TEPCO Failed To Properly Train Control Room Staff

TEPCO Failed To Properly Train Control Room Staff

from The Energy Collective - The world's best thinkers on energy & climate by JohnWheeler

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.