TEPCO finally admits catastrophic Fukushima disaster was completely avoidable

TEPCO finally admits catastrophic Fukushima disaster was completely avoidable


(NaturalNews) After repeatedly denying that it could not have done
anything more to preventatively curtail the damage sustained at its
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility following the devastating
earthquake and tsunami that struck on March 11, 2011, the Tokyo Electric Power Company
(TEPCO) has finally come forward with an honest admission that its
now-stricken facility had preexisting structural and safety problems
that the company basically ignored.

TIME.com reports that
TEPCO recently issued a statement explaining that prior to the three
Fukushima meltdowns resulting from the catastrophic damage, company
officials were already well aware of the fact that the facility was in
dire need of serious renovations and retrofit. But because of various
political, economic, and legal concerns, TEPCO deliberately delayed
addressing these important issues, which is now coming back to haunt the
company.

"Looking back on the accident, the problem was that
preparations were not made in advance," said a TEPCO investigatory task
force, led by the company's president, Naomi Hirose, in a recent
statement. "Could necessary measures have been taken with previous
tsunami evaluations? It was possible to take action."

This is a
shocking admission, especially since TEPCO's handling of the crisis up
until this point has been questionably deceptive. Back in 2011, for
instance, journalists began to call out TEPCO officials for allegedly
covering up evidence showing that the earthquake, and not the tsunami,
was ultimately responsible for the monumental damage that occurred at
the Fukushima facility. (http://enenews.com)

Since
the very beginning, TEPCO has continually tried to deny responsibility
for the meltdowns, as well as the impending failure of Reactor 4, which
was recently brought to the world's attention by former Japanese Prime
Minister Naoto Kan. According to his analysis, the ground beneath
Reactor 4 has been steadily sinking which, besides representing a very
serious global threat, also illustrates the fact that the construction
of the Fukushima facility was not properly designed to sustain heavy
earthquake movement. (http://enenews.com)

"It's
very important for TEPCO to recognize the need to reform and the
committee is very anxious to facilitate the reforms necessary for TEPCO
to become a world-class company," U.S. nuclear regulatory chief Dale
Klein, who is currently heading up TEPCO's Nuclear Reform Monitoring
Committee, is quoted as saying by Japan Times. "The committee's
goal is to ensure that TEPCO develops practices and procedures so an
accident like (Fukushima) will never happen again."

Source:-
http://www.naturalnews.com/037583_TEPCO_Fukushima_catastrophe.html