Reference : Engineering in Ethics.

Gather information on accidents that plagued Japan's atomic energy industry during the past decade like Fukushima. Reluctant to admit to problems apt to have serious political repercussions, electric utility managers on several occasions decided not to report problems that had been encountered. For employees to go public with such information would have been considered treachery. So it was left to an American engineer working for the subcontracting General Electric Company to report the deficiencies. He was able to do so under a new law providing "legal protection to third parties informing regulators of improprieties by operators of nuclear facilities." (You may search for Tokyo Electric Power Co. TEPCO at website www.platt.com, a case study by Hiroshi Lino at www.onlineethics.org, (Links to an external site.) or the hundred YouTubes on Fukushima.