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November 18, 2010 - "Roles for Third Parties in Improving Implementation of EPA's and OSHA's Regulations on the Management of Low-Probability, High-Consequence Process Safety Risks" - Penn Program on Regulation, in conjunction with the Wharton Risk Management Center, hosted a conference regarding the usage of third party auditors in the enforcement of regulatory safety measures in high risk industries. Industries which experts call "Low-Probability, High-Consequence," such as nuclear reactors, oil refineries, or chemical processing plants, are specifically hoped to be improved by third party inspections safety. The conference brought together numerous participants from a variety of fields, including from government, industry, insurance, academia, and non-profit sectors. The conference consisted of a day-long discussion spread over three separate panels. Over the course of the conference, participants stressed the importance of implementing a third party system to effectively and thoroughly audit industry despite lack of adequate funds and resources. Other potential scenarios offered for enacting effective third party auditing included making sure that these third party auditors were completely independent from the industries they would be inspecting so as to eliminate bias or a conflict of interest. Another issue to consider is the question of whose authority would the third party auditors be under and what kind of enforcement power would they have to enforce industry change. One of the panel discussions brought up the potential linkage of third party audits with insurance companies so as to provide an incentive for industry to decrease safety risks in order to pay lower insurance premiums. Workshop participants included Isadore "Irv" Rosenthal, a Senior Research Fellow at the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Howard Kunreuther, James G. Dinan Professor of Business and Public Policy at Wharton and Co-Director of the Wharton Risk Center; Laurie Miller, Senior Director of Environment and Process Safety at the American Chemistry Council; Erwann O. Michel-Kerjan, Managing Director of the Wharton Risk Management and Decision Processes Center; Scott Berger, Executive Director of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers; Don Nguyen, a Principal Process Safety Management Engineer at Siemens Energy, Inc.; Mike Marshall, Process Safety Management Coordinator at the Directorate of Enforcement Programs at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) within the United States Department of Labor; Cary Coglianese, Edward B. Shils Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Director of the Penn Program on Regulation; Bob Whitmore, Former Chief of OSHA Division of Recordkeeping at the United States Department of Labor; Jim Belke, Chemical Engineer at the Office of Emergency Prevention and Member of the Office of Chemical Preparedness within the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA); William Doerr, FM Global Research Area Director; Manuel Gomez, Director of Recommendations at the U.S. Chemical Safety Board; Tim Cillessen, Manager of Sales and Marketing at Siemens Energy, Inc.; Mike Wright, Director of Health, Safety, and Environment at United Steelworkers; Jennifer Nash, Affiliated Researcher of Nanotechnology and Society Research Group at Northeastern University and the Associate Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Executive Director of Regulatory Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School of Government; Michael Perron, Senior Vice President of Willis Re New York.
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) underscore the need to address broad inequalities in their quest to ‘leave no-one behind.’ Income Inequality Trends in sub-Saharan Africa: Divergence, Determinants, and Consequences is a groundbreaking UNDP study that provides policy guidance to reduce income inequality in sub-Saharan Africa. UNDP Regional Director for Africa, President of Burkina Faso, President of Guinea and AU Chairperson, Prime Minister of Mauritius. Photo: UNDP
With a name like Truth or Consequences, I had to visit. From what I could see, it was just another older western town strung along the interstate. It had renamed itself after a radio show, so that the radio show would broadcast from there once every year.
From "T or C" my plan was to get to Alamogordo and see the White Sands area. This required going south on I-25 through a number of small towns to Las Cruces (which turned out to be much less interesting than I expected), and then east on US-70 across the White Sands Missile Range (next picture).
Best viewed as part of New Mexico set.
Scan Article from the Herald of Truth or Consequences . Truth or Consequences ( T or C ) is the county seat of Sierra County NM .
Title: "Indian Bear Dance"
Artist: Boris Deutsch
Year: 1940
It is an oil on canvas located in the working downtown Truth or Consequences post office.
Built in 1939, this post office was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
"He should have been careful. It's dangerous to be an honest man."
- Michael Corleone
© Shafaq Saleem | Photograph
February 14, 2012 (6:33:40 PM)
50@36 Day 21: While getting ready for a family walk to Chiplote for dinner, Maddy was sure to grab her camera. Our conversation went something like this:
Her: "Daddy, I need to take pictures!"
Me: "Why?"
Her: "To send to the people!"
Me: "What people?"
Her: "All the people, so they can see where we went!"
Me: "Oh, um, OK. Well, I'm sure it's nothing a little counseling won't fix."
I'm not sure if I've ever talked about posting photos "for the people" but she is definitely in the habit of photodocumenting things and wants to show them off. And I'm not sure how I feel about it. I can't remember a time when I didn't feel the same way. My parents 8mm movie camera was reserved exclusively for special events, and I aways felt that it was a shame, costs of processing aside. When I was 12 or 13 my folks said they'd match whatever I could put towards a video camera. I was able to come up with the money within a week.
A previous hobby of mine was recording, sharing online and archiving live music; part of my borderline OCD need to document and preserve things important to me. Things which might otherwise have disappeared into the ether. Sharing the live music online with a wider circle of friends was just a happy consequence (and the driving force behind my involvement with etree.org). It was around that time when I realized that posting stuff online for the enjoyment of others could never be my primary reason, if I were to stay sane. I must to record (and now shoot) for myself, first. Unless I'm getting paid, what's the point of shooting stuff I don't care about or otherwise find interesting? It might be an obvious distinction, but a conclusion that took me a while to come to.
Western Avenue - Albany, NY
Camera: Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Lens: EF50mm f/1.4 USM
Exposure: ¹⁄₈₀ sec at f/1.4 ISO 1600
Processing: Adobe Lightroom v3.6
I made this for some friends of mine, as a friend of ours passed away tragically and unexpectedly. It was desperately sad, and whilst I can't be there to give those friends of mine a hug as they live half way across the world from me, this was my way of reaching out to them and remembering Cyntia, who was dear to them especially, but to many others as well. She is, as stitched, always in our hearts. Cyntia absolutely adored her cocker spaniels, hence the subject of this cross stitch, and for those of you who are not mushers (a type of online game - SO fun!), ICA=ICC stands for In Character Actions = In Character Consequences. Cyntia was very fond of that rule, so it summarises her :) Basically it means that if you do something in character, expect to have to deal with the consequences of your actions in character as well. Something I think that applies to life in a very general sense of things as well.
Sometimes when I consider what
tremendous consequences come
from little things,
I am tempted to think there
are no little things.
--Bruce Barton
Correct me if I'm wrong. When I grew up it seems that consequences — cause and effect — not just the immediacy of gain and gratification were ingrained in day-to-day lessons; in experience.
Here's a case-in-point arising out the horrendous floods that have bedevilled SE Australia for months and months. As a child I knew where my milk came from: Molly, the cow. I was surrounded by dairy cows. When the notion of bulk tankers to replace 10 gallon milk cans was mooted it caused an uproar. Sure, those cans when full of precious cow juice were heavy. But they were picked up in a new pink truck owned by the neighbour's brother. This was a small, close-knit community where everyone supported everyone else. A bulk tanker would be easier, more profitable. But not for the man with the pink truck.
We lived on a ridge. That's because, in a loop of a river prone to flooding especially when rain and a king tide coincided, the ridges were that which remained high and dry. Of course, when the river did break out of its banks the pink truck couldn't collect the milk. Nor could a bulk tanker. We hear this flood season of hundreds of thousands of litres of milk running to waste because those bulk tankers are no better at getting through floods than they were way back then. What was different then was that this little, tight community had a flood boat; a flat bottomed jobby that could negotiate the flooded farms and just push up onto a flooded slope to drop off supplies AND backload those full milk cans where a truck could get them to the plant for processing. Could they do that with bulk vats? No! Now we see the consequences of that short-sighted focus on the immediacy of a biased gain for one and a loss for another; a powerless other. Shame. Now everyone loses.
Here's another consequence. Remember that bold, early flowering berry? The consequence of doing that thing — planting, maintaining, nurturing — is here to see. The flowers, pollinated against all odds by our likewise nurtured bees, will soon enough stain my fingers and adorn my table. There it is again— cause and effect — not just the immediacy of gain and gratification; the long game, a vision and a reward. Which would you choose?
The hamstersquid is the result of a inter-university game of consequences.
Ink and digital colour, 2008
Political consequences of the conflict in Ukraine, Ms Marieluise BECK
Germany, ALDE
Rapporteur, AS/Jur
Photo : ©Council of Europe/ Cathérine Monfils
Fish at the Robin 2, Bilston on the Feast of Consequences tour with
Robin Boult (Guitar)
Foss Paterson (Keyboards)
Steve Vantsis (Bass)
Gavin Griffiths (Drums)
Shave Ice: Brandon had strawberry, Lisa had coconut and lime, Fred had pink lemonade and lime. I had coconut and honeydew, which had a much more subtle effect.
Robert of Rochester is drowned while throwing stones at frogs. The other boys fetch his parents. His parents pull him from the river, restored to life by St. Thomas.
Details of the Miracles of St Thomas windows, circa 1215-1220
Stained glass in Canterbury Cathedral.
I just realized we have not published some of the fine graffiti that
has been showing up in TorC. I'm not sure if the artist wants to be
credited so I'm not going to mention who has been doing this.
After CATO, the motor was ejected out of the rear of the rocket, directly into a scale that had been setup below. Nice collectable.
The Consequence of Desire - Marie Antoinette
Art direction and Styling : Crystal Ma
Photographer : Benana Ng
Model: Iryna Zaritskaya
Make up: Dianna Chung
Benana Ng, 香港時尚攝影師及攝錄師。
Fashion/ Beauty Photographer & Videographer based in Hong Kong.
Contact: benana.photography@gmail.com
Benana Photography
"Terrorist" Spc. Gordon Lambert, U.S. Army Garrison Heidelberg Directorate of Emergency Services, points a weapon at LaShei Edmondson, a Pond Security guard, during a anti-terror and consequence management exercise held at the Nachrichten Kaserne Saturday.
Photo by Jason L. Austin, Herald Post staff
Crisis Consequences Live was a charity concert to raise awareness and funds to help combat homelessness. The event was set up by the Crisis Consequences organization and Danny Goffey of Supergrass and his wife Pearl Lowe.
The railway had unexpected consequences..
.
It changed the look of the town. Ormond.
.
House, on the corner of the new road, now.
.
had its garden view dominated by a huge.
.
engine shed, and the price of the house.
.
fell accordingly. It was snapped up by the.
.
enterprising Henry Dorling, who built a.
.
new library and print works next door, with.
.
extra living space. Henry, a widower with a.
.
large family, had married Elizabeth Mayson,.
.
a widow with children of her own, and.
.
they went on to have several more. In the.
.
end there were 21 of them; the two eldest,.
.
Isabella on the Mayson side and young.
.
Henry from the Dorlings, struggled to keep.
.
some kind of order..
.
In the opinion of many, the view down.
.
the High Street was spoilt by the old watch.
.
house. This was a weatherboarded, white.
.
building with a cupola containing a clock.
.
and bell going back to the days of the spa. A.
.
committee was set up to raise subscriptions.
.
to have it rebuilt; William Everest the vestry.
.
clerk was one member but the others were all.
.
new to the town, including Thomas Tompson.
.
the draper, and William Harsant the chemist.
.
Local postmasters, who were appointed.
.
at Epsom from 1769 onwards, were.
.
usually tradesmen who combined the.
.
responsibilities of the job with their.
.
regular business. William Chase Morrish.
.
Andrews, a builder, was made postmaster.
.
in 1843, though in fact the work was.
.
done by his wife, Lucy. She trained her.
.
daughters, Mary and Lucy, in new skills.
.
as telegraphists, and when Mary took.
.
over in 1891 she lobbied for a custom-.
.
built post office in the town. This was.
.
built seven years later in the early Tudor.
.
style with eighteen tills, and up to 90.
.
staff when it was working at full stretch;.
.
they were needed during race weeks.
.
when newspaper correspondents came.
.
rushing in to send news of the winners.
.
to London. The telegraph compartments.
.
had a chute for sending messages down.
.
to the operating room, and the resident.
.
engineer dealt with any problems. Mary.
.
occupied her own office, 'a snug little.
.
place', until her death in 1902.
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The "teens don't need a cell phone until they're driving or moved out" is an interesting idea, and I understand where it's coming from. Kidssurvived for years without cell phones, and they become sort of a social crutch... it's easy to become addicted to texting, which isn't best for the phone bill OR social interaction with peers. I am, however, a firm beliver in the expression "everything in moderation and nothing in excess.I'm not so uptight as to deny my child a cell phone until age sixteen, provided he/she can handle the responsibility (which includes keeping track of it, taking good care of it, and making sure they do not go over their minutes or texts each month). As long as I have that trust in each of my children, there is no need to deny them what has almost become a staple in today's teenage society. If they mess up, then they deal with the consequences: they pay for each text or minute they go over their limit, and Mom and Dad will buy them a new phone once every two years when the contract expires... if they ruin their phone before then, they pay for a new one themselves or they go without.My husband and I do set a 500 text a month limit on our kids' phones as long as we're the ones footing the bill... and believe me, that's not a popular decision among my kids, but they deal. The reason? First of all, money, but second of all, we don't want our kids to have their noses buried in their phones all the time. My daughter's friend sends over 10,000 texts a month. 10,000! That's ridiculous. We just don't want our kids to learn to place too much importence on their phone. Above all, it is just a THING, after all
Title / Titre :
Aftermath of the Halifax Explosion /
Conséquences de l’explosion d’Halifax
Creator(s) / Créateur(s) : Unknown / Inconnu
Date(s) : December 6, 1917 / 6 décembre 1917
Reference No. / Numéro de référence : MIKAN 3193299, 3624170
collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&...
collectionscanada.gc.ca/ourl/res.php?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&...
Location / Lieu : Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada / Halifax, Nouvelle-Écosse, Canada
Credit / Mention de source :
Canada. Library of Parliament. Library and Archives Canada, C-001833 /
Canada. La Bibliothèque du Parlement. Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, C-001833
This is a modest hommage to the courageous people of Fukushima prefecture. They survived a triple disaster in 2011 and are now, nine years later, still fighting with the consequences. I wish them well in their strugle for their beautiful province and thank them for their kindness during this trip.
Fukushima is the third largest prefecture in Japan (14,000 km²), and one of its least densely populated. The prefecture is divided into three main regions: Aizu in the west, Naka dori in the centre and Hama dori in the east. Aizu is mountainous with snowy winters, while the climate in Hama dori is moderated by the Pacific Ocean.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi (About this soundpronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.
The accident was started by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.] On detecting the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their fission reactions. Because of the reactor trips and other grid problems, the electricity supply failed, and the reactors' emergency diesel generators automatically started. Critically, they were powering the pumps that circulated coolant through the reactors' cores to remove decay heat, which continues after fission has ceased. The earthquake generated a 14-meter-high tsunami that swept over the plant's seawall and flooded the plant's lower grounds around the Units 1–4 reactor buildings with sea water, filling the basements and knocking out the emergency generators. The resultant loss-of-coolant accidents led to three nuclear meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions, and the release of radioactive contamination in Units 1, 2 and 3 between 12 and 15 March. The spent fuel pool of previously shut-down Reactor 4 increased in temperature on 15 March due to decay heat from newly added spent fuel rods, but did not boil down sufficiently to expose the fuel.
In the days after the accident, radiation released to the atmosphere forced the government to declare an ever larger evacuation zone around the plant, culminating in an evacuation zone with a 20-kilometer radius. All told, some 154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors.
Large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes were released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster. Michio Aoyama, a professor of radioisotope geoscience at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, has estimated that 18,000 terabecquerel (TBq) of radioactive caesium 137 were released into the Pacific during the accident, and in 2013, 30 gigabecquerel (GBq) of caesium 137 were still flowing into the ocean every day. The plant's operator has since built new walls along the coast and also created a 1.5-kilometer-long "ice wall" of frozen earth to stop the flow of contaminated water.
While there has been ongoing controversy over the health effects of the disaster, a 2014 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and World Health Organization projected no increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies born after the accident. An ongoing intensive cleanup program to both decontaminate affected areas and decommission the plant will take 30 to 40 years, plant management estimate.
On 5 July 2012, the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) found that the causes of the accident had been foreseeable, and that the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had failed to meet basic safety requirements such as risk assessment, preparing for containing collateral damage, and developing evacuation plans. At a meeting in Vienna three months after the disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency faulted lax oversight by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, saying the ministry faced an inherent conflict of interest as the government agency in charge of both regulating and promoting the nuclear power industry. On 12 October 2012, TEPCO admitted for the first time that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants.
Berlin boasts two zoological gardens, a consequence of decades of political and administrative division of the city. The older one, called Zoo Berlin, founded in 1844, is situated in what is now called the "City West". It is the most species-rich zoo worldwide. The other one, called Tierpark Berlin ("Animal Park"), was established on the long abandoned premises of Friedrichsfelde Manor Park in the eastern borough of Lichtenberg, in 1954. Covering 160 ha, it is the largest landcape zoo in Europe.
Rund 15 Prozent der Erdoberfläche werden von Savannen bedeckt. Damit gehören sie zu den größten und wichtigsten Lebensräumen des Planeten. Seit dem 26. Mai 2023 wird Besucher*innen im Tierpark Berlin ein Einblick in diese faszinierende Landschaft gewährt und sie können mehr über die unterschiedlichen Bewohner der ostafrikanischen Savanne und ihren natürlichen Lebensraum erfahren.
Ein wahrer Höhepunkt der neuen Tierpark-Savanne ist der 120 Meter lange Giraffenpfad: Hier werden die Gäste den bis zu fünf Meter hohen Grazien der Savanne zukünftig auf Augenhöhe begegnen können – wer sich traut, bahnt sich den Weg durch den Wald bis zu den Aussichtsplattformen über eine abenteuerliche Hängebrücke. Der Tierpark Berlin erreicht mit der Eröffnung der Afrikanischen Savannenlandschaft ein neues Etappenziel auf seinem Weg zu einem Zoo der Zukunft. Seit knapp neun Jahren wird der 1955 gegründete und 160 Hektar große Tierpark Berlin zu einem naturnahen Geozoo umgebaut. Um einen Einblick in den Lebensraum der einzelnen Tierarten und deren Interaktionen, Besonderheiten und Problematiken zu ermöglichen, werden die Tiere im Tierpark größtenteils nach geografischen Gesichtspunkten zu sehen sein.
www.tierpark-berlin.de/de/aktuelles/alle-news/artikel/wil...
Around 15 per cent of the earth's surface is covered by savannahs. This makes them one of the largest and most important habitats on the planet. Since 26 May 2023, visitors to Tierpark Berlin have been given an insight into this fascinating landscape and can learn more about the different inhabitants of the East African savannah and their natural habitat.
A true highlight of the new zoo savannah is the 120-metre-long giraffe trail: here, guests will be able to meet the up to five-metre-high graces of the savannah at eye level in future - those who dare will make their way through the forest to the viewing platforms via an adventurous suspension bridge. With the opening of the African Savannah Landscape, Tierpark Berlin has reached a new milestone on its way to becoming a zoo of the future. For almost nine years, the 160-hectare Tierpark Berlin, which was founded in 1955, has been transformed into a near-natural geozoo. In order to provide an insight into the habitat of the individual animal species and their interactions, peculiarities and problems, the animals in the zoo will largely be seen according to geographical aspects. www.tierpark-berlin.
This is a modest hommage to the courageous people of Fukushima prefecture. They survived a triple disaster in 2011 and are now, nine years later, still fighting with the consequences. I wish them well in their strugle for their beautiful province and thank them for their kindness during this trip.
Fukushima is the third largest prefecture in Japan (14,000 km²), and one of its least densely populated. The prefecture is divided into three main regions: Aizu in the west, Naka dori in the centre and Hama dori in the east. Aizu is mountainous with snowy winters, while the climate in Hama dori is moderated by the Pacific Ocean.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (福島第一原子力発電所事故 Fukushima Dai-ichi (About this soundpronunciation) genshiryoku hatsudensho jiko) was a nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Ōkuma, Fukushima Prefecture. The disaster was the most severe nuclear accident since the 26 April 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the only other disaster to be given the Level 7 event classification of the International Nuclear Event Scale.
The accident was started by the Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011.] On detecting the earthquake, the active reactors automatically shut down their fission reactions. Because of the reactor trips and other grid problems, the electricity supply failed, and the reactors' emergency diesel generators automatically started. Critically, they were powering the pumps that circulated coolant through the reactors' cores to remove decay heat, which continues after fission has ceased. The earthquake generated a 14-meter-high tsunami that swept over the plant's seawall and flooded the plant's lower grounds around the Units 1–4 reactor buildings with sea water, filling the basements and knocking out the emergency generators. The resultant loss-of-coolant accidents led to three nuclear meltdowns, three hydrogen explosions, and the release of radioactive contamination in Units 1, 2 and 3 between 12 and 15 March. The spent fuel pool of previously shut-down Reactor 4 increased in temperature on 15 March due to decay heat from newly added spent fuel rods, but did not boil down sufficiently to expose the fuel.
In the days after the accident, radiation released to the atmosphere forced the government to declare an ever larger evacuation zone around the plant, culminating in an evacuation zone with a 20-kilometer radius. All told, some 154,000 residents evacuated from the communities surrounding the plant due to the rising off-site levels of ambient ionizing radiation caused by airborne radioactive contamination from the damaged reactors.
Large amounts of water contaminated with radioactive isotopes were released into the Pacific Ocean during and after the disaster. Michio Aoyama, a professor of radioisotope geoscience at the Institute of Environmental Radioactivity, has estimated that 18,000 terabecquerel (TBq) of radioactive caesium 137 were released into the Pacific during the accident, and in 2013, 30 gigabecquerel (GBq) of caesium 137 were still flowing into the ocean every day. The plant's operator has since built new walls along the coast and also created a 1.5-kilometer-long "ice wall" of frozen earth to stop the flow of contaminated water.
While there has been ongoing controversy over the health effects of the disaster, a 2014 report by the United Nations Scientific Committee on the Effects of Atomic Radiation (UNSCEAR) and World Health Organization projected no increase in miscarriages, stillbirths or physical and mental disorders in babies born after the accident. An ongoing intensive cleanup program to both decontaminate affected areas and decommission the plant will take 30 to 40 years, plant management estimate.
On 5 July 2012, the National Diet of Japan Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission (NAIIC) found that the causes of the accident had been foreseeable, and that the plant operator, Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), had failed to meet basic safety requirements such as risk assessment, preparing for containing collateral damage, and developing evacuation plans. At a meeting in Vienna three months after the disaster, the International Atomic Energy Agency faulted lax oversight by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, saying the ministry faced an inherent conflict of interest as the government agency in charge of both regulating and promoting the nuclear power industry. On 12 October 2012, TEPCO admitted for the first time that it had failed to take necessary measures for fear of inviting lawsuits or protests against its nuclear plants.
It has been 1,067 days since Russia invaded Ukraine – the war continues – normality does not settle in – yet life goes on amidst the war, its consequences, and its losses.