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SUMMARY:Fukushima
DESCRIPTION:The word Fukushima is frightening.  Like the word Chernob
 yl.\r\n\r\nMarch 11, 2011\r\n\r\nIt's been ten years since a 9.1 magni
 tude earthquake and an ensuing tsunami with 30-foot-plus waves hit Jap
 an's east coast, causing a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi p
 ower plant. The plant was flooded with seawater and left without emerg
 ency power, leading to multiple explosions and the release of radioact
 ive contaminants.\r\n\r\nIn the immediate aftermath of the event, more
  than 150,000 people living within 20 kilometers of the facility or 10
  kilometers of a nearby sister plant, were evacuated and an exclusion 
 zone was established. The event is one of only two in history to be cl
 assified at the highest level of the International Nuclear Event Scale
  -- the other being Chernobyl, in 1986.\r\n\r\nRadiation contamination
  has left large swathes of land off limits, likely forever. But from 2
 016, some residents have made their way back to areas declared safe by
  the government.\r\n\r\nIt was not a shortlived one-day event, but was
  a string of days of nothing but bad news to a world that was unable t
 o do anything to help.  Sound engineering with solid planning in a re
 gion of the world known for earthquakes had been enveloped by a natura
 l disaster - and the common refrain of \"had we only placed the pumps 
 ten feet higher\" and had we only  . . . . . this and that\" and \"ha
 d we not built it here in the first place\" resounded in people's mind
 s.\r\n\r\nWe learn from Failures.  Failure of imagination and plannin
 g was not the problem.  Planning for a natural disaster was done - bu
 t nature sent something beyond anything that was expected.  That is o
 ften the case in those events we call \"disasters\".\r\n\r\nTechnology
  is wonderful.  And sometimes it isn't.  We should always consider w
 hat the limits of tech are.\r\n\r\nhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukus
 hima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster\r\n\n\nFor more information visit https:
 //agilephilly.ning.com/events/fukushima
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CATEGORIES:historical
LOCATION:Fukushima Japan
WEBSITE:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disast
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URL:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fukushima_Daiichi_nuclear_disaster
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