[net-gold] DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES : COUNTRIES: JAPAN : ENERGY NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS: Panicked Workers Fled Fukushima Plant in 2011 Despite Orders, Record Shows
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- Date: Tue, 20 May 2014 21:11:43 -0400 (EDT)
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DISASTERS: EARTHQUAKES :
COUNTRIES: JAPAN :
ENERGY NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS:
Panicked Workers Fled Fukushima Plant in 2011 Despite Orders, Record Shows
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Panicked Workers Fled Fukushima Plant in 2011 Despite Orders, Record Shows
By Martin Fackler
May 20, 2014
New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/21/world/asia/
fukushima-workers-fled-plant-after-accident-despite-orders.html
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A shorter URL for the above link:
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http://tinyurl.com/nzcs8fq
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TOKYO - At the most dire moment of the Fukushima nuclear crisis three
years ago, hundreds of panicked employees abandoned the damaged plant
despite being ordered to remain on hand for last-ditch efforts to regain
control of its runaway reactors, according to a previously undisclosed
record of the accident that was reported Tuesday by a major Japanese
newspaper.
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The newspaper, The Asahi Shimbun, said that the episode was described by
Masao Yoshida, the manager of the Fukushima Daiichi plant at the time of
the accident, in a series of interviews conducted by government
investigators several months after the March 2011 disaster.
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The newspaper said it had obtained a copy of a 400-page transcript of the
interviews, which had been referred to in government accounts of the
accident but had never been released in its entirety.
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Such a transcript could represent the only testimony of the accident left
by Mr. Yoshida, who died last year of cancer at the age of 58. Mr. Yoshida
is widely viewed in Japan as one of the disaster's few heroes for
preventing the crisis from spinning out of control by defying an order to
stop pouring seawater on the overheating reactors.
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The transcript offers a chilling glimpse of the panic gripping workers on
March 15, when the plant appeared to teeter on the brink of catastrophe
four days after a huge earthquake and tsunami knocked out vital cooling
systems. Mr. Yoshida told investigators that 650 workers and even midlevel
managers fled to another nearby nuclear plant, leaving him and 68 other
employees behind to try to contain a possible fuel-core meltdown at a
reactor whose building had just exploded. That reactor was one of three
that were determined to have melted down during the accident.
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The disclosure of the episode three years after the fact is also certain
to raise renewed criticism of the government and Tepco for failing even
now to fully disclose what happened during the accident, which spewed
radiation over a wide section of northern Japan. In its report, The Asahi
Shimbun, one of Japan's largest newspapers, assailed the government for
failing to make all records of the accident public even as it moves to
restart Japan's undamaged nuclear plants, which were idled after the
accident for safety fears.
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The complete article may be read at the URL above.
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