TEPCO Prez to UK - Fukushima "a warning to the world"

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12. And why is that a problem? To some extent is was.

Not that that means that it wasn't the tsunami that was the direct cause of the disaster... but yes, they've learned that they made mistakes (many of which were standard parts of the same generation of BWRs in the US) - Getting backup generators to the plant only to find that the connections are incompatible? They never practiced? Having a micro-managing national executive driving some decision making (and without the staff or resources that were designed to assist him in exactly this type of event)? Seawall apparently lower than a maximum predicted tsunami?

And that those who want to build nuclear plants need to accept that the "what if" mode during decision-making needs to include the reality that melt downs and releases of radioactive materials are NOT an impossibility.

Nobody has said that they are.

In other words, if you build a nuclear plant, be prepared to deal with a disaster.

Which is already part of the UK plan and has been built into newer reactor designs for decades. But "disaster" doesn't have to mean "largescale radiaoctive release endangering the public".

If you want to interpret that as "don't stop using nuclear power" that is your choice.

There's no need to "interpret" it at all since he was explicitly talking about how to plan for the next generation of reactor construction... not whether to build it.