TEPCO aims for July restart of nuclear plant in Niigata

Do we trust TEPCO? Well then. There's the answer.

A company known for its scandals, backroom deals, cover-ups, lies, and complete ineptitude... known for not living up to its compensation commitments, receiving massive bailout money while seeking to be 'back in the black', and trying to find a way to 'restructure' to avoid being broken up by the government wants to restart an old reactor which they've already tried to cover up spills and built knowingly on a major fault line?

Evidently we never learn.

Evidently corruption is a cultural trait that should be designated as such by UNESCO.

I would be okay with this if someone else was running it BESIDES tepco.

TEPCO what a amazing lesson in corruption and nepotism, it needs to live in order to expose just how vile a corporation can become. Most Governments would have steped in. But not here! These buckets of vomit actually get extra money and time to exasapate their mistake and cry poor while trying to make a profit. Guess the homeless caused by their stupidity are just not of concern.

I'm glad to see the nuclear authority and local gov digging in their heels about the restart and requesting more focus on the Fukushima clean up, but the sad thing is, TEPCO has no money to carry out the clean up and their penny-pinching methods are what is causing all of delays and mistakes. They need to start this plant to get some money back into the business and this will be their stance. However, their recent proclamation of wanting to split the company an separate the clean up will mean none of their dividends from the restart will be channeled into the clean up. TEPCO is a bunch of keniving scum bags that are just trying to squirm their way out of responsibility and turn it into profit at the expense of the victims of Fukushima and everyone in the TEPCO power grid monopoly.

If TEPCO are allowed to operate nuclear power plants in this country again, then I think I am done with Japan.

Tepco can announce all they want, but the real problem is buried towards the tail of this article. They do not know how to appease the local people and the local government in Kashiwazaki Kariwa. Yet again they are trying to railroad this thing through, without making any genuine effort on the local level.

Quote: "A TEPCO spokesmen told Reuters that the company had not finalised the plan, adding that a restart date remained uncertain due to ongoing safety assessments and the need for local government backing. Even if TEPCO wins approval from regulators, it faces high hurdles as the local governor, who can block the restart, has said the utility must give a fuller account of the Fukushima disaster before restarting Kashiwazaki."

Good! The nature will thanks this decision with less typhons caused by global warming!

hkitagawa: "Good! The nature will thanks this decision with less typhons caused by global warming!"

Perhaps you can tell us the thanks the areas around the Fukushima plant are expressing? The ocean, the ground, the lakes, etc. They'll be expressing their 'thanks' for thousands of years in some cases.