Even robots can't stand Fukushima radiation for long (video)

Japan's long history as a "safe" country meant that the Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco) was not in the mindset of predicting disasters in a way that may have mitigated the Fukushima Daiichi meltdown, an adviser to Tepco says.

Lake Barrett, who is advising Tepco on the decommissioning of the damaged nuclear plant, says that it was also difficult for the Japanese public to understand afterward what went wrong at Fukushima.

"It's highly technical, and the emotions that go with it are huge," Barrett told CNBC's " Street Signs ."

TEPCO did everything in its power to cover up what happened at Fukushima. From their inability to deal with any sort of crisis. To refusing to listen to outside advice as what could have been done to prevent the meltdown at Fukushima.



The Great East Japan Earthquake unleashed towering tsunami that roared ashore, ravaging 700 kilometers (435 miles) of coastline and killing 15,894 people (a further 2,562 others are still listed as missing). More than 450,000 people were forced from their homes. Many in Japan and abroad remember the aerial video of seawater spilling into coastal communities and inland areas like dark ink across a page, destroying residences, offices, cars and anything else in its path. The surges of water were as high as 39 meters (128 feet) in some places, pushing water as far as 10 kilometers (6.24 miles) inland, flooding more than 560 square kilometers (348 square miles) and creating more than 20 million tons of debris, of which 5 million tons was washed out to sea.

No charges expected over Fukushima disaster-video

No case against prime minister, officials and utility chiefs, Japanese media reports.

Japanese prosecutors are not expected to press charges against any state officials or companies over the handling of the 2011 Fukushima nuclear crisis, national media has said. Sources told the Asahi Shimbun newspaper that despite 15,000 criminal complaints, investigators have found insufficient evidence of responsibility for the 2011 disaster, which developed after a massive earthquake and tsunami, Prosecutors judged that it would be difficult to prove anyone in charge could have predicted a natural disaster of such proportions. They would also have difficulty establishing a link between the nuclear crisis and casualties among evacuees, the newspaper said. They have questioned Naoto Kan, prime minister at the time of the disaster, and investigated others including Masataka Shimizu, the president of Fukushima's operator Tepco.

Here's real reason no one will be charged: First Japan's nuclear industry owns the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). Second: Even though Nato Kan is now member of the opposition he was once a member of the LDP. Third because the nuclear industry owns the ruling party do you really believe that the public prosecuter is going to indite TEPOC's managememt at that time thus cutting off the LDP's sugerdaddy? I don't think so.

Here's the reality: Japan's elite never suffer the consequnces for their illict actions