Bibliography Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami stroke Discussion 2022

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On the 11th day of March 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami stroke a
humanitarian disaster in the North-East of Japan. This disaster initiated a severe nuclear accident
at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. In the plant, half of the six main reactors sustained
damages that lead to hydrogen and radioactive substance leakage in the atmosphere. As a result,
the released hydrogen exploded, damaging three reactor buildings hindering every effort of the
emergency response to controlling the damage. This incident was responsible for more than 15,
700 deaths, and over 2,100 people went missing. Besides, “there was severe damage to the
physical infrastructure that exceeded $300 billion”1. For this reason, significant economic losses,
widespread evacuation of the local population, and abrupt closure of all the nuclear power plants
in Japan became the immediate response to solving the crisis.
At the occurrence of the Fukushima Daiichi accident, the Blue Ribbon Commission of
the American Nuclear Future was in as assessment process on how to manage and spend nuclear
fuel and high-level radioactive wastes in the United States. A commission recommended that the
National Academy of Science conduct research and then come up with life lessons well scripted
from the accident2. These recommendations were then forwarded to the United States congress to
verify and shed more light on some of the necessary precautions. Concerning how to handle the
radioactive plans and minimize the chances of their breakdown.
A bold and remarkable step was taken by the Fukushima Daiichi plant personnel, who
responded with a lot of resilience in the course of the accident. This, to some extent, managed a
significant magnitude of the spread of radioactive materials. Due to excessive leakage and
1 Chaochun, Huang, Juneyuan Huang, and Mingte Hsu. "Lessons Learned from
Fukushima—Applied to Emergency Preparedness in Taiwan." In International Conference
Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference, (Springer, Singapore, 2016), 387.
2 Ashraf, Labia, and M. J. Harris. "Learning how to learn from failures: The Fukushima
nuclear disaster" (Engineering Failure Analysis 2015), 119.