Fukushima Daiichi Company TEPCO
Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) is the owner of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant.
Before the nuclear accident that was set off in March 2011, TEPCO was one of the highly regarded companies in Japan. It had huge assets ($136 billion as of 2010) and many employees (39,000 as of 2010) as the sole major provider of electricity for Tokyo and surrounding areas. Many students wanted to work in TEPCO. Many politicians received political funds from TEPCO. And, the Japanese nuclear community was virtually financed by TEPCO; even professors of top universities were supported in various ways by TEPCO. TEPCO was one of the most respected and richest companies in Japan. But the situation has drastically changed since the occurrence of the Fukushuma Daiichi in March 2011.
But noï½” many employees of TEPCO step forward to tell the current internal situation of the company. TEPCO has many subsidiaries and affiliated companies, though not many parties in those businesses step forward to tell their current situation in connection with TEPCO.
Yet there are some reports, in Japanese magazines, etc., about opinions and views of insiders on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident and themselves.
They are disappointed to know that TEPCO's elite engineers and core staff found in 2008, through study on history of natural disasters in Japan, a possibility that a huge tsunami which could reach 10 meters high would occur in the North Pacific Ocean off the plant and hit it. They reported it in some conference held in the US. They discussed it with Japanese Governmental agency in charge of safety of nuclear plants. But TEPCO's management would not take it serious, almost neglecting it. The plant was just designed, built, and operated on the assumption that the Fukushuma Daiichi plant would not be attacked by a tsunami highder than 5.7 meters. Therefore, it could not withstand the 15-meter high tsunami on March 11, 2011.
They also admitted that TEPCO is a very big company, so that workers in different departments and sections do not know one another. Especially the division in charge of nuclear engineering is isolated, since staff in the division are too proud. Yet, elite members of central management sections are more proud; they don't even show respect for engineers. Indeed, TEPCO is a company where sons and daughters of some elite politicians and leaders in the society work. Even many high-ranking officials of the Japanese Government have been hired by TEPCO as executives after their retirement from public services. Accordingly, the culture of TEPCO is not so ordinary and plain, as they provide electricity for all the offices of the Japanese Government and top businesses in Tokyo.
So, this proud and first-rate enterprise TEPCO was hit by the worst tsunami in these 1000 years of Japan to suffer one of the worst nuclear accidents in human history.
The conclusion is that only the God knew beforehand this tragic fate of TEPCO and Japan, since TEPCO is one of the most powerful companies in Japan. It was unthinkable, before Fukushima Daiichi, that anybody could make the utility compnay so humble and shamed.
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