How could japan avoid the disasters they are facing?

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Hindsight is always 20/20. But there is not much really that they could have done.

There is no technology or science that could have mitigated or predicted the earthquake which caused the tsunami. The earthquake was the most powerful Japan has experienced in over 100 year, maybe even 500 years.

Japan had no choice but to use nuclear energy because they have no natural resources such as oil. There are NO oil fields anywhere in Japan. Because of this, every drop of oil has to be imported and mostly from the unstable Middle-East. And with the unpredictable price surges and the political instability of the region, Japan's economy was at the mercy of the sudden rise in oil price whenever something bad happens in the Middle-East.

The Japanese have already invested heavily in whatever alternatives they could use as well as being very energy efficient. Remember, they invented the Hybrid engine cars such as the Toyota Prius? Contrary to what the advocates of alternative energy tell you, the technology is simply not here for producing cheaper and more reliable energy. In the US, you have already doubled the number of wind turbines in the last 4 years to generate electricity, but that has not lower the cost of electricity nor has it lower the price of gas.

The only thing that could have had a realistic hope of preventing the Fukushima nuclear crisis is if the Japanese government had seriously reformed or done away with TEPCO (the nuclear company that owns and operated the nuclear plant). TEPCO was and probably still is a very incompetent and corrupt company. They have been sighted for faulty maintenance, design inadequacies, falsification of records and they even lost nuclear fuel rods years ago which has never been found. They should have had their license revoked before the plant was built.