010 TEPCO signed a contract with high tech security company Magna BSP to provide a sophisticated video and trespass detection system at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This was the first installation of what was to be a series of similar installations at nuclear plants around Japan, coordinated between the government and nuclear operators. The system was installed at Fukushima Daiichi in 2010
Two TEPCO workers who were trained on the system weeks before the disaster were confirmed to have been among the Fukushima 50 who stayed at the plant during the worst of the disaster. To date TEPCO has not acknowledged the existence of the system or volunteered any of the video and data captured by the system to the public or the press. This data was never taken into account by any of the investigations into the disaster that commenced in 2011 and 2012.
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The company also told the press that the perimeter security system could have recorded radiation via the IR portion of those cameras and could give important data about radiation levels at the plant.
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Jpost also cites one of the company officials at Magna BSP that they had installed equipment to monitor “the core” at unit 3 and were going to do the same for another reactor at the plant. Magna BSP does not clarify what monitoring is involved but admits there is some additional monitoring at the unit 3 reactor that was in place before the disaster. This is likely video and security monitoring of the refueling floor of unit 3 rather than any actual monitoring of the reactor core itself.
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This data should be made public in an unedited and usable format asap. The existence or lack thereof of any data from these systems should be independently verified. Not just for the exclusive use of the select favored press as TEPCO did with much of the teleconference video but made publicly available to all immediately. This critical information should be made part of all post disaster investigations as they were denied this important information during their work.
Images:
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These images, the original photos and other related imagery can be found on our photo archive here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simplyinfo/sets/72157633470116247/with/8736093902/
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TEPCO Withholds “Black Box” Data About Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
May 13th, 2013
In April of 2010 TEPCO signed a contract with high tech security company Magna BSP to provide a sophisticated video and trespass detection system at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. This was the first installation of what was to be a series of similar installations at nuclear plants around Japan, coordinated between the government and nuclear operators. The system was installed at Fukushima Daiichi in 2010
Two TEPCO workers who were trained on the system weeks before the disaster were confirmed to have been among the Fukushima 50 who stayed at the plant during the worst of the disaster. To date TEPCO has not acknowledged the existence of the system or volunteered any of the video and data captured by the system to the public or the press. This data was never taken into account by any of the investigations into the disaster that commenced in 2011 and 2012.
<snip>
The company also told the press that the perimeter security system could have recorded radiation via the IR portion of those cameras and could give important data about radiation levels at the plant.
<snip>
Jpost also cites one of the company officials at Magna BSP that they had installed equipment to monitor “the core” at unit 3 and were going to do the same for another reactor at the plant. Magna BSP does not clarify what monitoring is involved but admits there is some additional monitoring at the unit 3 reactor that was in place before the disaster. This is likely video and security monitoring of the refueling floor of unit 3 rather than any actual monitoring of the reactor core itself.
<snip>
This data should be made public in an unedited and usable format asap. The existence or lack thereof of any data from these systems should be independently verified. Not just for the exclusive use of the select favored press as TEPCO did with much of the teleconference video but made publicly available to all immediately. This critical information should be made part of all post disaster investigations as they were denied this important information during their work.
Images:
<snip>
These images, the original photos and other related imagery can be found on our photo archive here.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/simplyinfo/sets/72157633470116247/with/8736093902/
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