Japan's Fukushima nuclear crisis was a preventable disaster resulting from "collusion" among the government, regulators and the plant Soperator, an expert panel said on
Thursday, Reuters reported. Damage from the huge March 11, 2011, earthquake, and not just the ensuing tsunami, could not be ruled out as a cause of the accident, the panel added.
The panel criticized the response of Fukushima Daiichi plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co, regulators and then Prime Minister Naoto Kan. Regulators had been reluctant to adopt global safety standards that could have helped prevent the nuclear disaster. The panel urged strict checks on all reactors against guidelines set in 2006.
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