Now, we are going to continue in Unit 5 seeing what happened after Fukushima.
After the event,
it was established
a Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission.
And the commission said or stated several causes for what happened there.
The first one was that Fukushima was a disaster made in Japan.
This means that everything that happened there was
because Japanese culture was absolutely obedient.
They were reluctant to question authority,
and they were devoted to stick to the program.
So, basically, they did never question anything there.
So, there was a set of lessons learned
in order to avoid all these problems.
What lessons learned did we have?
The first one was that both,
Tepco and the nuclear regulator were deficient in establishing,
implementing and maintaining safety culture.
For them, it was more important to have authority.
So, they were not paying attention to what makes a safety culture healthy.
Like having a questioning attitude, as we saw before.
Also, we can say that the regulator
or the regulator agencies, were not independent.
The depended also, at the end, on TEPCO and others.
So, they were subject to regulatory capture.
They were not having their highest standards
in order to have, as we said, a safety culture
or a healthy safety.
Finally, what they stated was
that if you were to investigate
all the locations close to Fukushima, they saw
that in nearby towns there were no casualties
because when they built
a barrier against tsunamis, they used older tsunami records
older that what was stated in all the PSA analysis.
That means that basically TEPCO and the regulators were lazy
doing their job. They were in a very dangerous area,
with high risk in earthquakes and tsunamis,
and they never did an extra effort to focus on all the safety culture
to avoid problems with them.
Now we are going to see a video stating all those things.