Japanese nuclear establishment resumes emergency preparedness exercises
October 11, 2013 National, prefectural, and local municipal officials numbering in the thousands took part in the first nuclear emergency preparedness training exercises since the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe began on March 11, 2011, as reported by the Asahi Shimbun.
The training exercises centered on the Sendai nuclear power plant (photo, left), located in Kagoshima Prefecture on Japan's southern island.
The exercises supposedly improved on weaknesses identified in the the Japanese Diet's report, by the independent Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, which found that "The training exercise cannot be said to have been effective," due to an inappropriate faith in the industry-nurtured "nuclear safety myth," which held that "critical accidents would never occur at Japanese nuclear plants."