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a foreseeable risk Japan’s neutered regulators had failed to foresee

Hogwash. The plant was built on a known tsunami basin. The whole calamity from beginning to end was caused by bureaucratic pigheadedness against warnings based on better knowing.

Not that I see that as much of an argument for this piece's line of argument because we're still just as bad at having the right people make decisions for the right reasons. And if there was a single crumb of contribution towards that in the opinion piece I must have missed it.




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