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The utility’s glaring ineptitude with crisis management was noted right from the start of the Fukushima disaster. How and why could TEPCO have kept repeating the same blunders over and over? (Asahi 31 July 2013)1
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Kingston, J. (2016). Downsizing Fukushima and Japan’s Nuclear Relaunch. In: Mullins, M.R., Nakano, K. (eds) Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137521323_4
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