The article I posted earlier today linked to an earlier article, fro m8 september, that I apparently missed at the time. In it the Japanese prime minister at the time of the earthquake gives a chilling account of how TEPCO considered withdrawing all personal from Fukushima at the height of the crisis and effectively just let things develop.

The (now ex-) prime minister speak of his fears that a release of radiation many times that of the Chernobyl disaster that would force an evacuation of Tokyo that would spell the end of Japan as a state was on the cards.

Chilling stuff.

Here