Fukushima Operator 'Knew of Need to Protect Against Tsunami But Did Not Act'

Part of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was hit by a tsunami 4 years ago leading to the world's worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl 25 years earlier.  Photo:  Shizuo Kambayashi/AP

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Fukushima operator 'knew of need to protect against tsunami but did not act'
by Justin McCurry in Nagasaki, The Guardian, 18 June 2015

Revelation casts doubt on Tepco’s claim that it had taken every possible action to protect the plant which suffered meltdown in 2011 disaster

The operator of Japan’s ruined Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was aware of the need to improve the facility’s defences against tsunami more than two years before the March 2011 disaster but failed to take action, according to an internal company document.

The revelation casts doubt on claims by Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) that it had done everything possible to protect the plant, which suffered a triple meltdown after being struck by a towering tsunami.
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