He said: "A great deal of study was done after the Chuetsu-oki Earthquake in 2007. In a literal sense it might not be possible to say that nothing was learnt from the 2007 earthquake, but the underlying purpose was industry damage control and getting the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plants restarted. In that sense nothing was learnt. They were never going to let objective science get in the way of Japan's plans for nuclear power."