Atsuyuki Suzuki, former president of the Japanese Atomic Energy Agency, and now senior scientific adviser to his successor, listed some of these reports in a talk at UC, Berkeley (start around 8 minutes for a longer list): • country specific - groupthink with consensus first, overconfidence, etc (Parliament) • human caused disaster, lack of emergency preparedness (government) •
lack of safety consciousness, ignoring both natural events and worker training (academic)
This
lack of transparency on the true extent
of this widespread
safety issue may be why the problem has yet to fully bubble up into the public
consciousness or to attract the serious attention
of U.S. regulators.