Inspectors found 16 locations in which unauthorized entry was possible at the plant-and an attempted cover-up to boot. Last week, Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) effectively banned TEPCO from restarting its Kashiwazaki plant-which is one of the largest nuclear power facilities in the world-on the Sea of Japan coast after the complex was found to be riddled with major security flaws that could make it a target for terrorists. The company he is referring to is his former employer, the Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), which operated the Fukushima plant that suffered a historic nuclear meltdown in March 2011 after a huge offshore earthquake triggered a tsunami that flooded its reactors, releasing deadly radiation and forcing 160,000 people to evacuate.Ī year after the incident, an investigation by a Japanese parliamentary panel concluded that, “although triggered by these cataclysmic events,” the disaster was “profoundly manmade,” and can be attributed to “a multitude of errors and wilful negligence that left the Fukushima plant unprepared for the events.” “There is a very strong possibility that there will be another nuclear disaster in Japan, and the company running the biggest nuclear plant here cannot be trusted,” Toshio Kimura, a nuclear engineer who predicted Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster six years before it happened, told The Daily Beast. The man who predicted the world’s worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl sees another one looming.
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