{"id":3981,"date":"2013-06-11T08:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T12:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/?p=3981"},"modified":"2013-06-11T05:16:46","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T09:16:46","slug":"korean-nuke-supplier-for-plant-vogtle-forged-documentation-for-a-host-of-nuclear-reactors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.l-a-k-e.org\/blog\/2013\/06\/korean-nuke-supplier-for-plant-vogtle-forged-documentation-for-a-host-of-nuclear-reactors.html","title":{"rendered":"Korean nuke supplier for Plant Vogtle forged documentation for “a host of nuclear reactors”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\r\nKorea’s Doosan supplied that \r\nthat train-wrecked<\/a> Plant Vogtle reactor vessel later\r\n\r\nleft unprotected sitting at Savannah port<\/a>,\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nas well as parts for more than a dozen U.S. reactors.\r\nAnd Doosan, according to the Korean government,\r\nforged documentation that just shut down “a host of nuclear reactors”\r\nin Korea, whose Prime Minister said,\r\n

\r\n“Those found to be involved in wrongdoing or corruption must be\r\nsternly punished by the law, regardless of their rank and status.”\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAccording to World Nuclear News 5 June 2008,\r\n\r\nDoosan awarded further contract by Westinghouse<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\nAt the end of May, the AP1000 consortium of Shaw and Westinghouse\r\nsigned an engineering, procurement and construction contract (EPC)\r\nfor two 1117 MWe AP1000 reactors at the existing VC Summer nuclear\r\npower plant site in South Carolina, USA. South Carolina Electric and\r\nGas (SCE&G), the main subsidiary of Scana Corp, executed the EPC\r\ncontract on behalf of itself and its partner Santee Cooper, a South\r\nCarolina state-owned utility. The first unit could enter commercial\r\noperation by 2016, and the second in 2019.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nThe new contract for Doosan, worth some $195 million, closely\r\nfollows an earlier contract from Westinghouse to supply major\r\nequipment, such as steam generators and reactor vessels, for two\r\nAP1000s units to be constructed at Georgia Power’s Vogtle nuclear\r\npower station near Augusta, Georgia. Subject to approvals, the two\r\nunits are slated to enter service alongside Vogtle’s two existing\r\nreactors in 2016 and 2017.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nLast month, back in Korea, AFP reported 31 May 2013,\r\n\r\nS Korean PM vows tough penalties over reactor scam<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\nSouth Korean Prime Minister Chung Hong-Won vowed Friday to mete out\r\nsevere penalties to anyone involved in a forged documentation\r\nscandal that has shut down a host of nuclear reactors.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“It is a grave crime that angers both heaven and human beings,”\r\nChung told officials at a government policy coordination meeting.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nSouth Korea shut down two reactors Tuesday and delayed the scheduled\r\nstart of operations at two more, prompting government warnings of\r\n“unprecedented” power shortages.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe move, part of a widening investigation into a scandal involving\r\nparts provided with fake safety certificates, means 10 of the\r\nSouth’s 23 nuclear reactors are currently offline for various\r\nreasons.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“Those found to be involved in wrongdoing or corruption must be\r\nsternly punished by the law, regardless of their rank and status,”\r\nChung said.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nHow far do the effects of this corruption extend?\r\nLook at Doosan’s map of worldwide experiences, including\r\nin the U.S. Summer 2,3, Duke Energy’s Levy County 1,2 (not built yet),\r\nEntergy’s\r\n\r\nWaterford 3<\/a> (remember the dark Super Bowl?,\r\nTVA’s\r\n\r\nSequoyah 1,2<\/a> and\r\n\r\nWatts Bar 1<\/a>\r\n(all\r\nwithin 500 miles of here<\/a>) plus\r\nEntergy’s \r\nIndian Point 2,3<\/a> near New York City and\r\nArizona Public Service’s\r\n\r\nPalo Verde 1,2,3<\/a> near Phoenix, Arizona.\r\nWith Vogtle 2 and 3, that’s fifteen reactors in the U.S.\r\nsupplied by document-forging Doosan.\r\n<\/p>\r\n\r\n\"Doosan<\/a>\r\n

\r\nHow bad is this Doosan documentation fraud, and what’s in those boxes\r\ninvestigators for prosecutors are shown here\r\nseizing from the offices of JS Cable, which supplied faulty cables\r\nto nuclear power plants (picture by Yonhap News)?\r\nLee Seung-jun wrote for the hankyoreh 3 June 2013,\r\n\r\nSouth Korea\u2019s nuclear power mafia controls the whole business:\r\nRecent safety violations being traced to an industry culture that lacks independent oversight and doesn\u2019t enforce regulations<\/a>,\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nNuclear power policy and management in South Korea: a game where the\r\nplayers are their own referees?\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nCritics are saying the accidents and irregularities discovered over\r\nthe past two years at nuclear plants are just the tip of the iceberg\r\nfor a system that has gone on for more than 50 years, where a\r\nso-called “nuclear power mafia” holds public safety and\r\npower supply in its hands.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe biggest issue is a scandal that surfaced on May 28, in which\r\nplants were found to have been supplied with defective control\r\ncables after testing results were falsified, may not be the last.\r\nEven the Nuclear Safety and Security Commission (NSCC) acknowledged\r\nthat similar scandals “could emerge” in the future.\r\nKorea Hydro and Nuclear Power (KHNP) bidding information that was\r\nexamined on June 2 showed that JS Cable, which supplied the faulty\r\ncables, also provided a number of Level Q “safe cables”\r\nto power plants such as Hanbit (in South Jeolla’s Yeonggwang) and\r\nBusan’s Kori between 2011 and 2013. Saehan TEP, the company\r\nimplicated in the falsified documents, has routinely handled quality\r\ninspections, earning a 2012 award from the Ministry of Education,\r\nScience and Technology for being an “outstanding\r\nbusiness.” Data from a parliamentary audit last year showed\r\nthat four businesses barred from bidding because of involvement in\r\nimproprieties between 2008 and 2012 had earned presidential\r\ncommendations or been selected as “outstanding nuclear power\r\nbusinesses for shared growth and cooperation.” KHNP has\r\nroughly one thousand companies making three million nuclear power\r\nplant parts, with seven testing institutes doing the safety\r\ninspections. But now it is uncertain just how safe they actually\r\nare.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nAccording to critics, the root of the problem is a pervasive\r\n“back scratching” culture that has persisted for over\r\nhalf a century since an atomic energy division first appeared in\r\n1956 in the technology education bureau of what was then the\r\nMinistry of Education.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n“There has never been any accountability or punishment\r\nwhenever a problem has occurred,” said Jang Jeong-wook, an\r\neconomics professor at Japan’s Matsuyama University and frequent\r\ncritic of the incestuous relationships among South Korean nuclear\r\npower businesses.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\nIs that article describing Korea or the U.S., where the NRC\r\n\r\nfailed to find a reactor vessel flaw for a year<\/a> at Harris in North Carolina,\r\nand has never closed an operating nuclear plant?\r\nSan Onofre 2 and 3 are closing because of\r\n\r\nSoCal Edison’s decision<\/a> after widespread protests,\r\nnot because of the NRC, which never did do its job.\r\n\r\nSouthern Company just won a bunch of awards, too<\/a>, as\r\nSO CEO Thomas A. Fanning bragged in May’s stockholder meeting.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nSouthern Company or Georgia Power could argue they didn’t know Doosan had problems.\r\nBut wait, Jong-Heon Lee wrote for UP 10 November 2005,\r\n\r\nAnalysis: S. Korea’s Doosan in crisis<\/a>,\r\n

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\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nOn Thursday, the prosecution said Park Yong-sung, former chairman of\r\nDoosan Group, and three of his brothers embezzled 32.6 billion won\r\n($31.2 million) in company funds over the past 10 years.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe brothers were also accused of involvement in accounting fraud\r\nthat inflated company sales by about 283 billion won ($271 million),\r\nthe Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office said in a statement.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nProsecutors also indicted 14 former and current executives of Doosan\r\nGroup on embezzlement and other charges, the result of their\r\ntwo-month investigation into the conglomerate’s alleged slush funds.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe brothers used the slush funds for living expenses, repayment of\r\ninterest on bank debts and donations to Buddhist temples,\r\nprosecutors said. The three indicted brothers include former Doosan\r\nChairman Park Yong-oh former vice chairman Park Yong-maan, and Park\r\nYong-wook, chairman of Doosan’s kitchen appliance subsidiary Esaeng\r\nGroup.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThey are suspected of having embezzled 28.6 billion won ($27.4\r\nmillion) from Doosan Industrial Development Co., a construction\r\nsubsidiary of the conglomerate, and a secret subsidiary called\r\nDonghyun Engineering, from 1995 until recently, according to the\r\nprosecution.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThe brothers are also charged with misappropriating 3.98 billion won\r\n($3.81 million) from his business group’s furniture-making affiliate\r\nNefs Co. from 1998 through the end of last year.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nBut prosecutors said they would not detain Park Yong-sung and his\r\nbrothers, considering his global high-profile status as an\r\ninternational sports leader.\r\n<\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n

\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\nBeing on the International Olympic Committee and president of the\r\nInternational Judo Federation was apparently more important\r\nthan corporate ethics.\r\nDid that too-sporty-to-fail approach work, what with Doosan\r\nagain mired in a corruption scandal?\r\n\r\nHere’s Park Yong-Song celebrating Korea winning the 2018 Olympics<\/a>,\r\n5 July 2011 (picture by Jasper Juinen\/Getty Images Europe).\r\nBut what have we won from Doosan in Georgia and South Carolina?\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nThis time will anyone\r\n“be sternly punished by the law, regardless of their rank and status”\r\nin Korea, or in Georgia or South Carolina?\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\n\r\nHow about we start with\r\n\r\ncapping cost overruns at Plant Vogtle<\/a>\r\nso Southern Company has to eat them\r\n\r\nlike it did for Kemper Coal<\/a>, the plant a Mississippi PSC member\r\n\r\n<\/a>\r\ncalled\r\n\r\n“the greatest transfer of wealth from customers to a monopoly”<\/a>\r\n(guess he didn’t consider Plant Vogtle).\r\nHow about we\r\n\r\ncancel the $8.33 billion federal loan guarantee<\/a> while we’re at it?\r\nLet’s continue with\r\n\r\nmodifying the antique 1973 Territorial Electric Service Act<\/a>\r\nso we can finance and sell solar power on an open market in Georgia.\r\nIt’s time to stop\r\n\r\nthe nuclear boondoggle<\/a>\r\nso we can get on with real renewable solar and wind power.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

\r\nOwed to Haley Hyatt.\r\n<\/p>\r\n

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