Kenichi Ohmae - Lessons Learned From Fukushima Dai-ichi - Report & Movie

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http://www.kohmae.com/en/entry/book/20120409243/

Press Release - What should we learn from the severe accident at the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant?

Lessons Learned From Fukushima Dai-ichi - Report & Movie
http://pr.bbt757.com/eng/

Author
Kenichi Ohmae (BBT University President)

PDF Report
Press Release ⇒ pressrelease_111028.pdf
BWR & Interim Report ⇒ interimrepo_111028.pdf
PWR & Final Report ⇒ finalrepo_111225.pdf

PDF Report (Appendix)
Appendix-1 (BWR: Chronology) ⇒ apdx_chronology_and_power-loss.pdf
Appendix-2 (PWR: Applicability) ⇒ apdx_applicability_to_pwp.pdf

Youtube Movie (English Subtitles)
Press Release ⇒ youtube .com/watch?v=MKN3bggza5I (about 30min.)
Detailed Description ⇒ youtube .com/watch?v=y1pHimEuNpM (about 120min.)
Final Report ⇒ youtube .com/watch?v=R3sSmLPwj6c(about 75min.)
Summary ⇒ youtube .com/watch?v=L-DoX-XQvag(about 15min.)

entry date: 04 09 ,2012

The videos are in Japanese with optional English captions and interactive transcript.

To turn on the closed captions, press the CC button at the bottom of the video;
an option menu will display, click anywhere else to use the defaults and hide the menu.

To turn on the interactive transcript, hover the mouse over the icons below the video,
one of them will show alt text "Interactive Transcripts", click that icon.

The intereactive transcript is not visible in the embedded player, only the actual youtube page.
(I had to put a space in the youtue links because the DU software was embedding all four videos into the post.)

Here's examples from a different video, with the CC and Transcript buttons circled in red:

http://www.mura.org/2012/03/tuesday-tips-nifty-youtube-features/

Tuesday Tips: Nifty YouTube Features

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1. An article of his in Japan Times newspaper: "Fukushima: Probability theory is unsafe"

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/eo20120418a4.html

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Fukushima: Probability theory is unsafe

By KENICHI OHMAE
Special to The Japan Times

A year has now passed since the complete core meltdowns of three boiling water reactors at Tokyo Electric Power Co.'s Fukushima No. 1 plant. Because of the limited and biased information issued by the Japanese government, the world does not know what really happened when the earthquake and the tsunami hit the six Fukushima nuclear reactors. There are many important lessons that must be learned to avoid a future disaster. These lessons can be applied to all the nuclear reactors globally. People around the world deserve the right to know what happened.

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 (pr.bbt757.com/eng/)

Here are the highlights of my findings:

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The Japanese Government did not admit to the meltdown until three months later, nor did they admit to the damage to the containment vessels until a half year later. Our government tried to hide this important information for some reason, though judging from the amount of fission material released and from the size of the hydrogen explosion, the meltdown of the entire core was undeniable for anyone who has studied reactor engineering.

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Assumptions and probability are for the theoretical dreamers. If you have a hot reactor, submerged in water and this reactor is without the power to circulate the coolant that can shut it down, then you have to find another way to cool it no matter what. If you have lost your last resort of power and heat sink, you should not have taken on the responsibility to operate a nuclear plant in the first place. That is the lesson of Fukushima.

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Kenichi Ohmae — an MIT-trained nuclear engineer who is also a well-known management consultant — is dean of Business Breakthrough University. He was a founder of McKinsey & Co.'s strategic consulting practice and is the author of many books including "The Borderless World."

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2. That seems to be a longer version of a previous article

published in the Christian Science Monitor and posted here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/112711222

The replies by anti-science pro-nukes in that thread are nothing but bizarre,
claiming that the reactor core designer is an anti-nuke who doesn't understand probablity, etc.

[kristopher]

4. Thanks for the OP.

I didn't think of looking for his website.

As to the anti-science pronuke sentiment:

US (Republican) House spending bill would cut DOE renewables, boost nuclear
Washington (Platts)--25Apr2012/448 pm EDT/2048 GMT

The US House Appropriations Committee on Wednesday passed on to the full chamber a Department of Energy spending bill that would cut $345 million from the agency's fiscal 2013 budget, providing it with $26.1 billion, and would shift emphasis from renewable energy and energy efficiency to fossil fuels and nuclear power.

"While the decisions involved were difficult ... I am proud that this committee will be the tip of the spear in helping to restore sustainability to the agency budgets within this bill," said Representative Hal Rogers, the committee chairman and a Kentucky Republican....

http://www.platts.com/RSSFeedDetailedNews/RSSFeed/ElectricPower/6224880

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3. Thanks to Bennyboy for bringing it to my attention

in his post last week: "Today's FUKU News..." http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1127&pid=12543
which has additional links and information.