ScribbleLive

@lillymunster My guess this is the 1st of many scope-jobs they will do in unit 2 and this was more of a Unit 2 test run. They will look at the results, see what worked, see what had problems and make changes/improvements.

@lillymunster I can sort of muddle through the translation, the cleanup problem = FUBAR^N and there is no easy fix. TEPCO is doing they what they can but this is going to be very long and expensive mess to cleanup. In the end the Japan government will own/pay for the cleanup.

@lillymunster since you seem to be the "Nuke Queen", have you ever looked at the MIT online course for "Nuclear Reactor Safety" ocw.mit.edu I sat through it (boring) but it gives some background on what Nuke engineers do and think about. This is from 2008 before Fukushima

NHKWorld No records of nuclear disaster taskforce meetings: It has been revealed that the government's nuclear disaster taskforce did not keep any records of its meetings after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident.

Experts say this is a significant loss, as the minutes could help to prevent mistakes from being repeated.

The taskforce, headed by the prime minister and including all the Cabinet members, was launched on the day of the accident on March 11th last year.

It made important decisions, including the designation of evacuation areas, basic policies on decontamination and restrictions on the shipment of agricultural produce.

NHK asked to see the minutes last November, but it only received a list of agenda items for each of the 21 meetings and found there were no other records.

The person in charge at the government's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency, which acts as the secretariat of the taskforce, told NHK that he was too busy to write the minutes.

The public records management act requires minutes of important meetings to be kept, so the government may achieve accountability and the people may verify the process by which decisions are made.

The Cabinet Office, which is responsible for the management of public records, is interviewing the person in charge at the Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.

It is also investigating the lack of minutes for the meetings of the joint taskforce of the Tokyo Electric Power Company and the government, which discussed how to deal with the accident.
Sunday, January 22, 2012 23:27 +0900 (JST) www3.nhk.or.jp
President Nixon had a tape recorder in his office. A lesson learned?