Some background stories about what happened in the early hours after the quake and tsunami at the highest levels of government are starting to appear.
The Office of the Prime Minister had been trying to speed up the first venting action to be taken by Tepco just after the earthquake and tsunami hit the Tepco Reactors in Fukushima. But, for some reason, Tepco kept saying that they could not get the electrical lines back in power and that they were working on it. Urgent messages were evidently sent back and forth to no avail. The Prime Minister's office was ordering Tepco to get it done at any cost and in any way.
At one point, Prime Minister Kan went to Tepco's head office and ordered them to start the venting, in order to avoid a hydrogen explosion. He felt that his orders were ignored and his cabinet then had to pass an urgent piece of legislation that ORDERED Tepco to comply. That is when Tepco finally started the venting process manually.
But it was too late, the first hydrogen explosion happened 12 hours later.
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