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Lädt ... Fukushimavon Mark Willacy
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 When a force 9.0 earthquake rumbled into life about 70km off the east coast of Japan and 30km beneath the surface just before 3pm on March 11, 2011, it was the biggest in Japan's natural-disaster-dotted history and the fifth biggest earthquake in recorded history. The tidal wave it tilted landwards pushed 10 billion tonnes of seawater at a speed of 800km/h towards Japan's cluttered coastline. Hundreds of thousands of people stood in the way of this wall of water. So did the mute cooling towers and deadly contents of the Fukushima nuclear reactor. This was never going to end well. ... For Willacy, TEPCO is the chief villain. He unearths evidence that the company failed to act on its own warning systems, denied government officials access to data and updates, layered veils of misinformation and falsehoods over the Fukushima plant, withheld information and lied on its way to writing a new chapter in corporate infamy in an already bulging tome. Auszeichnungen
On 11 March 2011, Japan was rocked by the most violent earthquake in her history and one of the largest ever recorded. The quake itself was just the start of a chain of disastrous events, creating a massive tsunami that slammed the shores of north eastern Japan. Close to 20,000 people were killed or disappeared under waves that reached more than 40 metres high as they smashed their way several kilometres inland. Yet the greatest damage was caused when the tsunami surged over the seawall of Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power station, resulting in a multiple core meltdown that released vast quantities of radioactivity into the atmosphere and ocean. At one stage it even threatened the evacuation and irradiation of Tokyo itself, which would have spelt the end of Japan as we know it. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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The book narrates an hour by hour account of the events occurring inside the plant. It also tells the stories of a cross-section of the people living and working in and around the power plant, including a nuclear engineer (who spent days inside the plant after the tsunami), a pig farmer, a teacher, a fisherman, and so on. We learn of their lives before the event and how they cope after the event, each suffering different degrees of loss.
Willacy also was able to interview the Japanese prime minister while the events were on-going, and these interviews provide a chilling glimpse of just how unprepared the Japanese government and the power company were to deal with the situation. Indeed, their primary concern at first was to cover up just how serious the event was. This resulted in many people being exposed to much more radiation than they could have been, due to the failure to order evacuation in a timely manner, and also ordering evacuation in the wrong direction, i.e. to where the fallout was the most dense.
This book was published fairly soon after the tsunami. We know that the full extent of the damage is still unknown and ongoing. I'm going to try to find something more up-to-date, although that is not a criticism of this book, and I still recommend it. (