Why did Japan handle the Fukushima crisis so poorly?

Why did Japan handle the Fukushima crisis so poorly?

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They have a bit of a history with getting fucked up by nuclear disasters

muh slanty-eye pride and honoru - they would have shamed their families by admitting fault more than by fucking everything up

They were eating noodles or some shit

because they are stupid

tens of thousands died from the tsunami
0 died from the reactor
dozens died from the forced evacuation

result: don't talk about tsunami. don't talk about government incompetence. whine about nuclear energy nonstop

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I watched this documentary and was horrified. They just sat there while it escalated.
FWIW The new Godzilla is a satire of the Japanese Gov handling of Fukushima.
pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/japans-nuclear-meltdown/

japs dont fear radiation

there's no good way to deal with a leaking radioactive reactor until we have full automation. All the workers sent to clean up Chernobyl died within weeks.

Corporate protectionism kept a lid on it, but they handled it about as well as you can.

Who the fuck plans for your nuclear power plant being hit by a fuckin' tsunami?

Power goes down, back-up power goes down, emergency power goes down... No power = no cooling & no venting = done.

This is one of the thing post-apocalyptic scenarios on TV don't address. The US has 61 nuclear power plants in 30 states. In a "apocalyptic" scenario all these plants would melt down and completely contaminate most of North America in no time. (Canada also has 5, Mexico has 1).

So stack your bullets and bottle water - you can stare at it while you die from radiation poisoning.

FWIW Fukushima was much worse disaster than Katrina. However pic related is of a Japanese refugee center whereas New Orleans became a rape den after the hurricane.
Pretty stark contrast between societies.

Rather an exaggeration of the actual facts there austria

The Japs tried to cover up how bad it was until it couldn't be covered up. Less time responding, more time being spent on covering it up.

Britain has like 20

what

Because their nuclear reactors were an american design.

Should have used british engineering

The plants would shut down without human intervention, not blow up.

Literally the most expected thing to happen, don't you think they'd have safeguards for that?

First off the company was flat out told their tsunami defenses were inadequate.
Secondly they built the plant directly on top of a reactor which they were told not to do.
Finally they just sat back and did shit all paralyzed by the concept of casualtirs as the situation escalated because no one wanted to take responsibility
The only thing that stopped a meltdown was the plant manager disobeying orders and flooding the reactor. We were within an hour of a meltdown, irradiation of the pacific and rendering Tokyo uninhabitable.

no, everybody with 2 working brain cells knew a burning, leaking nuke reactor is bad from day 0. nobody just wanted to go inside the seal the core. the Soviets sent military (not scientists or some nerds) to do this and they all died

This is true, the french tried to tell them the design was shit.

You said "all of the workers sent in to clean up chernobyl died within weeks"

Only very few of the workers died within weeks, those were the ones who went in before the full scale of the meltdown was apparent. The death toll was 49 and some of those were trauma injuries and a helicopter crash.

There were thousand of people taking part in the remedial operation to contain the leak and they were largely fine

They needed the extra dose of radiation. Got to keep the anime weird for the fans.

The Japanese also sent in a suicide mission at Fukushima intiially which sealed valves and saved not only Japan but the Pacific Ocean
I wish we could get movies about guys like that who saved millions through their sacrifice.

The 2 nukes makes Japan what it's today.

They thought more radioactivity will make them Nietzsche's Super Humans.

At higher levels they are unbelievably corrupt.

I suppose they'll do it in Japan at some point.

No, they didn't. Nobody died from Fukushima because they refused to go all the way inside

>So stack your bullets and bottle water - you can stare at it while you die from radiation poisoning.
Why do you have to be so negative all this time? This is why no one wants to be around you.

I work at decomissioning a nuclear power station, the radiation is a secondary risk to the risk from the huge amount of asbestos these structures contain. If it did somehow blow up if the radiation didn't fuck up the local population then the asbestosis and mesothelioma would get them in the end...lol

Actually what made it wprse was the fact the company didnt have a failsafe in place to vent gases in case of power failure andnlied to the Japanese gov. When they figured it out the Japanese gov still hesitated because of civilian casualties and enabled a series of confused, contradictory evacuation orders and disstnces.
If you want a good horror movie watch this documentary
pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/japans-nuclear-meltdown/

I think you'll find that was down to the flawed American design of those boilers.

Americans cut so many corners its almost a fucking circle.

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they were completely reliant on the US for reactor coolant

Because they weren't prepared.

Also true. A French company flat out told them what would happen.

French tried to build their latest reactor design in france snd couldnt get it working, then they tried in finland and couldnt get it working. Now they brought it to england because we're the only people capable of building it properly