The Administration should ensure that procedures for taking action on the decisions of the Property Survey Board are adhered to and should monitor compliance by exception (para. 61).

The facility s robust design is similar to that of the Kashiwazaki Kariwa nuclear power plant, the world s largest, in Niigata, which was unscathed by the Chūetsu offshore earthquake (measuring 6.8 on the Richter scale) in July 2007. Fukushima Daiichi withstood the earthquake, but no one considered the possibility of ten meter high tsunami waves hitting a nuclear plant.