UPDATED FUKUSHIMA CIVILIAN PANEL REPORT HIGHLIGHTS LARGELY UNADDRESSED “HUMAN FACTORS” AS IMPORTANT AS EARTHQUAKE AND TSUNAMI IN 2011 REACTOR DISASTER

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation have joined forces to re-release an independent investigation of the "lessons learned" from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe. The report was originally released in late Feb. 2012, just before the one-year mark on the
nuclear catastrophe.

It had first reported that Prime Minister Kan's administration was drawing up contingency plans to evacuate 30-50 million people from the metro Tokyo area, if a "demonic chain reaction" of atomic reactor meltdowns, and high-level radioactive waste pool fires, were to have unfolded in mid-March 2011.