And I want to ask, how were you able to capture this level of detail, the thinking of the people in the plant? I know you interviewed quite a few it’s an amazing recapture. It’s an immense canvas that you’ve written and sketched out of what happened.
#Nuclear meltdown manuals#
The first attempts to put in place the emergency measures, reading manuals by battery light, just the human drama. The blackout, as you mentioned, where there was no electricity. Literally an hour by hour accounting from the moment the plant was hit by the tsunami, of the initial hours, the struggle of the workers to understand what had happened. There’s a focus on individuals inside the plant and out. On this episode of the Brookings Cafeteria, Brookings Press Director Bill Finan interviews Yoichi Funabashi, author of “ Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis.” Funabashi, an award-winning Japanese journalist, columnist, and author, and now chairman of Asia Pacific Initiative, interviewed more than 300 government officials, power plant operators, and military personnel to provide a meticulous recounting and analysis of the struggle at all levels to contain the disaster.Ĭo-founder and Chairman - Asia Pacific InitiativeįINAN: … I want to tell listeners that your book is a tour de force of what happened at Fukushima. As the author of a new book from the Brookings Institution Press writes, failures at all levels of Japan’s government and private sector worsened the human and economic impact of the disaster and ensured that its consequences would endure for years to come. March 2021 marks ten years since an earthquake off Japan’s Pacific Coast and the tsunami it caused led to reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to melt down, releasing radiation and forcing the government to evacuate over 100,000 residents in surrounding areas.
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