Tepco, which previously insisted nothing could have protected plant, now says it failed to implement safety improvementsJustin McCurry in Tokyo, guardian.co.uk, Monday 15 October 2012
The company at the centre of Japan's worst nuclear crisis has acknowledged for the first time that it could have avoided the disaster that crippled the Fukushima Daiichi power plant last year.
In a reversal of its insistence that nothing could have protected the plant against the earthquake and tsunami that killed almost 20,000 people on 11 March, Tokyo Electric Power (Tepco) said it had known safety improvements were needed before the disaster, but had failed to implement them.
"When looking back on the accident, the problem was that preparations were not made in advance," Tepco's internal reform taskforce, led by the firm's president, Naomi Hirose, said in a statement on Monday......
Finally the truth comes out ! Tepco gambled with safety requirements with a big risk for the nuclear power plant and Japan as a whole and lost. It is not nice to hear their obvious reasoning why ! Ak Malten, Pro Peaceful Energy Use
Fukushima disaster could have been avoided, nuclear plant operator admits
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