Wellll.... not entirely. As soon as the large earthquake hit, the reactors should have been shut down. This would have cost millions of yen to restart, but saved the whole site. Later, the reactors that were going critical should been shutdown flooded with seawater immediately. This would have involved on-site employees who just happened to be on shift that day deciding to take billions of yen in loss on behalf of the company. There were a whole series of bad decisions on that day at Fukushima Daiichi, each of which seemed too costly, but made the cost of failure even greater.
Yes, there were early bad decisions -- make the wall 3m taller, nothing would have happened. Not putting the backup generators in a flood zone, cooling would have worked. But on the day of the tsunami, no one was willing to be the tall poppy, so everyone lost out. But they seem like ordinary failures, only critical in the nuclear sense.
Trinity on the other hand, was a critical success. "Is that a 20? Okay, I guess we're doing this. The earth and skies erupt in fire as you summon Shiva, destroyer of worlds. And we'll have to pick this up next session."
Yes, there were early bad decisions -- make the wall 3m taller, nothing would have happened. Not putting the backup generators in a flood zone, cooling would have worked. But on the day of the tsunami, no one was willing to be the tall poppy, so everyone lost out. But they seem like ordinary failures, only critical in the nuclear sense.
Trinity on the other hand, was a critical success. "Is that a 20? Okay, I guess we're doing this. The earth and skies erupt in fire as you summon Shiva, destroyer of worlds. And we'll have to pick this up next session."
"Kitto daijoubu da yo." - Sakura Kinomoto