Apr 15, 2021
A series of security missteps at Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc. s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant should serve as a wake-up call for operators over the importance of addressing a potential terrorism threat immediately after any breach is confirmed, a top expert in the field has said.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday effectively banned Tepco from restarting the plant in Niigata Prefecture after it was revealed that the facility had been susceptible to security breaches at 15 locations, and that 10 of them had been left unattended for more than a month. The regulator also found that a Tepco staffer had got past a security guard last September using a colleague’s ID card, and gained entry to the plant’s central control room, after the employee realized his own ID card was missing.
Apr 15, 2021
A series of security missteps at Tokyo Electric Power Co. Holdings Inc.’s Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant should serve as a wake-up call for operators over the importance of addressing a potential terrorism threat immediately after any breach is confirmed, a top expert in the field has said.
The Nuclear Regulation Authority on Wednesday effectively banned Tepco from restarting the plant in Niigata Prefecture after it was revealed that the facility had been susceptible to security breaches at 15 locations, and that 10 of them had been left unattended for more than a month. The regulator also found that a Tepco staffer had got past a security guard last September using a colleague’s ID card, and gained entry to the plant’s central control room, after the employee realized his own ID card was missing.
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Opposition female lawmakers enter the Lower House Tuesday, wearing white clothing and white roses in protest against sexist remarks by Yoshiro Mori, head of the Tokyo Olympic organizing committee. | KYODO
Kyodo Feb 10, 2021
As public anger toward Tokyo Olympics chief Yoshiro Mori’s sexist remarks continues unabated, critics have pointed out how they have exposed the lack of progress made so far in eliminating entrenched discrimination against women in Japan.
Ten years on, Japan s Fukushima victims worry they ve been forgotten
Posted : 2021-01-02 14:14
Updated : 2021-01-02 22:35
People wearing masks are seen next to a board with messages mourning the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis, at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, March 11, 2020. Reuters
Sumio Konno used to invite neighborhood children and their parents to a barbeque in his garden, overlooking a forest and a pond where water birds would come and go. We would often get together and grill fish, mushrooms and freshly dug bamboo shoots. It was the epitome of a wonderful life, recalled Konno, a former nuclear plant worker, of his old home in rural, north-eastern Japan.