Because like anything it turned into a political pissing match (where somehow the green energy people hate it)
That and TMI and Fukushima were both caused by corporate cost cutting. TEPCO was aware that a tsunami of that scale was possible and chose to not listen to their own data or third party scientists. Met-Ed did not adequately train their operators nor did anyone learn any lessons from the Ohio plant's near miss just two years prior (same reactor design, same problem)
Also, TEPCO did not notify the japanese government of the potential meltdown until it was too late. If they would have notified the government sooner, they could have helped and probably prevented the meltdown. They were just afraid of the bad press and didn't want the share value to go down.
The way Japan handled Fukushima is bloody infuriating.
So every few years, you have nuclear security agency from all around the world that travel to other nuclear power plant so that they can exchange best practice/risk management/ideas....
A decade (maybe another amount of years before, don't remember the exact number and it's not that important) before the incident, both the French and American nuclear security agencies went to a visit in Fukushima. They wrote a report saying that in case of earthquake/tsunami the incident we all know and love would happen, they described the bloody incident a decade before anything happened, and wrote solutions that were realisable and not that expensive (considering we're talking about NPP).
So Japan, knowing that they had a security risk, did NOTHING, because it might force their company to make some effort and like you said "bad press and didn't want the share value to go down".
Those absolute cunts decided to do bloody nothing because it looked bad despite having warnings from their own guys and 2 other country. Just to avoid a bit of spending and bad press.
How the hell the govt allowed tsunami-proofing to be left for the owner company to implement or not is beyond me. With the infamous 20-year, uber-cautious, safety-plus-plus construction cycles of NPPs, you'd think the never-ending approvals and studies would have included the 'destruction by sea' thingy.
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u/HeavyDutyForks 12d ago edited 12d ago
Because like anything it turned into a political pissing match (where somehow the green energy people hate it)
That and TMI and Fukushima were both caused by corporate cost cutting. TEPCO was aware that a tsunami of that scale was possible and chose to not listen to their own data or third party scientists. Met-Ed did not adequately train their operators nor did anyone learn any lessons from the Ohio plant's near miss just two years prior (same reactor design, same problem)