Nuclear Power Plant updates further to the Aomori coastal earthquake

Tohoku Electric Power Company are currently checking Higashidori Nuclear Power Station in Aomori Prefecture and the Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant in Miyagi Prefecture for any damage from the December 8th earthquake of the coast of Aomori Prefecture. Their initial report is that there "are no irregularities". The Hokkaido Electric Power Company are also reporting no irregularities at the Tomari Nuclear Power plant. In addition, Tokyo Electric Power Company, TEPCO, are also saying that they have found no irregularities at the Fukushima Daiichi and Daini power plants. But they also said that about Japan's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station immediately after the Tohoku earthquake in March 2011, and it was a lie.

I will never forget that deception. Not only did they say it was fine that day, for the next two days they kept up the lie. On the third day they finally admitted that there was a problem, but it wasn't until May 2025, more than two months after the disaster that they finally acknowledged that they more than just problems and actual meltdowns that had occurred in the three reactors. Incredibly it was not until February 2016 (nearly five years after the accident) that TEPCO finally, formally admitted that they deliberately avoided using the term "meltdown". 

I hope that lessons were learned after the 2011 debacle and that Tohoku Electric Power Company are more transparent and honest than TEPCO were. And I also hope that TEPCO have learned their lesson and will not lie this time. Moreover, I hope and pray that there is no damage to the nuclear power plants in Northern Japan and they remain safe.