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Meet Pio d'Emilia, an Italian journalist resident in Tokyo
His story begins on 11 March 2011 with the earthquake and tsunami
And Fukushima disaster
A survey through four years
It is said that you either embrace or reject Japan.
Whether accommodating to the, or one remains stranger, stakkarsgaijin.
I'm a journalist. I've lived in Japan for over 30 years.
I love and hate the country. Do it and ignore it.
I accept it and oppose it.
As if it were my own country.
I sleep happily on entatami.
But I can not give up some of my old and unhealthy habits. As coffee.
Pio d'Emilia
Above all, I'm never going to get used to earthquakes.
I live in the 6th floor of an old building, and when it comes a quake ...
I get panic.
If I had been at home at. 14. 46 on 11 March 2011 -
- I would have panicked.
Wild panic.
I'm in central Tokyo in Akasaka.
It's a powerful earthquake here. All buildings sway.
Look at the tap of the building! See how it moves!
-How Strong is the earthquake? -7.9 On the Richter scale.
It's a tsunami coming.
Where then? -In Sendai. It is about 7 meters high.
Hand it dawns on me -
- That we have survived the biggest earthquake ever in Japan.
9.0 on the Richter scale at the epicenter northeast of the country.
And it felt like strength 7.4 in Tokyo.
Then comes the tsunami.
A tidal wave overturns along the 640 km of coastline in Tohoku.
Some places it is over 30 meters high and have 6-7 kilometers inland.
A whole, beautiful region, with houses of wood, plastic and aluminum -
- Are quickly swamped and swallowed by the water.
AKT I OVER ALL FATTEEVNE
The reactors are closed.
It is hard to believe that the initial death toll is so low.
It's hard to believe those who say that nuclear power plants are safe.
The situation is most serious at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, -
- One of the 19 nuclear power plants in the country. It is located 300 km northeast of Tokyo.
It is owned by Tepco, one of 10 such power companies.
With its 6 nuclear reactors this is one of the world's major nuclear facilities.
It is considered one of the most secure, though it is 40 years old.
In the endless minutes during the earthquake -
- Turns reactor 1, 2, 3, 5 and 6 off automatically.
Technicians activate safety procedures.
Earthquake affects plant hard. HÃ¸yspenningsmastene fall.
The power plant is isolated from the national power supply.
Diesel generators turn on automatically and provides power to the cooling systems.
They should reduce the heat in power reactors once they have stopped working.
Under an hour after the earthquake ruins a 14 meter high wave nuclear power plant.
It crosses the pond built -
- To protect the plant against maximum 6 meter high waves.
After a few minutes filling water all the technical rooms.
It damages the emergency generators in the basement under the ground.
Two workers drowned.
Without power, all the measuring instruments out of action.
Nobody knows what is happening inside the reactors.
The gravity of the emergency situation is unclear.
TEPCO executives abroad to promote Japanese nuclear technology.
And the news on television is too contradictory to be true.
I must do something. I'll call the director.
But phone and Internet does not work anymore.
To reactivate the power -
- Directing director Masai Yoshida workers to retrieve the car battery's.
Others need to buy batteries to the nearest supermarkets.
Workers are able to provide electricity to the panels in the control room.
But pressure gauges reveals how serious the situation is.
If they do not act immediately, the three reactors explode.
To ease the pressure must release the radioactive gas inside the reactors.
But to do so, Tepco have the Prime Minister's permission.
Naoto Kan, who is also an engineer, give the green light.
The circuits have no power to open the valves.
Manual opening is the only possibility.
But the procedures for this are not in the instruction manual.
Residents of an area less than 3 km away advised to evacuate.
Those who live between 3 and 10 km away, are advised to stay home.
Here in Tokyo it is neither serious damage nor victims.
People do not panic. They prepare the evening in public places, with friends, or out.
I do not know what to do.
I can be in Tokyo, where I will get more news.
No. It is better to drive to Iwaki, to get closer to the damaged power plant.
But no. It is impossible.
The roads to the nuclear power plant is blocked and also the other way.
Perhaps many are trying to go north to get news about their relatives.
There are even violating railway network.
The country is divided in two.
I must return to Tokyo and try to fly to Akita.
The only way to come to Fukushima is from the other side.
TEPCO silence worries Can.
He will find out how serious the situation is.
He arrives at the atomic disaster.
He takes the lead, sending a team of workers to open the valves manually.
Since residents are evacuated in a two-mile radius -
- Acting controlled release of radioactive steam as an acceptable solution.
People are starting to believe that the most critical phase is now over.
Reaktortypen i Fukushima Daiichi, General Electric-modellen fra 1978, -
- Is like a huge steam boiler when it is in operation.
The core contains fuel rods with uranium.
Demerger of uranium nuclei produces radioactive atoms -
- Generating heat for several days after the reactor is shut down.
The heat in the reactor core developed by nuclear fission.
Boiling water produces steam, which goes to the turbines -
- And rotates them to produce electricity.
The condensed steam then goes back into the reactor.
The replacement of the fuel is usually performed by means of a crane -
- Between the reactor pool and the adjacent pool.
During this operation, the two pools completely flooded.
The transfer of the fuel rods takes place under water, -
- Through a common port that acts as a valve.
Keeping fuel isolated from the environment and refrigerated in each phase -
- Is therefore a basic security.
The first barrier is iron capsule, head of the reactor.
The second barrier is a layer of reinforced concrete.
The walls of the building are the last barrier between the reactor and the atmosphere.
Kl. 15. 46 on March 12 document cameras a huge explosion -
- Which pushes the top of the reactor building 1.
Four workers are seriously injured.
Among technicians at Fukushima Daiichi and the rest of the world is rising panic.
Luckily shows reconnaissance that only the top of the building exploded.
Not reactor. It seems as if it is still intact.
I run without a break until dawn. When I find myself in Kesennuma.
The tsunami has only spared a few buildings of reinforced concrete.
The rest are destroyed, distorted and spewed, without any order and restriction.
No government has been here. It is three days since the tsunami.
It looks like this here now.
Se of.
Kesennuma is a city of about 60,000 residents.
It is one of the four capitals of Japan's tuna industry.
Now the city is completely destroyed.
The tsunami is coming. Be careful.
-Coming It now? -Yes. The water is rising.
But she flees not. She gets there.
Her husband is sick and bedridden. And she will not leave him here.
KESENNUMA BANK
The bank is closed due. tsunami. We apologize for the inconvenience.
No yelling.
No one is desperate.
No asking for help.
We find ourselves between Kesennuma and Matsu.
There is an endless line to buy the latest goods at the supermarket.
The queue is in perfect order. These people have been queuing for six hours.
The pressure in the reactor increases again.
They must be cooled and stabilized to avoid the worst possible outcome.
Because of. lack of freshwater looks seawater appears to be the only option.
But it involves irreparable damage to all reactors.
Masao Yoshida, director of the power plant, had to take the difficult decision.
He defied TEPCO orders.
They would save the expensive reactors from salt corrosion.
I'm back in Akita. And I'm afraid, for the first time.
Is it right to be here? I have family in Italy. Five children.
Is it right to take that risk?
I trust the government. Particularly the Prime Minister.
But the problem is: Can the government depend on Tepco and nuclear power industry?
Naoto is an honest person who will never allow his people become contaminated.
At the nuclear power plant in Fukushima Daiichi -
- They discover that the core of the reactor 1, 2 and 3 are damaged.
In desperation, sending government specially trained firefighters -
- To keep the most serious situation in chess, in reactor 3.
Once they are in place, destroying a massive explosion -
- The whole upper part of the building 3 and parts of the building 4.
Americans nedvurderte accident.
The French warned of an inevitable apocalypse.
The reactors in Fukushima and the rest of Japan is made in the USA.
The US industry will continue with this business.
While France will sell its advanced reactors, which they claim is secure.
The only thing that can get me to understand, is to go to the power plant.
Cameras revealed a third, powerful explosion in the building of reactor 2.
The walls are all but a portion of the reactor will have major injuries.
Tepco give up all hope of saving the situation.
They are considering evacuating all its employees.
Naoto Kan go to headquarters in Tokyo.
He forces top commander, Shimizu, to "not abandon ship."
To do so would mean uncontrolled meltdown of all reactors.
That would put the whole Japan's existence in jeopardy.
Emperor Akihito I am very concerned about the situation at the nuclear plant.
At lunchtime on March 16 speeches Emperor Akihito in a live broadcast.
It is the first time an emperor using television to speak directly to the people.
Some remember his father, Emperor Hirohito, dramatic radio address, -
- When he announced that the war was over.
Now fighting Japan for its people's lives, just as it did then.
Tepco, under pressure from the government, takes its decision.
Approximately 50 men are left to take care of the situation.
They work under extreme conditions.
Separated from the rest of the world, contaminated by radiation -
- Without news of family members affected by the tsunami.
They struggle to cool the reactors, and restore power and security systems.
Often they have to rely on luck.
I need to decide what to do, quickly.
Most foreign colleagues have already left the country or gone south.
Although I wanted to go back, is Tokyo's airports now closed or overflowing.
If the situation worsens, I'm safer here in the north.
Here I am protected by a mountain range. Not in Tokyo or Osaka.
Maybe the wind will cause the radioactive cloud there.
US drones are discovering that water in the pool for spent fuel -
- On top of the reactor 4 evaporates.
The spent fuel rods are just brought out, and is still hot.
They are likely to be exposed.
Naoto Kan orders military helicopters to dump water taken directly from the sea.
A high water level in the pool must be maintained at all costs.
There is no structure, as in the reactor, which can prevent the demerger.
Over reactor 4 becomes helicopters exposed to very large doses of radiation.
Strong winds prevents pilots from making the necessary maneuvers.
The only option is to use powerful water cannons directly at the pools.
A maneuver that many consider to be desperate.
Naoto Kan Former. Prime Minister, we have decided to evacuate people who lived 20 km from the power plant in Fukushima Daiichi.
Earthquake, tsunami, nuclear fallout ...
This is the area that has been exposed to all three.
GPS is not gone mad. It shows roads that no longer exist.
Now we are two kilometers from the Fukushima Daiichi.
The nuclear power plant that threatens Japan and throughout the world.
Here is the power plant. I'd better run away, otherwise they will stop me.
It seems that the situation improves.
The water level in the pool 4 suddenly increases again.
The radiation level begins to decrease.
One can not approach the reactors.
But the workers can go into the control room without serious risk.
Towards the end of March 2011 will bring seawater replaced with distilled water.
But the cooling system is no longer waterproof.
The use of sea water as well as fresh water stabilizes reactors.
But it also results in emissions of over 11,000 tons of radioactive water into the sea.
This arouses strong concern abroad.
The accident is rated at the highest level of INES scale.
Most national media -
- Begins to accuse the prime minister of irresponsible handling of the crisis.
Naoto Kan resigned as Japanese Prime Minister -
- In agreement with the opposition.
First he had secured incentives for renewable energy development.
The director of the power plant in Fukushima Daiichi, Masao Yoshida, has gone off.
He is in hospital and get emergency medical treatment.
He is being replaced by the new director, Takeshi Takahashi.
Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda announced that the reactor would reach cold shutdown.
Today closed Japan, officially due. "Required emergency maintenance", -
- The last of the 54 nuclear reactors in operation.
The new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, will return to nuclear power.
The old power plants be reopened and work resumed on the unfinished construction.
The government's decision leading to protests across the country.
Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant
Follow me.
ACT II THE INVISIBLE ENEMY
TODAY
Were you afraid to die?
As you know, I went on the 15th to TEPCO headquarters.
It was a tragic situation.
TEPCO management considered evacuating the plant and leave it to its fate.
I was furious. I told the bosses that such a thing was unthinkable.
At hele Japan var i fare.
Instead we had to endure to the very end, to avoid tragedies.
It concerned all. Us politicians, TEPCO executives, the military -
- Fire brigade and police. Everyone.
This is the control room for emergencies.
My name is Takeshi Takahashi.
I took over as director here in December 2011, after my predecessor Masao Yoshida.
First, I apologize to the people of the world -
- For damage caused this accident.
Apologies plays a major role in Japanese culture.
Also TEPCO CEO Shimizu has apologized.
But excuses their has not been accepted.
As so often, it was only a formal apology.
They have not claimed responsibility.
In fact the rain Tepco event somsotegai, meaning "unpredictable".
In their opinion could no foreseen a 14 meter high tsunami.
How can a living in fear that one's children get cancer, leukemia, -
- Because it has bought the contaminated milk carton?
The Japanese, left to itself, organizes itself.
New associations, solidarity groups and autonomous enterprises look soon born.
Full body scans and food analysis being undertaken on their own initiative.
In some private houses arranged "home markets" on weekends.
Mothers gather to buy products from crops far away.
From provinces that are considered safe.
Also, because e-commerce is increasing dramatically. And it also increases fraud.
Matmerkingsskandale grows
In a country where people left their stuff unattended on the street -
- Where you left money for products, people no longer trust.
Especially not to the authorities.
This is the most serious and hidden corollary injury after Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster.
The loss of this harmony, courtesy and equanimity, as the Japanese kallerwa.
Not to mention deaths caused by broken hearts, depression and stress.
And suicide in a desperate situation, or planned.
For Japan pays insurers, and it is good, in suicide cases.
There are many complex procedures.
The most difficult is the removal of solidified lava -
- From the reactors had melted down.
It is an operation that has never been attempted before.
We know that one of the biggest problems is the huge amount of contaminated water.
It contains a large number of radionuclides.
To deal with this increasing amount of water we have built some great thoughts.
And we are building more.
There is another kind of repository in connection with nuclear energy:
It gjelderhinansha. Nuclear refugees.
Everyone who lives here is from Osaka.
There would be a few hundred people.
Then there were thousands of people.
And then hundreds of thousands.
People who have had to leave their homes and their fields. Roots.
Maybe forever. Now they have to live in these temporary houses.
A nightmare. Almost worse than radiation.
This was what happened to my friend Yoshida and his family.
The government wants us to move back home.
But we must wait for the result of decontamination.
Everything depends on the result.
Do you hear me? 1, 2, 3 ... Test.
Asami is a young, brave freelance journalist.
All the time she struggled to find out what the situation really was.
She has accompanied us several times in the forbidden zone.
She presents us Matsumoto, a local leader who obtain Tepco labor.
He is willing to hide us in his car by the growing number of checkpoints.
The first days were you advised to move into the restriction zone.
Now it is strictly prohibited.
But we can not stop. We will break the ban.
We are convinced that in such cases -
- Have the journalists not only right, but also a duty.
Also because restriction zone exerts a special, almost perverse attraction for us.
There is still life here. But a life ... that smells like death.
The first days in May after two months of guilty forgetfulness -
- The government has submitted its dreadful judgment.
Respect. livestock of "first class", cats, dogs, rabbits and hamsters -
- Owners can now go to retrieve them.
Have they survived, they can bring them to special centers.
There they studied before, who knows when, can be given back to their rightful owners.
Okuma Machi, a few kilometers from the Fukushima power plant.
A city which is now a ghost town.
Only a few dogs and cats have survived here.
A group of Japanese people come sometimes here to feed them.
For all other animals, pigs, cows, chickens, sheep and horses -
- Expecting the Japanese media call "a sweet death".
The government has decided that they should get lethal injections.
But before anyone decides who will perform this -
- Door these poor, surviving animals one by one from starvation.
Under horrendous suffering. They become useless compost for a useless land.
The government has decided that sites with values â€‹â€‹above 1 microsieverts per hour -
- Is uninhabitable. This is the value that determines the limits of restriction zone.
Earlier corresponded an area within a radius of 20 km from the nuclear power plant.
In a new resolution was thresholds set again based on pollution levels.
But without taking into account additional polluted areas.
They are scattered, even outside the 20km limit.
Here it is often very high values, which are incompatible with human life.
3, 2, 1, 0 ... Now! Over!
The radiation is higher than the dosimeter capacity of 1 millisievert.
Perhaps it is best we leave here immediately.
There comes a bus.
These are people who lived in the area.
They have just an hour on it. They do not have time.
-Good day. Excuse me. -You're welcome.
These are some of the displaced persons. Homeowners.
The government has given them an hour to go in and retrieve their most important assets -
- That they left behind when they fled.
Also hospital in Futaba was abandoned in haste.
Why are there so many beds outside, and so many wheelchairs?
Because in a few days, patients were left to themselves.
After a few days, patients were carried out here in their beds.
Unfortunately it is said that some of them died during transport.
As far as I remember, died 14 of them.
Unfortunately, the situation has worsened in the past.
Not like the first days, when we were talking about how honest the Japanese are.
In addition to burglary in the houses they have now started to rob ATMs.
Here we are in one of the limited open supermarkets.
This is the ATM.
It is emptied. It is completely overturned.
-Could You see the ocean from here before? No, we could not.
Great grandfather was buried here.
Dad is there.
Here is my grandfather's grandfather.
Masao Yoshida, Fukushima power plant courageous director, dies.
He succumbs to an incurable disease.
By facing Tepco and spray seawater into the reactor -
- Has he really saved the country.
Nuclear power makes the future bright
ACT III MIRACLE
In 1954, when rivalry with the Soviet Union increased, and the world was divided into two blocks -
- Performing US Department of Defense a secret experiment.
Codenamed was Castle Bravo.
The experiment was a nuclear test a hydrogen bomb.
US scientists miscalculated. They underestimated the explosion strength.
It was three times as strong as expected.
Den japanske fiskerbÃ¥ten Daigo Fukuryu Maru var i nÃ¦rheten.
It was hit by radioactive fallout.
The 23 fishermen had immediately transported to hospital.
Kuboyama Aikichi, radiooperatÃ¸r om bord, -
- Died a few months later of acute radiation syndrome.
Radio and television interrupted broadcasts to spread the news.
Traces of radioactivity were found in tuna caught in the Pacific.
This forced the culprit to come forward and admit the truth.
Soon, due. fear of radiation, spreading panic spread.
Since then, the Japanese people categorically rejected nuclear power.
The US government, worried about anti-American and anti-nuclear attitudes in Japan -
- A country they saw as an important military and economic base, took action.
It made use of all Japanese communication media -
- And used words like "peace," "justice" and "security" to promote nuclear power.
War criminal Shoriki Matsutaro was suddenly reinstated by the Americans.
He was in the meantime become a powerful lobbyist and media mogul -
- And played now a very important role.
He was a great admirer of American culture.
He believed that the country's economic prosperity -
- Depended on the friendship with the United States.
Through newspaper Yomiuri Shimbun and its own private TV channel Nippon Television -
- He launched an effective campaign for nuclear power.
In a few years he defeated anti-nuclear movement in the country.
He convinced the majority that support nuclear power was not only wise, -
- But absolutely necessary.
In 1954 carried President Eisenhower campaign "Atoms for Peace", -
- To delete the memory of the bombing of Japan.
After two years it held a symposium on nuclear power.
Symbolically enough took place in Hiroshima.
Matsutaro was elected head of the new Nuclear Commission.
Construction of the country's first nuclear power plant was soon announced.
How was the country that probably would have been the last thing in the world to accept nuclear power -
- One of nuclear's strongest and most convinced supporters.
There are several thousand "atomsigÃ¸ynere" nuclear power plants seasonal workers.
They are instantly recognizable. They seem distracted, almost absentmindedly.
But they see one. They get one to understand that they have something to say.
And they have, if one seeks them in the small taverns around nuclear power plants.
They get 3-400 dollars a day for being contaminated.
But after the agency and the contractors get their share, they are left with very little.
In Fukushima they constitute almost 90 percent of the workforce.
And resists most of the radiation.
To earn more falsifies some of them dosimetermÃ¥lingene -
- Or working twice, under a different name.
A desperate move to make ends meet at any cost.
There is supposedly a tradition. I heard about it by Kenji Higuchi.
A photographer who became famous in the 70s for its reports inside the nuclear power plant.
Kenji Higuchi Photographer I never accepted the idea that in order to produce power must hurt people.
"Ren energi", sa de. Bare lÃ¸gn.
Previous prime minister, Kan, would discontinue nuclear power.
But Abe announced that he would start up the reactors again.
Terrible. It is more than irresponsible.
Here's the situation: We can not build nuclear power plants here anymore.
So what do we do now? We sell our technology to other countries.
This is not about producing power. It's just about making money.
Middle of the night I called my boss of General Electric, and said:
Dale Bridenaugh Prev. engineer in General Electric "I recommend that we say that GE not kanstÃ¸tte continued operation of these plants."
And my boss said: "It can not be that bad, Dale."
"Remember, if we have to close all these early plants ..."
"Then it probably sluttenpÃ¥ GE's nuclear business forever."
You must not open the windows.
Do not take any pictures, and not film anything.
Almost every window in this building was destroyed by hydrogen explosion in Unit 1.
The reactor building was badly damaged. The entire building is covered.
I lurk on how the triple nedsmeltingen at Fukushima Daiichi -
- Could be kept secret for over two months, in a country like Japan.
I am convinced that the experts, insiderne, was aware of it.
But no one, especially not Tepco, would use the word "meltdown".
"Damage to the reactors' ... It was a play on words.
It kept the on in two months.
And finally, in May, they used the correct word.
Reactor 2 building is the only one that is still whole.
However, it is the source of the dangerous radioactive leak.
The explosion in the building damaged the foundations of the reactor.
It caused flooding in different rooms and underground pipes.
Every day flows hundreds of tons of radioactive water into the ocean.
Where is the core? At what stage happens meltdown?
Three years after the accident, no one knows.
Tepco do not know, the media do not know. Not even robots nears.
What is Kan's perception, as an engineer?
We now know for sure that the core layer a hole in the metal foundation of the cylinder -
- And continued all the way out.
Everything is here, in the report of the government's investigation committee.
Because of the radiation, no, not even the robots get close enough -
- To find out how much concrete that separates solidified lava from the ground and akviferne.
Cisterns that collect hundreds of thousands of tons of radioactive liquid -
- Is no longer sufficient.
There are leaks everywhere. It seeps into the ground.
Some would rather throw everything overboard.
For fishing in the area is already destroyed, and the Pacific is so vast.
But no one has an overview of the long term effects.
Radioactive substances infiltrating the food chain.
They gather at the top, where we are, with our debates and our fears.
The machines, vehicles and tanks that were swept away, is still in the area.
The tsunami that hit the area, was 15 meters high.
The building to the right was heavily damaged by the tsunami.
When the earthquake came, we did not this temporary wall.
So this area was hit directly by the tsunami.
Everything takes place inside the bus. TEPCO people will not let us film.
They interrupt constantly, and speaks through a loudspeaker ...
It is unclear what the problem is. The plant are not in operation.
There is no danger of terrorism. There is only a risk of information.
So where is this reactor?
Where's the new building? -Hundre Meters the road.
-We Would like to see it. -We Go on foot. All right?
If you will not follow my orders, you can just go! Understood ?!
I just asked. I ask only for information ...
But later information from workers who were admitted by leaders -
- And then confirmed by specific examples in Kurokawa report of 640 pages -
- Describes a man-made disaster.
We need to look at the building next av reactor no. 4, to fots.
We persuaded them. First they would not, but now we see it.
Stay on the left side, and not go to the right!
They are all a little nervous and hysterical.
Kurokawa report shows that the direct causes of the accident was predictable -
- Before 11 March 2011.
Tepco was too quick when they claimed that the tsunami was the cause of the accident.
And that the earthquake did not do any harm.
The direct intervention of the Prime Minister's office, -
- Including Prime Minister Kan's visit to the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, -
- Disrupted the chain of command and created disorder in an already threatening situation.
The accident was the result of a conspiracy between government, -
- Commissions and Tepco, and the lack of leadership from all parties page.
With his performance, they betrayed Japan's right to security in relation to nuclear hazards.
All are guilty. No one is guilty. Just like in war.
If there is no guilt, there is no responsibility.
And there is no sin if there is no remorse.
Finally, we are in front of reactor 4.
Here it is still very high radiation above 1,500 microsieverts.
Just before the accident was performed routine maintenance.
It consisted of the replacement of the spent fuel, the reactor 4.
At this maintenance must flood the space above the reactor.
So the water level is the same as in the pool that contains the new fuel.
When the cooling system failed, there was only water in the room above reactor 4.
While in the pool next door were all the incandescent fuel rods themselves.
They got water in the pool to boil.
If you had let the fuel remain unmet, we will have another meltdown -
- But this time outdoors.
If that had happened, the consequences would have been overwhelming.
Tokyo would have been completely overthrown.
The reason why this meltdown did not take place, has long been a mystery.
Only after several months we realized that, thanks to the Commission of Inquiry.
Increased pressure in the reactor pool ruined gate valve -
- That separates the reactor pool from the fuel pool.
Thus flooded water into the fuel pool next door.
Was not the door been broken, would pool water continued to evaporate.
Then we would have had a meltdown after a very short time.
Tokyo was rescued by chance.
The myth of nuclear power, it is economical, safe and clean, is swept away.
The disaster has forced Japan to -
- To decide a question that many other countries have already answered.
The growing global energy demand shows that the road to renewable energy is important -
- But not sufficient in itself.
The dream of nuclear fusion, a perpetual source of energy -
- Clean energy for all, is still waiting for us on the other side of the story.
Fukushima's heroes was not enough.
An even greater disaster was avoided because a gate valve collapsed.
We were saved because, by some miracle, the technology countries -
- There was something that did not work.