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Meltdown: Oversights in the Reactor Cooling System

S15 · E6 · 23 Apr 2013 · 50 min

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Successive meltdowns of reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant resulted in significant nuclear contamination. How did the disaster unfold? NHK interviewed more than 400 people and conducted simulations based on volumes of data. Our independent investigation sheds new light on the accident 2 years after it occurred.