10 years of the Great East Japan Earthquake
Naoto Gan
On March 12, 2011, the day after the Great East Japan Earthquake, at 3:36 pm, white smoke soared with an explosion sound from Unit 1 of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. As the emergency power of the nuclear power plant was lost due to the tsunami, a meltdown occurred in which the fuel rod melted, and the hydrogen gas produced reacted with water, causing an explosion.
At that time, Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan (菅直人, photo) watched TV at 5 pm that day and learned of the hydrogen explosion at the nuclear power plant. Tokyo Electric Power did not report to the Prime Minister either. In the 10th year of the Great East Japan Earthquake, former Prime Minister Kan (currently a member of the House of Representatives), who met at the Tokyo House of Representatives on the 4th, said, “Tokyo Electric Power’s concealment of information continues.”
Ten years after the Great East Japan Earthquake. Graphic = Reporter Park Kyung-min [email protected]
“The Fukushima accident at the time was a human resource,” said former Prime Minister Kan. The prime minister’s words were a lie to host the Olympics,” he criticized. “The disaster in Fukushima continues even now. Contaminated water continues to occur at nuclear power plants, and debris (melted nuclear fuel) accumulated in nuclear power plants 1, 2 and 3 has high levels of radioactivity and cannot be touched. It is not known whether it will take 50 or 100 years for the nuclear power plant to be properly repaired.”
“The primary causes of the (Fukushima accident) were earthquakes and tsunamis, but if the reserve generators were installed on a high ground instead of underground, there would have been no power loss due to the tsunami. Even though it is a country with frequent earthquakes and tsunamis, it was not prepared during the design process. In that sense, it can be seen as a talent.”
Tokyo = Correspondent Lee Young-hee and Yoon Seol-young [email protected]
