tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7388372827914524197.post5794897727352928377..comments2023-05-27T00:08:34.330+09:00Comments on Japan - after the BIG earthquake: May 27, FridayGabi Grevehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16362456518166174106noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7388372827914524197.post-45324129796198225682011-05-28T11:19:03.795+09:002011-05-28T11:19:03.795+09:00Japan nuclear crisis panel led by expert in failur...Japan nuclear crisis panel led by expert in failure<br /><br />When Yotaro Hatamura delves into the causes of the nuclear crisis at Japan's Fukushima plant, he'll be drawing on years of experience with mistakes -- other people's.<br /><br />Hatamura, tapped this week by Prime Minister Naoto Kan to head a team that will investigate the causes of the world's worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl in 1986, heads the Association for the Study of Failure, a consulting group dedicated to helping organizations learn from their mistakes.<br /><br />"Japanese culture puts great weight on 'face' and so failure is not acceptable," Kenji Iino, vice chair of the association, told Reuters in an interview.<br /><br />"People try to hide their mistakes ... But that tends to just make things worse and similar mistakes happen. The basic idea is to explain and analyze openly to prevent the same mistakes being made over and over again."<br /><br />Among the disasters the group has analyzed are the 1985 Japan Air Lines crash that killed 520 people, as well as previous nuclear accidents. Causes range from ignorance and embarrassment to bad planning and inflexible operations.<br /><br />"I think nuclear power is a dangerous and scary thing, but it is also very important," Hatamura said in a 2007 interview.<br />...<br />Nearly three months later, engineers are battling to meet what many experts say is an overly optimistic target of putting the damaged reactors into a stable "cold shutdown" by January.<br /><br />Iino, who translated the 70-year-old Hatamura's book "Learning From Failure" into English, said that while final conclusions must wait for the probe, it appeared the utility's first fatal error was its failure to take steps to prevent an accident whose risk of occurring was low but whose consequences were huge.<br />...<br />"If there is someone on the ground who can make the right judgment, that's fine. The problem is when there is no one who can make that call," he said.<br /><br />http://www.zimbio.com/Japan+Earthquake+2011/articles/b2B0ce3szKV/Japan+nuclear+crisis+panel+led+expert+failure<br />.anonymous newshttp://www.zimbio.com/Japan+Earthquake+2011/articles/b2B0ce3szKV/Japan+nuclear+crisis+panel+led+expert+failurenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7388372827914524197.post-41559217506933675082011-05-27T16:57:58.777+09:002011-05-27T16:57:58.777+09:00I really feels so bad to know about the disaster. ...I really feels so bad to know about the disaster. Hope there will be peace and serenity all over the world one day.<br />Lets hope for the best. <br />WordpressAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com