(Continuation from yesterday)

This is a reprint of a diary entry I made in the past.

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It is believed that the Fukushima nuclear accident was caused by an unexpected tsunami.

But I'd like to give it some thought.

Even if that "unexpected" is true, the tsunami did not directly damage the reactors.

The tsunami only incapacitated the backup diesel generator and its peripheral equipment.

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So what if I recruited about 10 terrorists, trained them for about three years in sabotage, and then broke into the Fukushima nuclear power plant?

What if we used dynamite to bring down all the transmission towers, destroy the diesel generators, and then overpower the power plant with weapons and holed up all the people in the building as hostages?

Instead of waiting for the fuel rods to dissolve, why don't you threaten the staff with a gun and make them pull the fuel rods out of the central control room and leave them there?

Why don't I just kill a few hostages at a time, just enough for the police to see, and make sure no one gets into the nuclear power plant?

Of course, as terrorists, my fellow terrorists and I have no desire to save our own lives from the start.

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Will the special forces be able to properly kill all of us terrorists, assuming civilian casualties, before the radioactive nuclear fuel gets out of hand?

It seems to me that "creating" another Fukushima nuclear accident is not that difficult.

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Unfortunately, this idea is not my original, but I stole it from the last scene of "God's Fire" (written by Kaoru Takamura).

In this book, the protagonist and his friend, just two people, successfully attack a nuclear power plant on a winter night and open the lid of the reactor containment vessel.

Moreover, the meticulous planning was not at all unreasonable, even for the reader, and seemed feasible enough.

It seems to me that to prevent such a terrorist attack, a squad of armed men would have to be placed at every operating nuclear power plant in Japan.

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And another thing.

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Let's try to make the story simpler, shall I?

What would happen if a neighboring country, which is not on good terms with our country, overstepped the bounds of "brinkmanship diplomacy" and launched a missile attack or air strike on all of Japan's nuclear reactors?

In a matter of seconds, the land and water will be contaminated with radiation, and the majority of the people will be exposed to radiation at the cost of their lives.

Many people may not know this, but in 1981, Israel actually bombed a nuclear power plant in Iraq (Operation Babylon).

When it comes to war, anything is possible.

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Wife: "What happened at this 'Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power plant?"

Ebata: "If I had to put it in one sentence, it would be, 'The sensors leading to the central control room of the nuclear power plant were broken, the door was unlocked, and we were in a state of "welcome, terrorists.

Wife: "...lie"

Ebata: "If I had been able to break into the central control room by myself -- 'trespassing,' of course -- I would have been a hero in a different way, I think.

I am shocked that so few people are shocked or outraged by this news.

"I thought that anyone who had seen Fukushima 50 would be able to figure out that they could have created exactly the same situation (up to and including the reactor containment explosion) by simply dynamiting the power plant by hand, without submerging it in the tsunami.

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By the way, if a country to the north of the Korean peninsula decides to attack our country, they don't need a continental ballistic missile equipped with nuclear weapons.

A single launch of a semi-medium-range ballistic missile, capable of flying 1,200 kilometers, into any one of Japan's 54 operating nuclear reactors (nine of them) would be "game over.