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# On the Brink: The Inside Story of Fukushima Daiichi Paperback – December 25, 2019

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unique and sobering bottom-up perspective
*by R***L on August 31, 2022*

If we can be sure of anything about nuclear disasters and near-misses, it’s that reality at every step is always worse than what we hear from proponents, regulators and media. There are systematic reasons for this, but the thrust of this book is a refreshingly human first person story, with just enough straightforward technical explanation to make sense of what was actually happening on the scene.If we had an equally insightful account of what has occurred in the following ten years it would be another “ten times worse” .

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Good detailed account of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant disaster from the plant superintendent.
*by P***F on March 4, 2015*

Concentrating on the activities of the superintendent of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant, Masao Yoshida, from the events of the earthquake until cancer caused him to go on sick leave from his duties after the plants were "subdued" with seawater injections and drenches, this is a detailed and riveting account of the hours and days following the events of 3.11.There hasn't been a book like this published yet so far - most have been simple overviews from news media sources followed by pundits talking about legislative or sociological themes. This book covers the events on the ground, and in the control room, from those struggling to deal with the reactors, in the face of daunting physical conditions and unbelievably incompetent company and government management. As an example, these people had little food and water (not enough to drink, much less decontaminate) and even the masks and suits needed to do repairs were running extremely short. When the Prime Minister chose to visit, he interrupted their efforts to get the reactors under control. The fire engines that arrived to cool one of the units sat for an hour and a half while the cores melted further while the P.M. was sent off in his helicopter. His staff and TEPCO insisted the plant provide safety gear for him, rather than him bringing it for him OR FOR THEM, even though they had not enough for their own repair efforts. Even as the operators were disconnecting and reconnecting car batteries to get control room instrument readings, (to save the batteries) the TEPCO staff were criticizing them for failing to keep them updated.I had a lot of larger questions after this, in that if they could air lift the PM in by helicopter, why not protective gear, batteries, generators, compression pumps, even food and water. Once the station lost both landline power and the generators, and they knew they only had a few hours of battery power, the company and government should have focused on getting them power. Rather than the local personal scavenging for car batteries in vehicles and local stores. TEPCO management off site was very ineffectual. And the government at least at some junctures, actually hindered the efforts to stop the core meltdown and hydrogen explosions, rather than help.It's obvious from the book that the operators themselves were dedicated to the point of risking their lives. They also disobeyed orders when orders from company management and the government were clearly wrong. But there was an amazing disconnect of purpose, on both sides, after this catastrophe. I don't think it is unique to Japan, though I think cultural distinctions and propriety made them more reluctant to challenge and demand what they needed in an emergency, and left many solutions in the hands of lower level people taking initiative, then good management and procedures instigated from the top down, and the government lending resources in a crisis that affected its citizenry.This book has faults - it tends to ramble after the health issues that caused Yoshida to leave the action. Then it concentrates on his health issues and the fate of the two workers who drowned in Unit 4 during the tsunami at a later point in the book. It thus leaves the final status of the plant murky, as if the author didn't have the same access to others as to Yoshida. This is clearly his story. Still, the first 3/4 of the book is a fascinating account of details that aren't readily available from any other source to date.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ On the Brink
*by P***  on August 2, 2023*

I purchased this book after watching Netflix’s The Days, which did an excellent job of focusing on the people who risked their lives to prevent a major meltdown at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. “On the Brink” expands brilliantly on the courage and sacrifice of the 2000+ workers who stayed on the ground at Fukushima for weeks after the massive earthquake and Tsunami fatally damaged the plant. The book also adds important details not covered by the Netflix program. An excellent read.

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