[Mad Dawgg]

"To a large degree the problem was poor management and maintenance practices and not upgrading their plants to avoid catastrophes."

Yeah AND they built it in an area that was always at risk to suffer both large earthquakes AND tsunamis...

Or in engineering terms "stupidity cubed"...

[vette6387]

“Yeah AND they built it in an area that was always at risk to suffer both large earthquakes AND tsunamis...

Or in engineering terms “stupidity cubed”...”

But remember they have to kowtow to the NRC. The NRC is like the FAA,. Some of the FAA’s ATC equipment is so old that they have to pay a company to stay in business to make vacuum tubes so they can “maintain” their equipment.