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The Emergency Management Group is focused on disaster response, management and prevention in Japan.

The mission of the Japan Emergency Management group is to enable disaster prevention, response and solutions for Japan.

Members

Maeryn Obley mdmcdonald

Email address for group

emergency-management-japan@m.resiliencesystem.org

TEPCO - Fukushima Nuclear Accident Analysis Report (Summary) - June 20, 2012

      

Tokyo Electric Power Company, Inc. - June 20, 2012

This report supplements the December 2011 Interim Report with the addition of investigations and examinations carried out after the release of the Interim Report, from the following three perspectives:

In addition to the issues concerning and measures taken in regard to the facilities as written in the Interim Report, issues concerning and measures taken in regard to operations have also been added;

Items for which investigations had not yet been completed at the time of the release of the Interim Report have been added; and

Further investigation was conducted on the issues in question and added to the report.

・In this report, TEPCO has made an effort to learn from what it experienced as a party to this accident and from the compiled data, and has summarized the manifestation of the facts investigated, the causes leading to core damage, and measures for prevention. These will steadily be applied to the nuclear power stations it owns.

Fukushima Disaster “a Profoundly Man-Made Disaster”: Investigative Commission

submitted by Luis Kun

Homeland Security News Wire - July 5, 2012

Executive Summary - Slideshare

Executive Summary - (88 page .PDF file)

NAIIC Report

The commission investigating the Fukushima disaster of March 2011 concluded that although the combination of the tsunami and earthquake was unprecedented in its ferocity, the disaster was largely man-made because it was amplified by what came before it and what followed it. The disaster itself, the Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission, said was sandwiched by practices and conduct which were the result of government-industry collusion and the worst conformist conventions of Japanese culture.

IIGR (International Institute of Global Resilience) Forum Event

IIGR FlyerFlyer for the IIGR Forum Event Meeting.

IIGR is pleased to announce its first symposium event on Sunday, July 8th 2012: 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM,  Topaz House, Top Floor, 4400 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814.
    
Forum Theme: "3.11: Japan's First Responder perspectives on the disaster events in Fukushima"

Forum Presenters:

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