‘End of Tokyo’ planned for after Fukushima crisis

A worst-case scenario sketched out by the Japanese government foresaw the end of Tokyo in a chain of nuclear explosions as the Fukushima crisis erupted last year, an independent panel said.

Chief cabinet secretary Yukio Edano told investigators: “I had this demonic scenario in my head” that nuclear reactors could break down one after another.

“If that happens, Tokyo will be finished.”