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This came out right after #FukushimaNuclearAccident.
Is Tokyo Electric Power becoming #Japan's BP?
16 March 2011
"[It] has to be said that #Tepco has a chequered history in divulging information about its #nuclear operations.
"In 2002, the Japanese government accused Tepco of false reporting in routine inspections of nuclear facilities and of concealing information about safety lapses over many years.
"The company had to close all its boiling water nuclear reactors - the sort caught up in the current crisis - until further inspections had taken place.
"Tepco eventually admitted to 200 occasions in which information had been falsified between 1977 and 2002. Further revelations of past concealment emerged five years later.
"As the company struggles to contain a crisis seen on a par with the Three Mile Island reactor meltdown in the US in 1979, it is easy to see why some Japan observers suspect Tepco is less than enthusiastic about revealing the full extent of what it knows.
"A Tepco spokesman said on Wednesday that 20 government officials had moved into the company's Tokyo offices.
"#BP suffered a huge loss to its prestige, lost its chief executive and put $40.9bn set aside for charges relating to the giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
"What will be the outcome for Tepco?"
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-12764458
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