Fukushima Investigators Say More Study Needed on What Went Wrong
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Sixteen months after crippled nuclear reactors poisoned a swath of Fukushima prefecture for decades to come and forced 160,000 residents to evacuate, independent investigators can’t agree on just what went wrong.
They do agree more study is needed into the meltdowns at Tokyo Electric Power Co. reactors after the magnitude-9 earthquake and tsunami of March 11, 2011. They differ on how the twin natural disasters combined to cause the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl in 1986.