Ooi, what's that noise?!

[Hugh Jørgen]

Alarm goes off at Oi nuclear plant, 1st trouble since restart decided

An alarm went off Tuesday night at the No. 3 reactor of the Oi nuclear power plant in Fukui Prefecture, indicating a minor problem, the plant operator and the government said Wednesday during preparations to reboot the reactor.

It was the first sign of trouble since the government decided Saturday to restart the plant's Nos. 3 and 4 units, the first among all of Japan's 50 reactors that went offline in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear crisis.

But despite public concerns over nuclear safety, Kansai Electric Power Co. and the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency waited several hours to inform the media about it, after reporting it to local governments in the early hours of Wednesday.

http://english.kyodonews.jp/news/2012/06/164884.html

[Taro]

...the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency waited several hours to inform the media about it, after reporting it to local governments in the early hours of Wednesday...

Hmmm, I wonder how many times they fail to report it at all?

[Screwed-down Hairdo]

Report what?

[IparryU]

Report what?

nothing... it was just the microwave.

[Hugh Jørgen]

Several hours, ten fucken hours, what's the dif?

Ooi Nuke Plant: KEPCO Waited 10 Hours Before Announcing the Alarm and Leak, with NISA's Approval

Or, 13 hours, by some accounts...

The alarm was the first sign of trouble since the government decided to restart the units 3 and 4 Saturday. Disclosure of Tuesday’s incident came at a news conference at 11 a.m. Wednesday—about 13 hours after the warning occurred, Fuji TV reported.

Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency director Yasushi Morishita apologized at the news conference, saying his lapse in judgment caused the delay. He was quoted as saying that officials didn’t think the alarm merited a news conference, Fuji reported.

The agency held a second news conference later Wednesday, at about 4 p.m., and offered its assurances that future disclosures would be made in a more timely manner, Fuji reported.

http://www.japantoday.com/category/nati ... nt-warning

[chokonen888]

Japan...the safety country

[Hugh Jørgen]

Hey Mr. PM, we want to be heard!

http://youtu.be/7OhGKRbGucs

http://youtu.be/rdkTDjHXUkU

[Hugh Jørgen]

Alarms Sounded 26 Times at Power Transmission Line Monitoring Systems for Ooi Nuke Plant

The Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, still the one and only regulatory agency for the nuclear power plants in Japan, disclosed it during the press conference in Ooi-cho on June 24. Plant operator KEPCO says that happens all the time, nothing to worry about.

And the famous last word, "It won't have any effect", on the restart...

[JLR]

What the media failed to report is the alarm was this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTzByQTeyJQ

[IparryU]

What the media failed to report is the alarm was this one.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTzByQTeyJQ

failed to report? no... they just didn't want to raise any concerns among the people. it is ok... Japan is looking after this.

[Level3]

So a system that has nothing to do with the reactor, and uses wireless connections that get jumpy during a lightning storm and now the anti-nuke lobby demands we PANIC?!
Yes, the techs should be spending more time drafting up presentation materials for news conferences about this stupid shit than actually monitoring the plant.
What's next? A heavy truck went by and triggered a false alarm on a seismometer, and they DIDN'T HOLD A LIVE PRESS CONFERENCE before confirming what actually happened?!?!



Turn off your electricity, you don't deserve to use it.