Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Fukushima disaster was preventable


DISASTER MANAGEMENT
Fukushima disaster was preventable

In the peer-reviewed Philosophical Transactions A of the Royal Society, researchers Costas Synolakis of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and Utku Kano?lu of the Middle East Technical University in Turkey distilled thousands of pages of government and industry reports and hundreds of news stories, focusing on the run-up to the disaster. They found that "arrogance and ignorance," design flaws, regulatory failures and improper hazard analyses doomed the costal nuclear power plant even before the tsunami hit.
http://www.terradaily.com/reports/Fukushima_disaster_was_preventable_999.html

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