TEPCO Did Not Adopt a Key Lesson Learned from the Accident at Three Mile Island

TEPCO Did Not Adopt a Key Lesson Learned from the Accident at Three Mile Island

from This Week in Nuclear by John Wheeler

Unlike their American counterparts, not all control room operators in Japan have access to plant specific training simulators.  Instead, according to a report by NPR, they use “generic” simulators that are similar to, but not identical to their plant.  This difference may have contributed to the difficulties operators had at Fukushima Dai-ichi when responding to complex events that followed the catastrophic earthquake and tsunami on March 11, 2011.