Japanese Officials Didn't Keep Records of Fukushima Daiichi Discussions

Japan - Japanese Energy Minister Yukio Edano admitted no discussions in the days shortly after the meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi were recorded.


"It is inconceivable that there were no records kept,” said nuclear engineering professor at Osaka University Kenji SumitaIt. “It may have been difficult to keep official logs during the extreme confusion after the crisis, but they could have taken simple memos. Perhaps there were some goings on that the participants did not feel comfortable being made public."


Only one-page logs with agenda items to be discussed were found according to NHK, which broke the story after attempting to get detail of the discussions.

The current estimate on the time it will take to clean up the area is about four decades.