Japanese Fukfest

Is There a Lawyer In the House? Int'l. Class Action Lawsuit Time

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 2011-09-21 09:55.

I'm amazed that NO news of any law firm/s filing an international class action lawsuit on grounds of gross negligence against GE, Tepco et al for permitting the plant and others like it to be built in a known seismically vulnerable geographic area.

Japan has a long history of earthquakes and tsunamis as we all know-
Would anyone from the legal profession care to comment?

Quote from this article: "Mr

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 2011-09-19 21:34.

Quote from this article: "Mr Kan also said there were no effective safeguards in place because ''we had never foreseen a situation in which a quake, tsunami and a nuclear plant accident would occur at the same time." "
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-09-19/kan-reveals-tokyo-evacuation-plans...

Is this really what Kan said? Could it be a mis-translation into English? Because if Kan really said this it is completely ridiculous. Earthquakes CAUSE tsunamis, and the Japanese are well aware of that. So Kan's statement simplifies down to: ''we had never foreseen a situation in which a quake-tsunami and a nuclear plant accident would occur at the same time.". But it is surely common sense that any building or equipment at all can be damaged in a big earthquake, including nuclear plants, and building such plants right next to the sea makes them vulnerable to the very real further danger of a resulting tsunami flooding the equipment that survives the earthquake. So It is hardly rocket science to be able to see that an earthquake can directly cause a nuclear plant accident.

Candor

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 2011-09-20 08:45.

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Actually, the statement is credible. It is quite apparent that the Japanese disaster scenarios did not anticipate 3 meltdowns, resulting from a tsunami; caused by an earthquake.

They probably did not anticipate a $20T cleanup bill and a radioactive induced public health crisis.

Present circumstances indicate that such considerations SHOULD have been planned for.

Japanese, American and European politicians have been living in a dream world for quite some time.

Time to wake up ... and smell the coffee.