Fukushima cleanup
Noda
comments on tsunami – CNN perspective
Translation:
Prime minister
Japan acknowledges failing government after tsunami
Prime minister
Yoshihiko Noda admits that the Japanese government has failed in her reaction
to the earthquake and tsunami in March 2011. Important information was
communicated too late and the ‘safety myth’ of nuclear energy was believed too
long. “We can no longer use the excuse that what has happened was unpredictable
and more than we could imagine”, Noda said on Saturday to journalists. “Crisis
management demands that we imagine what might be unimaginable.” ‘Soteigai’ or
‘beyond our imagination’ was the term used often by the electrical company
Tepco to explain why it wasn’t prepared for the tsunami that followed the heavy
earthquake of 11 March. Noda said that Japan has learned important lessons to
be better prepared for tsunami and power outages. Due to the power outages
after the tsunami several reactors in Fukushima became overheated, creating the
worst nuclear disaster since Tsjernobyl.
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