"Risky Event": Japan is about to restart the 44-year-old reactor at the Mihama nuclear power plant

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In Japan, plans are being discussed by the government to restart a 44-year-old reactor at the Mihama nuclear power plant in Western Japan, in Fukui Prefecture.

The government explains the need for restarting by the fact that before the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant, nuclear power plants provided 30% of Japan's energy resources, the restoration of the operation of the reactors will change the situation in the energy sector. In particular, the Mihama NPP reactor could improve the power supply to Osaka and its industrial suburbs.



Environmentalists have the opposite point of view. They argue that the authorities did not take into account the lessons of Fukushima and are now making the same mistake again, ignoring the many risks associated with the launch of the 44-year-old reactor.

This is an extremely risky undertaking.

- noted in Japan itself.

The reactor, which is being launched, is the oldest among the reactors to be restarted since the 2011 disaster. To launch it, it was required to take special permission from the government to extend the service life beyond the forty years that it had already served. At the same time, the system of regulation and supervision of reactors in Japan has numerous shortcomings, due to which most of the reactors are currently inoperative: they are not started up, because they do not trust the results of inspections.

Former deputy chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission under the Japanese government, Tatsujiro Suzuki, believes that the permission to restart the reactor was given with violations. Lack of transparency and subsidies to turn the local population in their favor were the main characteristics of the permitting process.


Recall that in 2011, a powerful earthquake occurred off the northeastern coast of Japan, which killed 15 thousand people. The earthquake led to a shutdown of cooling at the Fukushima nuclear power plant. As a result, huge clouds of radioactive material formed over land and sea. One of the reasons for the disaster was, among other things, weak supervision by those government agencies that were supposed to be responsible for assessing the tsunami risks.

Industry and government, according to Suzuki, have not learned from the experience of the disaster at the Fukushima station, which entails the emergence of new risks. Therefore, certain forces began to push the idea of ​​restarting the reactor. Representatives of the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which are lobbying for the introduction of nuclear energy, have become frequent visitors to Fukui.

Local authorities received impressive subsidies from the government, after which Governor Fukui approved the restart of the reactor.

The government, in turn, claims that the trips to Fukui were carried out to "exchange views." Of course, officials exclude any corruption component in these visits.

Meanwhile, Kiyoshi Kurokawa, who investigated the accident at the Fukushima plant, is convinced that the collective thinking of government officials prevails in Japan, putting the interests of the ministry or corporation above protecting the safety of the public and the environment.
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  1. +11
    23 June 2021 10: 03
    Here it is the samurai, there is no Godzilla on them.
    1. +10
      23 June 2021 10: 09
      Quote: Vladimir_2U
      There is no Godzilla on them.

      But they are working on it ...
      1. +3
        23 June 2021 10: 11
        No matter how velikoukry, they did not decide to restart Chernobyl. wassat
        1. +3
          23 June 2021 10: 13
          Quote: bondrostov
          No matter how velikoukry, they did not decide to restart Chernobyl.

          Until they can.)))))
        2. +1
          23 June 2021 12: 11
          The Europeans will not allow them.
        3. -2
          23 June 2021 13: 05
          Quote: bondrostov
          No matter how velikoukry, they did not decide to restart Chernobyl. wassat

          To whom, what. And the lousy about the bath. In the sense: not a single comment without Ukraine ?!
      2. +7
        23 June 2021 10: 16
        But they are working on it ...
        ... they worked better on Fukushima, the problem of dumping radioactive material has not yet been resolved ... radioactive water has been pouring into the ocean for 10 years, and there is no end in sight ... they are working .... they hammered the bolt
        1. +4
          23 June 2021 10: 18
          Quote: Crimean partisan 1974
          radioactive water has been pouring into the ocean for 10 years now, and there is no end in sight.

          Well, you yourself confirmed - work on the creation of Godzilla is underway.
          1. +4
            23 June 2021 10: 28
            - work on the creation of Godzilla is underway.
            ..... but who can argue, let them create for personal use ... I care about something else ... Hurasio current carries this radioactive ... to the striped banks ... this is good ... but there is one but. ..migrating fish go to spawn in our Far Eastern rivers after eating contaminated food ..... it is not clear where the IAEA is, ..to see worried about Bushehr
            1. +1
              23 June 2021 10: 46
              There is no choice, the land is very expensive, for example, there is nowhere to put wind turbines.
              So the "green" future in Japan is very vague.
              1. +2
                23 June 2021 11: 24
                No choice - earth
                ... when in my youth I wrote out a journalist "Technology of Youth", so there were regularly described tidal hydroelectric power plants and wave ... and like the samurai in this matter were ahead of the whole planet .... they probably lied ...
            2. +4
              23 June 2021 11: 25
              I'm also wondering where all these greens, ecologists, greenpeaces are always preoccupied with laying our pipelines
              1. +4
                23 June 2021 11: 34
                Quote: Prjanik
                Greenpeaces are always preoccupied with laying our pipelines

                Well, how to say, here the fish is radioactive, it glows, which is even convenient, and the fish of gas swallowed will explode in a frying pan. laughing
      3. +1
        23 June 2021 10: 37
        No, there they have a GNUS in the reactor asleep, but then Gavrila will wake up and come, ugh Godzilla and arrange a local armogide for them
        1. 0
          23 June 2021 11: 30
          then Gavrila will come,
          .... will not come ... I myself have enough problems
        2. +1
          23 June 2021 14: 52
          Quote: Forcecom
          and Gavrila will come

          Served as a security guard for Gavril,
          Gavril NUSA did not let go ...

          Served as Gabril's security guard
          with Godzilla, NUSA was guarding ...
      4. 0
        23 June 2021 13: 34
        Quote: mark1

        But they are working on it ...

        It is in them that the hara-kiri gene demands its victims.
        Not from war, but from nuclear contamination. It's boring, the islands are small, there is nothing to do. Either provoke neighbors with territorial claims, or indulge in reactors.
    2. -13
      23 June 2021 10: 12
      Quote: Vladimir_2U
      Here it is the samurai, there is no Godzilla on them.

      Well done, they are all doing the right thing! Unlike some of them, they are actively developing their country, their fleet and their armed forces. We could learn a lot from them. Another thing is that this is our enemy in this theater of operations. And today he is stronger than us in many aspects, which cannot but cause concern.
      1. +4
        23 June 2021 10: 20
        Well done, they are all doing the right thing!
        ... yeah .. that's for sure well done
        1. -10
          23 June 2021 10: 28
          Quote: Crimean partisan 1974
          ... yeah .. that's for sure well done

          I can draw a lot of such pictures for you.)))) If you post something as proof of something, then attach the link. And then, where in my comment did I say that I approve of any activity that is harmful to the environment? Besides, you don't want to look for a similar picture about the Russian North and Potanin, for example? Have they eliminated all the consequences of an environmental disaster associated with oil spills?
          1. +11
            23 June 2021 10: 44
            then attach the link.
            ... this is not why ... these images are provided by the NOVA organization .. approximately the same as the course of the wave height during the 2011 earthquake .. so go to their website and study .. there are a lot of interesting things
        2. +1
          23 June 2021 10: 29
          Quote: Crimean partisan 1974
          Well done, they are all doing the right thing!
          ... yeah .. that's for sure well done

          America needs to get it ... then the evil Yankees will come and repeat Hiroshima
      2. 0
        23 June 2021 12: 54
        An absolutely unacceptable attitude towards ecology nullifies all their achievements. Who gave them the right to deliberately destroy all life around their islands?
        1. -8
          23 June 2021 13: 03
          Quote: Daria33
          An absolutely unacceptable attitude towards ecology nullifies all their achievements. Who gave them the right to deliberately destroy all life around their islands?

          And don't you want to ask Potanin and the Russian authorities the same question about their native country and the Russian North? Otherwise, yes, today the attitude of individual oligarchs and entire countries towards nature is unacceptable! For profit, their own mother will be sold, as if they think that they will live on another planet.
          1. 0
            23 June 2021 16: 02
            the authorities have the same question about their native country and the Russian North,
            ...... you might think that you are badly poisoned by organic matter refueling your car every day ..... funny .... you obviously have a lack of knowledge in physics of the 8th grade level
            1. -1
              23 June 2021 17: 40
              Quote: Crimean partisan 1974
              ...... you might think that you are badly poisoned by organic matter refueling your car every day ..... funny .... you obviously have a lack of knowledge in physics of the 8th grade level

              In fact, does the comment have something to say? Or did your parents just teach you how to be rude?
          2. 0
            23 June 2021 17: 17
            And Potanin and the Russian authorities have the same question about their native country and the Russian North,

            Do you know what all your comments are called? Smulakr. You are trying to translate a discussion into a non-discussion topic that you need. am
            1. -3
              23 June 2021 17: 45
              Quote: bk316
              Do you know what all your comments are called? Smulakr. You are trying to translate a discussion into a non-discussion topic that you need.

              What is the difference between the nastiness that the Japanese did and the nastiness that the Potanin enterprises did? Exactly the same thing is happening in other countries of the world, do you think that this is how it should be? Or is it just the Japanese who are bad, and everyone else is good? And yes, the word "simulacrum", if you meant it, is a little from another opera.)))
              1. +1
                23 June 2021 18: 28
                What is the difference between the nastiness that the Japanese did and the nastiness that the Potanin enterprises did?

                The risk of a radiation accident from the launch of an old nuclear power plant is discussed.
                Pay attention not even to the consequences of Fukushima, but to the new risk.
                Fukushima is only so sideways that the officials giving permission are the same as making decisions on Fukushima.
                WHICH SIDE IS PATANINE TO THIS RISK?
                1. -2
                  23 June 2021 18: 42
                  Quote: bk316
                  WHICH SIDE IS PATANINE TO THIS RISK?

                  As a common example of the culprit of an ecological disaster. There are a lot of such potanins, they are in every country. Whether the Japanese arrange a disaster there or not, there is not enough material today to talk about it. And Potanin was cited as an example of "our" culprit of the ecological catastrophe, in response to the fact that not all the consequences were eliminated from Fukushima. That's all.))))
                  1. +1
                    23 June 2021 18: 45
                    This is a common example of the culprit of an ecological disaster.

                    Well, let's talk about the Hodor, he has done enough in Siberia, or about other libero-oligarchs who are now struggling with the authorities. Or about Chernobyl or about the Techa River, even though there were radiation accidents.

                    ... Whether the Japanese arrange a disaster there or not, there is not enough material today to talk about it.

                    It seems to you so, you have no information, and the article is about this. And there is no need to switch to another topic.
                    1. 0
                      23 June 2021 19: 11
                      Quote: bk316
                      Well, let's talk about the Hodor, he has done enough in Siberia, or about other libero-oligarchs who are now struggling with the authorities.

                      And how do some oligarchs differ from others? Their whole struggle is not so much a struggle with power as a struggle for power. In general, the government of any capitalist country protects the interests of certain oligarchs.
                      Quote: bk316
                      It seems to you so, you have no information, and the article is about this. And there is no need to switch to another topic.

                      What is the article about? Are there any indisputable facts? No, there is the opinion of some regular "expert". Everything! Remember, any construction of a nuclear power plant, and if, oh, horror, it is being built by the Russian Federation, then such "experts" appear a dime a dozen. To develop the economy, you need cheap energy, that's it, period. This is what triggers this reaction. And the risk, it is everywhere and always, but in order to adequately assess it, the article data is severely lacking.))))
        2. 0
          24 June 2021 00: 30
          Oh, how .... Right ..... When we in the Far East until 1993, EMNIP, drowned liquid and solid radioactive waste, the question of the right somehow did not arise. One journalist twitched to cover the topic and sat down right there. And they began to drown them not a couple of years before ...
    3. +1
      23 June 2021 13: 56
      That's why they are samurai: life for them is worth nothing for the sake of some, only they understand, ideals ... but to build a nuclear power plant on the VOLCANO? Start an "ancient" reactor? That's where corruption is, that's where kickbacks are! God forbid, someone else (me) will take advantage of such an idea ... or is it the consequences of 1945?
  2. +1
    23 June 2021 10: 15
    Along the way, radiation acts like a drug on them!
  3. +1
    23 June 2021 10: 16
    It is a extremely risky undertaking... The local authorities received impressive subsidies from the government, after which the governor of Fukui approved the restart of the reactor
    Those who do not take risks receive no subsidies from the government and possibly no "gifts" from stakeholders.
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  5. +4
    23 June 2021 10: 34

    STALKER: Shadow of Fukui - soon, in all the zombies of the world ... wassat
    1. 0
      23 June 2021 10: 50
      a new toy or a disaster kin ... ... Call of Pripyat the Bombay toy was a pity there is no continuation
  6. 0
    23 June 2021 10: 36
    Why don't the windmills install?
    1. -1
      23 June 2021 10: 48
      Why don't the windmills install?
      .... this is green energy, and samurai love to kill whales, so antagonism turns out
      1. 0
        23 June 2021 10: 49
        The whales can swim in circles and turn the turbine.
        1. -2
          23 June 2021 11: 02
          The whales can swim in circles and turn the turbine.
          ...... no, donkeys can rotate the mill in a circle with a carrot tied at their noses for days ... and whales have nothing to powder in front of their noses ... except perhaps a shoal of herring in a bag in front of their noses ... although it's also a problem. .. whales attack from bottom to top .... in short, an empty idea
  7. +1
    23 June 2021 10: 44
    The most technologically advanced country in the world ...
  8. +1
    23 June 2021 11: 26
    what Is this nostalgia for the atomic bombing?
  9. +1
    23 June 2021 11: 37
    ... and then the dirty water will be drained into the Pacific Ocean
  10. +1
    23 June 2021 11: 41
    Cancer tumor Japanese industry ENERGY !!! Japan is probably at the top of the world in terms of earthquake threats. But their choice of energy source has little or nuclear energy or coal !!!
    THERE IS AND GAS FROM RUSSIA BUT IT IS NOT ALLOWED TO BUILD THEM IN THE US !!!
    The United States does not give a damn that the launch of a 40-year-old reactor is exactly RUSSIAN ROULETTE anyway, how many checks will be and what. Fukushima ENVIRONMENTALLY DESTROYED THE SEA AND COPNO JAPAN AND THERE IS NO ONLY JAPAN, BUT NO ONE OFFERED TO MAKE A THREAD FOR GAS FROM RUSSIA !!!
    RUSKI GAS DANGER OF NUCLEAR REACTOR 40 YEARS OLD !!!
    There, he allegedly wants to return Kurilia, but they have already leaned the pistol to the head on the pretext of the hosts.
    IT IS IN REALITY THE SLAVE OF THE 21 CENTURY AND MODERN SLAVERY !!!
  11. 0
    23 June 2021 13: 49
    Local authorities received impressive subsidies from the government, after which Governor Fukui approved the restart of the reactor.

    So that's where the dog rummaged! And I thought they remember 1945, Fukushima ... Funding has opened! And these people forbid us to pick our noses? .. lol
  12. +2
    23 June 2021 13: 50
    Japanese mother ... okay, they'll finish themselves, I'm just - FOR! The sea-oceans will be poisoned, it's a pity ...
  13. +1
    23 June 2021 17: 20
    I'll go to atominfo and read what kind of reactor ...
  14. 0
    23 June 2021 21: 15
    This is an extremely risky undertaking.

    And what, all the radioactive water will go towards Russia - the Sea of ​​Okhotsk ..
    Gretta gives the go-ahead and Greenpiss too ..


    The Japanese. Will still answer for this ..
  15. -1
    24 June 2021 15: 03
    And I used to think that such mismanagement is possible only in Russia. The Japanese, on the other hand, are more punctual than the Germans, they everywhere have the strictest rules of the ritual, painted before each turn of the head.
  16. 0
    24 June 2021 15: 03
    What if an accident occurs? Will it be necessary to provide the countries bordering with Japan with land for resettlement of refugees from this country? So, it seems, it is spelled out in the UN documents, but I could be wrong ... In this case, the direction of the collective thought of the Japanese leaders is quite understandable. We must immediately indicate that we can offer the Japanese a "Far Eastern hectare", but, of course, not on the Kuril Islands.

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