Reply #97: disaster affected TEPCO employees too

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Not trying to defend TEPCO's actions, (just my two cents) but isn't reasonable to assume that some of their employees from the Fukashima facility were unfortunately among the 10,000+ casualties in the tsunami? I would have to assume that employees lived fairly close to the 'office', and that was the hardest hit area, correct? Entire towns were wiped out. My guess is that they lost a good portion of their employees in this disaster. Not sure what percentage of their disaster plans would have covered missing or dead employees.

If that is the case, I am sure they could have, and probably did, move employees from their other nuclear facitlities in to help out on this one. But that involves logistics. I can only guess that involved tracking down employees of the Fukashima facility, and perhaps not even getting responses in a lot of cases (if they were even able to communicate due to disabled infrastructure). This would have taken hours and perhaps days in some cases, perhaps at the most critical time.

As stated earlier, even disaster plans have their assumptions. Unfortunately, the scope of this disaster was 'off the chart'. Lessons are being learned.