TEPCO Vice President Masao Yamazaki, who headed its probe of the disaster, acknowledged that the company had repeatedly underestimated the risk of a tsunami, despite predictions in recent years that such earthquake-generated waves could jump over seawalls protecting reactors. Officials clung to optimistic views instead of taking the side of safety, he said.A previous report had addressed this issue stating that given the plants proximity to the ocean and that it was just above sea level a major tsunami would over whelm the facility. Cutting off the power supply. Which happened along with destruction of the backup power supply.
“We must admit that our tsunami anticipation was too optimistic, and our insufficient preparations for a tsunami were the fundamental cause of the accident,” Yamazaki told a news conference."
In the report, TEPCO also denied it had ever considered abandoning the crippled Fukushima plant, blaming poor communication with the government for the claim. It said contact with the office of then prime minister Naoto Kan had been insufficient.
This lack of communication may have led him to think the firm intended to leave the radiation-spewing reactors to their fate, it said.
Past governments controlled by the LDP (Liberal Democratic party) were completely and utterly in bed with Japan's nuclear industry. Through their interactions and the willingness to put profit before safety the Japanese public had no idea that none of the safety measures put in-place by the government were completely inadequate
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