Mayor: Tepco report has fabricated data — Fukushima Official: “We still don’t know what happened in the cores of No. 1, 2 and 3″

Published: June 21st, 2012 at 4:22 pm ET
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Fukushima residents call TEPCO nuke disaster report ‘sloppy’ and ‘false’
Mainichi
June 21, 2012

(TEPCO)’s final report on the Fukushima nuclear disaster has triggered a major backlash from prefectural residents and authorities who call it weak and even laced with falsehoods, it has been learned.

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Yoshihiro Koyama, head of Fukushima Prefecture’s nuclear safety measures division [said] “We still don’t know what happened in the cores of the No. 1, 2 and 3 reactors, among other unclear information.

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Meanwhile, Mayor Tamotsu Baba of the village of Namie points out a significant fabrication of data in TEPCO’s report. While the document states that “TEPCO employees visited the village of Namie from March 13, 2011″ to inform city authorities of details regarding the crisis, Baba says that they heard from TEPCO officials for the first time only in late March.

“This report is not just sloppy in content — it includes falsified information,” said Baba, who is expected to seek charges against the former TEPCO president and other officials for violating a liaison pact by not reporting to the Namie Municipal Government immediately after the outbreak of the disaster.

A 71-year-old resident who evacuated from Tomioka — inside the evacuation zone around the plant — and now lives at a temporary housing complex in the prefectural city of Koriyama, also criticized the report, saying that it is likely TEPCO may still be hiding information from residents.

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Published: June 21st, 2012 at 4:22 pm ET
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