Ex-PM Kan admits Japan was unprepared for nuclear crisis
The country’s former prime minister said Friday,that the crippled Fukushima plant should not have been built so close to the ocean on a tsunami-prone coast.
He said the disaster laid bare a host of an even bigger man-made vulnerabilities in Japan’s nuclear industry and regulation, from inadequate safety guidelines to crisis management, all of which he said need to be overhauled.
“We should have taken more adequate safety steps, and we failed to do so,” he added. “It was a big mistake and I must admit that (the accident) was due to human error.”
Kan said there is no future for nuclear energy, considering the magnitude of the damage from an accident and the yet-to-be resolved question of what to do with radioactive waste.
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