International Law

Hard to believe

By Karl-Friedrich Lenz

but for the first couple of days, the shutdown operation at the Fukushima plant was a show run by the operator TEPCO alone. The Japanese Government didn’t step in until March 15th. See this Wall Street Journal article.

As a consequence, the Tokyo firefighter vehicles were on site only a week later. They had been to Fukushima already and were not used immediately because TEPCO personnel lacked the qualifications to operate them.

It is amazing that no large-scale explosion has happened yet with a 9.0 earthquake, a record tsunami, and a half-hearted shutdown effort in the first days.

Full post as published by Lenz Blog on March 22, 2011 (boomark / email).