Teleconference in the 1st days of the crisis at Fukushima Daiichi

　以下は、NY Timesに転載されていたフクイチ原発災害発生時の東電のテレビ会議の記録であり、東電の手によってわずか１５０時間分を８４分間に大幅に修正、カット、公表されたいわくつきの映像資料である。これを見てもわかるように、モザイクや音声カットなど、修正箇所があまりにも多すぎる。

　フクイチ原発災害は人類が体験したことのない組織的な人災によって引き起こされた未曽有の大災害である。故に当事者である東電、原発ムラ、保安院、安全委員会、首相官邸の政治家の対応については一部の修正もなくすべてを全世界に公開し、人類共通の負の遺産として、各国語に翻訳して大切に共有・保管すべき重要な資料として扱うべきものである。

　少なくとも、東電は顧客である消費者や、経営を支え続けている納税者に対して、いつ、どこの誰がどのような局面において、どこでどんな判断・対応をしたのか。それによって、かくも甚大な被害を日本全国に拡散させるような結果になってしまったのか、すべてを白日のもとに晒すべきであり、個人情報の保護などの屁理屈による情報の隠蔽、資料の隠匿など許されるべきではない。

N.Y. Timesの記事にそういった情報公開に対する批判的な観点がないのは残念なことである。

東電を含めた原発を有する地域独占の電力会社は、これまであちこちから訴訟の対象となってきたが、べらぼうに高い電気料金を聴取して、辣腕の顧問弁護士団を雇入れ、既得権益のために係争することを当然のこととしてきたが、そのこと自体が大きな了見違いである。

東電を含めた電力会社は、消費者を欺き、第一義とすべき安全でコストの低い電力供給を行う努力を怠り、ひたすら暴利を貪ってきた。本来ならば、政府は速やかに発送電分離を行い、電力の自由化を進めるべきであるし、地域独占を行ってきた電力会社の経営陣は総辞職して消費者に償いをすべきである。

活断層や原発の老朽化が専門家によって指摘され、原発の危険性がこれほどまでに叫ばれ、多くの市民が脱原発の声を上げ続けている。にもかかわらず、馬耳東風で大きな顔をして原発推進を固持する、関電の八木会長をはじめとする、「消費者の安全を守る」というもっとも基本的な、モラルが完全に欠落した、危険極まりない経営者は速やかに退場すべきである。

また、今後、日本の地域独占の電力会社が原発廃炉、廃棄物処理の多額の費用を捻出するためにも、経営陣の徹底的な所得カットに加え、電力会社は持ち回りの国選弁護人で、すべての訴訟事件に臨むべきであると考えるのは、至極当然のことではないのか。

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/video-shows-fukushima-crisis-talks/?ref=atomicenergy

August 10, 2012, 3:21 PM Comment

Video Shows Fukushima Crisis Talks

By ROBERT MACKEY

Video excerpts from teleconferences between Tepco managers and engineers recorded from March 12-15, 2011, as they tried to deal with the stricken nuclear plant at Fukushima.

As Hiroko Tabuchi reports in Friday’s New York Times, the Tokyo Electric Power Company released 150 hours of video this week that was recorded during teleconferences last year in the first days of the crisis at the utility’s nuclear plant at Fukushima.

The recordings offered the Japanese public new glimpses of how managers and engineers responded to the catastrophe that began on March 11, 2011, when the plant’s reactors were crippled by an earthquake and tsunami.

After Tepco posted almost 89 minutes of the video, showing parts of the crisis talks on March 12, 14 and 15, on its Web site, a video blogger who has created a YouTube archive of all the footage released by the company posteda copy on the video-sharing site.

The video excerpts posted online by Tepco show some of the discussions that took place between engineers at the plant and managers at the company’s headquarters as the crisis worsened. More than an hour of the footage was released without sound, including a portion that shows Naoto Kan, the prime minister during the episode, visiting the company’s crisis center.

According to a shot list posted on Tepco’s Web site, the footage shows:

:00 – :20
Sample of teleconference at headquarters (with sound)

:20 – :35
Sample of teleconference at Fukushima Daini nuclear power station (no sound)

:35 – 2:40
March 12, 3:36 p.m. Hydrogen explosion at Unit 1 Reactor Building (no sound)

2:40 – 5:50
March 12, 7:23 p.m. Seawater injection at Unit 1 (no sound)

5:50 – 10:31
March 14, 11:01 a.m. Hydrogen explosion at Unit 3 Reactor Building (with sound)

10:31 – 22:33
March 14, 4:12 p.m. Pressure reduction utilizing SR valve at Unit 2 (with sound)

22:33 – 24:36
March 14, 7:28 p.m. Withdrawal (1/3) Managing Director, Komori (with sound)

24:36 – 25:11
March 14, 7:54 p.m. Withdrawal (2/3) Fellow, Mr. Takahashi (with sound)

25:11 – 29:48
March 14, 8:15 p.m. Withdrawal (3/3) President, Shimizu and Fellow, Mr. Takahashi (with sound)

29:48 – 1:06:53
March 15, 5:36 a.m. Former Prime Minister Kan visiting Tepco (no sound)

1:06:53 – 1:28:58
March 15, 6:14 a.m. Impulsive sound and shake at Fukushima Daiichi NPS (no sound)

Among other things, the video shows that Tepco managers knew hours after the crisis began that multiple meltdowns were likely, even though they tried to convince the public that such a catastrophic nuclear accident was not probable.

Responding to pressure to be more transparent about the efforts to contain the damage at the plant, Tepco now regularly posts photographs and video clips on the work there on a section of its Web site documenting the work at Fukushima.

This week, in addition to the teleconference video, the company posted a series of photographs online, shot inside the ruined building around Reactor No. 1 on Wednesday, after engineers released a balloon equipped with a camera into the badly damaged structure.

A balloon equipped with a camera, which was used to investigate the damaged interior of a reactor building at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant on Wednesday.

Tokyo Electric Power CompanyEngineers used a balloon equipped with a camera to photograph the interior of the ruined building around Reactor No. 1 at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station on Wednesday.

Last month, Tepco also posted a brief video clip recorded at Fukushima’s Reactor No. 3 building on July 11.

Video showing what remains of the northwest part of the third reactor building’s operating floor at the Fukushima Daaichi nuclear plant.

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