Nuclear Energy Institute Report on Japan’s Nuclear Reactors, July 9, 2012

Japan Parliamentary Study Says Fukushima Accident Was ‘Manmade’

Industry/Regulatory/Political

• An independent commission appointed by Japan’s parliament to study the causes of last year’s nuclear accident at Fukushima Daiichi harshly criticized the government, the plant operator and the country’s national culture. After conducting 900 hours of public hearings and interviews with more than 1,100 people and visiting several nuclear power plants, the commission’s reportconcluded the accident was a “manmade disaster,” the…