3 former tepco officials face trial over fukushima

I dunno? The people who approved the plans for that plant and the fuel rod storage area above the reactor, plus those bureaucrats that did not approve building the sea wall higher (as was recommended before the tsunami or quake)should also have a good hard looking at IMO. Their are reactors that can not produce bombs. They are called Thorium reactors. Not popular with countries because, "NO BOMBS"

Okay.. what did TEPCO execs do to warrant a trial? I really gotta ask... Aside from conspiracy theories that I can find no basis for in actual events of that fatal week at the start of things.

Failure to anticipate an act of God? Cool..So who do we hang if a Tsunami goes the other direction on the Pacific and erases Diablo Canyon from existence? It's no more secure than Fuku was for a TRUE act of God with catastrophic power. Should they ..not have vented the reactor chambers? That WOULD have prevented the whole buildings blowing out in hydrogen explosions...but then...no..it wouldn't have. It STILL would have exploded. It just would have had the containment of the reactor space to make a PROPER bomb out of it, instead of blowing out the walls of the reactor buildings.

I'm dead serious, for those who still recall the chain of events, logic behind them, and how it all went so damned wrong after water hit the auxiliary generators? I mean..the WHOLE PLANET was trying to wargame a solution to get power..ANY power..from ANYWHERE on EARTH to them in time ..but nothing could, or was anywhere close enough to move before ...physics does what physics does when things interact badly.

True enough, the sister plant to Fuku, a few kilometers down the coast, survived. Largely untouched, actually, and functional (if it weren't next door to a death zone now, anyway). That SHOULD be a lesson to study hard for angles, heights and deflection of water force for why one survived and the other was almost totally destroyed.

Trial tho? Umm.. Again.. Okay......... What did those specific individual men do tho? That? I'm missing entirely in a chain of events I've looked over many times to look for anything like a smoking gun with 'AH-HA!! There is where they could have done differently!'.....to no avail.

Once the water hit the generators? The rest was a slow motion train wreck nothing on Earth could stop ...as we watched, IMO. ...now someone suggests they meant or recklessly disregarded a likely chance it would happen? Hmm... Cool! Again..who do we fry in OUR country for the same and much worse in judgement ..that simply hasn't been caught in a disaster to prove it yet?

That means a lot coming from you, with your unique perspective on this topic by comparison to the rest of us. I feel better not having the minority oddball opinion on this one. lol...