ABSTRACT
The pragmatics of what occurred at the Tokyo Electric Power Company's Fukushima Daiichi power plant on 11 March, 2011 demanded swift and thorough action by governments, regulators and the nuclear power industry to reduce those risks to levels acceptable to any reasonable and informed person. The pathways of this disputation, as well as its incomplete resolution in fora such as the International Atomic Energy Agency's Fukushima Ministerial Conference on Nuclear Safety of December 2012 are important elements which are assisting in building a comprehensive account of this globally important incident. The consequence was the tragic circumstances which occurred at Fukushima, a massive nuclear power plant struck successively by a violent earthquake followed by an enormous tsunami; a tragically man-made disaster in the midst of the fury of nature. The TEPCO Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant accident was the result of collusion between the government, the regulators and TEPCO, and the lack of governance practiced by those parties.
