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Thu, 2011-06-02 00:13 — AlMac99

If Mr Kan loses the vote of confidence, due shortly in parliament, he would be forced to resign or call an election.

an opinion poll published on Wednesday suggests the public has a dim view of Mr Kan's handling of the Fukushima disaster.

In a survey of 700 adults, 79% rated his management of the crisis as poor, according to the Pew Research Center.

On Wednesday, the UN nuclear energy agency the IAEA said Japan had "underestimated" the risk of a tsunami hitting a nuclear power plant.

(In Al Mac opinion, Japan had "ignored" the risk, by relying on decisions by people who did not understand tsunami science.)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-13624199

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Thu, 2011-06-02 00:22 — AlMac99

Many errors were made, in my opinion, leading up to the severity of this disaster.

Statistics and Risk Data Analysis are branches of Mathematics, which in turn is a branch of Science, in my opinion, which might not be taught to Business people, who then misuse those areas of knowledge in making decisions.

In this latest disaster, there were actually multiple concurrent disasters.

  • Earthquake
  • Tsunami
  • Critical Infrastructure afire
  • Bitter cold weather
  • Power outages

Much of the risk analysis failed to make allowance for the notion that there can be multiple concurrent crises making it impossible for response to deal effectively with everything which needs to be responded to.  Fortunately for Japan, the epicenter was not in Tokyo, because it sounds like Japan had the same vulnerabilities as Haiti 2010 Jan, and USA 2001 Sep ... certain kinds of response would not have been possible had it been a major city getting hit.  Remember in NYC, the Mayor's Disaster Response Coordinating Center was in the Twin Towers, with no backup anywhere else?

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Alister Wm Macintyre

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