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Comment by maxerickson

Here's a key phrase from the abstract that suggests more than hindsight bias is involved in the report:

The Fukushima accident was preventable, if international best practices and standards had been followed, if there had been international reviews, and had common sense prevailed in the interpretation of pre-existing geological and hydrodynamic findings.

Another one:

Three, the hazard analysis to calculate the maximum probable tsunami at Dai-ichi appeared to have had methodological mistakes, which almost nobody experienced in tsunami engineering would have made.

So there is sense in which they are pretty strongly pointing at regulatory failure.

parent maxerickson 11 years ago

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