BEIJING - eighteen months before Japan's radiation crisis, had U.S. diplomats lambasted the Security Chief of the world's atomic watchdog for incompetence, especially when it comes to the nuclear power industry in his homeland, Japan.
Cable sent by the US Embassy in Vienna, Washington, that WikiLeaks obtained by, from Reuters, singled out Tomihiro Taniguchi up to last year, head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safety checks were.
"The last 10 years the Division suffered Taniguchi has management and leadership skills, enormously because of the (Deputy Director-General) weak" a dispatch said on Dec 1, 2009.
"Taniguchi was a weak Manager and lawyer, in particular in terms of confrontation with Japan's own security practices, and he is a certain disappointment in the United States for his unloved child treatment of the Office of nuclear security," said another, on July 7. wurde2009 sent.
Not comment on the IAEA of the content of the leaked cable.
The evidence of the concern of the national Japanese was encrypted as his country, to fend off a deadly spread of radiation from earthquakes damaged nuclear reactors, North of Tokyo.
Story: U.S. Americans Japan leave helpJapan's crisis brought control of their nuclear authorities and above all, has a history of falsification of data at the sites the operator of the affected reactors.
Separate cable quoted a Japanese legislator as telling visiting US officials in October 2008, that makes companies nuclear security issues and a single ticket on commitments to renewable energy is given by the Government were hidden in Japan.
Taro Kono, a supporter of renewable energy in 2009 offer unsuccessfully for leadership of his Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), also Japan said, had no solution for the storage of nuclear waste and asked whether all installed, waste store it in view of the fact, that Japan was the "land of the volcanoes".
Kono was not immediately to comment available.
The operator of the facility of Fukushima Dai-Ichi, now in the midst of the crisis, the co that Tokyo electric power (TEPCO), had a rocky past in an industry with scandal.
Five TEPCO executives fake a nuclear power plant was in the year 2002 concerning suspected safety records and five reactors were forced to stop operations.
In 2006, the Government of TEPCO ordered data past water temperatures in the Fukushima Dai-Ichi review, after it reported fake coolant in 1985 and 1988 to find and, the mandatory inspections in the plant used the tweaked data, which were completed in October 2005.
Old rules, old reactors
The risk of earthquakes and tsunamis massive earthquake was known even before last Friday, but many of the Japanese nuclear power plants, including the now crippled complex, built Fukushima from the most modern safety standards.
An unnamed IAEA official said the G8 nuclear safety and the security group in December 2008 that guidelines for seismic safety reviewed only three times in the past and had 35 years and that the IAEA was them, review showed a different WikiLeak cable.
", The moderator pointed out recent earthquakes in some cases have the design basis for some nuclear power plants, and that this is now seismic safety work, drive a serious problem, exceeded", the cable said.
IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano said on Wednesday before leaving for Japan, which continuously the safety of nuclear power plants against earthquakes had tried to improve the Agency.
A draft IAEA on safety standards, published in October 2009, recommended, nuclear power plants more than 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the coast sea or the sea, or more than 1 km from one removes Lake or fjord coastline; or at an altitude of more than 50 meters (164 feet) from the mean water level.
"I know all the nuclear power plants in Japan very close to the ocean,", said Daniel Aldrich, author of "fight site", a book such as decisions to build nuclear power plants in Japan and elsewhere on cool were.
"(Dies_ist_aus_zwei_Gruenden:_1) usually cooling pipes in sea water by the reactor unit wear and cool it down, and then dump the warmer water back into the Ocean (these pipes these areas not normally work at this point)(,_and_2) are remoteweit by high population density areas", and they have the least resistance of the civil society, "he said in email comments."
The latest IAEA recommendations are far stricter than the original standards for Japanese plants set. The six reactors in the Dai-Ichi course were given date back from 1971 to 1979, while two other Japanese nuclear reactors in order until 1970.
"An anomalous magnitude 9.0 scale far beyond the accepted security standard power station began as Fukushima Daiichi nuclear forty years ago,", said Yu Shibutani, Director of energy geopolitics Ltd Japan, in an e-Mail to Reuters.
"The tsunami walls, which should be integrated later, or should the generators were situated on higher ground, to withstand possible flooding, but it failed."
"The accident makes shortcomings in risk assessment, as well as in engineering, and not the plant safety standards in Quake and tsunami meet wall."
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