TEPCO's One Page Disaster Plan

With each passing day the arrogance and complete incompetence of TEPCO is revealed to the public. The Associated Press has obtained a memo under Japan's Public Records Law which shows Tokyo Electric paid little attention to the structural safety of its Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant why else would there be single page disaster plan gathering dust since 2001 having never been updated.

In the Dec. 19, 2001, document — one double-sized page obtained by The Associated Press under the public records law — Tepco rules out the possibility of a tsunami large enough to knock the plant offline

TEPCCO simply stuck its corporate head in the sand believing that Fukushima was impervious to such a disaster

"This is all we saw," said Masaru Kobayashi, who now heads NISA's quake-safety section. "We did not look into the validity of the content."

The memo has Japanese text, boxes and numbers. It also has a tiny map of Japan indicating where historical earthquakes are believed to have struck. Tepco considered five quakes, ranging from 8.0 to 8.6 magnitude, in the northeast, and 9.5 magnitude across the Pacific near Chile, as examples of possible tsunami-causing temblors.

Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency which over sees Japan's nuclear industry has no statutory power to enforce regulations or to force power plants to come into compliance when safety regulations are changed or updated.