Japan: Fukushima nuclear crisis caused by human activities

TOKYO - nuclear power plant (NPP) Fukushima, who last year became the source of the nuclear crisis in Japan, after the tsunami, it also involves human error. This was revealed in the results of investigations carried out the Japanese authorities.

"TEPCO's Fukushima nuclear power plant accident, caused by the collusion between the government as policy makers and TEPCO. Accidents also occur due to lack of coordination between the two sides," said the Independent Commission of Inquiry Fukushima Nuclear Accident, told AFP on Thursday (07/05/2012) .

"Both parties (the Government of Japan and TEPCO) has betrayed the rights of citizens to keep safe from a nuclear accident. Therefore, we conclude this kecekalaan an act of human error," the report continued.

Inquiry commission believes that the root causes of these accidents are systems and organizational arrangements that ultimately affect rational decision-making. Party committee also mentioned, this also causes errors in the decision-making.

This investigation is the third conducted in Japan's worst nuclear crisis. The results of the previous report mentions, as an operator TEPCO Fukushima could not have predicted the possibility of a coming tsunami threat is so great. The investigation also mentioned, if the company has a fixed rule, they can certainly do the evacuation of the plant staff.

"While the direct cause, the commission could not determine the conclusion that there are tools that were damaged by the quake hit," continued the investigation commission.

Japan had earlier said the nuclear industry, nuclear power plants they will bear the brunt of the quake and tsunami. But the latest incident proves nuclear power plant in Japan is still fragile natural disasters, especially earthquakes.

Source: okezone.com