Fukushima, One Year After

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by Steven Cherry - spectrum.ieee.org - March 6, 2012

On the somber first anniversary, Japan still has a lot of work ahead.

This is part of IEEE Spectrum's ongoing coverage of Japan's earthquake and nuclear emergency. For more details on how Fukushima Dai-1's nuclear reactors work and what has gone wrong so far, see our explainer and our timeline.

Steven Cherry: Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum’s “Techwise Conversations.”

On the morning of March 11th last year, the hallways at Spectrum were already buzzing with the news that an earthquake and tidal wave had struck coastal Japan. It quickly became clear that Japanese authorities had a full-scale nuclear emergency on their hands, so the staff here put all hands on deck for what was obviously going to be the technology story of the year, as well as the humanitarian story of the year.

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