Depleted Uranium at Mitsui Chemicals Complex in Yamaguchi Prefecture Is Safe, According to Mitsui Chemicals, Nippon TV

Mitsui Chemicals issued the statement on April 22 that had some information about the depleted uranium catalyst stored at its petrochemical complex in Iwakuni City, Yamaguchi Prefecture:

また、工場構内の倉庫で放射性物質を含む廃触媒を関係法令に基づき厳重に保管しておりますが、当該倉庫は発災場所から約５００ｍ離れており、保管容器に異常なく、放射線量測定値は事故前と変化ありません。

Also, we store the spent catalysts that contain radioactive materials in the warehouse inside the plant complex in strict adherence to the related laws and regulations. The warehouse is about 500 meters away from where the accident started. The containers are intact, and the current levels of radiation is the same as before the accident.

Nippon Television News has a bit more details about the containers:

また工場内では放射性物質を含む廃触媒がステンレス製の２重のドラム缶で倉庫に保管されていた。爆発で倉庫のガラスが割れたが周囲の測定で異常はみられなかったという。

The spent catalysts containing radioactive materials were stored in the warehouse in double-walled containers made of stainless steel. Explosions at the complex broke window glass of the warehouse, but there was no unusual measurement in the vicinity of the warehouse.

Depleted uranium was used as catalysts in 1960s and 1970s.

Hardly anyone wants to believe the official (government, the guilty company, mass media) accounts these days, but the official accounts continue to say there has been no leak of toxic chemicals or depleted uranium.

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