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News & Current Events Apr 2, 2026 at 6:48 AM

Data rigging at central Japan nuclear operator began no later than 2012

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Data rigging at central Japan nuclear operator began no later than 2012
Japan Wire by Kyodo News
Data rigging at central Japan nuclear operator began no later than 2012
The operator of a nuclear power plant in central Japan said Tuesday that its civil engineering department had manipulated quake-resistance data from no later than 2012, with more than 100 cases discovered.
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Icy-Antelope-6519 Apr 2, 2026 +20
it had received multiple whistleblower reports regarding the data manipulation since 2018, but no action had been taken…….🤔
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Lonely-Implement3934 Apr 2, 2026 +33
That’s the part that really kills trust with nuclear operators. If they were willing to rig data for years, people are obviously going to wonder what else got treated as “close enough.”
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Short-Peanut1079 Apr 2, 2026 +8
They human problem for me was always the reason to not cheer on nuclear as some folks do.
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xnmyl Apr 2, 2026 +10
More people have died if radiation from coal power plants than nuclear It's exceptionally safe technology
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phil_the_builder Apr 2, 2026 +7
Exactly my thoughts. Also then potential for destruction and catastrophy are so huge, even a small human oversight can have dire consequences. That is the main reason why nuclear power is regulated to hell and back in most countries, because privat entities can not be trusted not to cut corners to save money. So theres is nothing c**** about nuclear power even if its fans like to point that out.
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kaytin911 Apr 2, 2026
They do what they're told and aren't very bright. If you look at it in practice everywhere running on nuclear has high electricity prices.
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phil_the_builder Apr 2, 2026 +2
Here in Germany the right wingers are adopting the issue by villifying solar and wind energy. They are adamant that closing down our nuclear power stations was a big mistake that hiked the prices. Currently they are discussing the idea of building a large amount of small reactors. Its nuts.
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xnmyl Apr 2, 2026 +6
Closing nuclear plants objectively did increase prices. It's basic supply and demand
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phil_the_builder Apr 2, 2026 +1
Apparently there was no noticable effect on prices in Germany. The last three nuclear power plants accounted for 30 Terrawatthours while the european marked for electrical power has a capacity of over 3300 terrawatthours, so the closure had no effect on prices. Currently Germany runs pretty much on renewables and if demand is too big power is imported because it is cheaper than to ramp up domestic gas and coal power.
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ABoutDeSouffle Apr 2, 2026 +1
I mean, closing down our perfectly fine NPPs was a very dumb idea. Now our CO2 footprint is unnecessarily high, and we buy nuclear power from France. Our demand is so high we are driving up prices in Norway, and still have among the highest prices in Europe. Since we also don't have enough transmission capability within to transport all the power from the North to the South, we can not even get rid of fossil fuels, and instead have to build new power plants. Some of our NPPs were located in the South. You don't have to be right-wing to see that we dropped the ball on the "Energiewende" stuff. And thanks to our sprawling bureaucracy, we aren't able to build out renewables like we needed to.
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phil_the_builder Apr 2, 2026 +1
Since getting rid of nucelar power CO2 emission within the energy sector decreased more than 20% due to increased use of renewable energy. The end on nuclear power happend after the accident in Fukushima, and it was supported by the public at the time. I agree that trasmission capabilities and the expansion of renewables is slow and hindered by bureaucracy, but Germany is a densly populated country, you have to try to make compromises along the way, so everything takes longer. I would not call it ball dropped, I would call it ball fumbled. Maybe we should not have chased away the green party or let the liberals implode our last government. But be as it may, new nuclear power plants big or small are not the solution.
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ABoutDeSouffle Apr 2, 2026 +1
> Since getting rid of nucelar power CO2 production within the energy sector decreased more than 20% due to increased use of renewable energy. Yes, and IIRC nuclear once in the not so distant past was around 15-20%, so we could be at 75% - 90% low-carbon at times, and maybe even enjoy carbon-free days with considerably lower electricity prices if we had prioritized the exit from fossils over the exit from fission. I know that in the end Merkel pulled the plug and that this was a very popular move. But essentially, the eco movement and the Green party created the ground for it in the decade before, and scored one of the biggest own goals here. And they still think it was the right thing at the time, which is painful to read because already in the 1980's, climate change was discussed as the single biggest ecological problem. I still vote for them, but only for lack of a true alternative. If we ever get close to nuclear fusion, I bet they will start yet another scare campaign.
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phil_the_builder Apr 2, 2026 +1
In the end, in my personal opinion, and just my personal opinion, the risks inherent in nuclear power are just too great. With a timeline long enough the risk for a catastophic accident will rise to 100%. The question of how to store radioactive waste is still not solved and not just here, but almost no country has a real answer for that. The official oversight and regulation is imens and expensive, the power is subsidiesed in a way and most of the risks are on society, not Eon or Vattenfall. So in my opinion nuclear power is simply not worth the risk.
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xnmyl Apr 2, 2026 +2
I have nuclear power. My energy prices are some of the cheapest in the US
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