While I agree with some of your points (such as, the operators of the plant were criminally negligent for not responding to the known flooding from tsunami risk

While I agree with some of your points (such as, the operators of the plant were criminally negligent for not responding to the known flooding from tsunami risk) the overall point of the article is much of the permanent evacuations and decontamination work, and also germany's decision to phase out nuclear power are a vast overreaction. This overreaction is the reason the disaster was so costly, and also the article makes the valid point the costs of the nuclear accident are conflated with the costs of the earthquake and tsunami by groups looking to discredit nuclear power. Yes, in the immediate days after the accident/tsunami it was not clear how bad it was going to get, and the initial evacuation was justified based on that risk but once the situation was stabilized then the people evacuated from the majority of the exclusion zone should have been allowed to return home.