One year hass passed since the events of Fukushima culminated in the ongoing nuclear debacle - only time , innovation and good fortune stand between unspeakable damage to the earth and all forms of life. Has Japan learned the from the errors of their way - how about the US. Has the US taken steps to deal with the 24 reactors located around the Us , near major cities , with the same design as was present at the ill fated Fukushima plant ? If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again with the hope of a different result , what do you call pretending and outcome can't occur / then observing the outcome actually come to pass and simply pretend what has happened won't happen again ?

Title: Interview with Kevin Kamps, Beyond Nuclear
Source: The Big Picture (RT)
Date: April 6, 2012

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Title: Lessons Learned From Fukushima Dai-ichi (1. Press Conference. 2011. 10. 28)
Author: Kenichi Ohmae, Nuclear engineer
Date Uploaded: Mar 21, 2012
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As a nuclear core designer and someone who earned a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in nuclear engineering, I volunteered to look into the situation at Fukushima No. 1 in June of 2011. Mr. Goushi Hosono, minister of nuclear power and environment, personally gave me access to the information and personnel who were directly involved in the containment operations of the postdisaster nuclear plants. After three months of investigation, I analyzed and wrote a long report detailing minute by minute how the nuclear reactors were actually disabled -Japan Times

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Kenichi Ohmae, Nuclear Engineer: This is sheet two. This chart shows equipment loss of all the nuclear reactors such as power supply of AC/DC.

Therefore, there may be many people with the impression that Fukushima Dai-ichi reactor 1 to 4 are in the most severe difficulties, but actually, other reactors are all in considerably severe condition with the external power, or emergency power devices.

The red marked devices are broken.

Regardless of such extreme situations, though not much has been broadcast, as you will find in the sheet, in all reactors except for one, two, three, and four of Fukushima Dai-ichi, cold shutdown occurred well until the end.

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Special thanks to: Ms Jewel Naruse Ms Seiko Toyama Mr. Curtis Hoffmann Ms Keiko Sato

 Read the final report here