Actions Contributed to Disaster Level Reduction of the Fukushima Accident
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In this paper, the actions less known but contributed to mitigate outcome of Fukushima accident in the light of the concept of resilience engineering are described with the emphasis on the human positive contributions. Although accident reports already published mainly focuses on finding persons to be blamed and on finding root causes, there were judgments and actions that reduced the disaster level of the accidents after the tsunami hit the plant and lost almost all methods to save the plant. In this paper, the positive aspects of the efforts made by the TEPCO has been focused and discussed.
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