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Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station Accident

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 3 –33

[Let us start with the scientific and engineering basis of the severe accident analysis carried out before the Fukushima nuclear accident. In particular, the accident of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Station (TMI) had given a comprehensive view when the severe accident took place due to a...

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Fukushima Daiichi Unit 1, 2 and 3 Accidents

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 35 –122

[The Fukushima nuclear power station comprises six power plants, out of which, Unit 1 to Unit 3 were under operation, Unit 4 was under shroud exchange work, and Unit 5 and 6 were out of operation for scheduled maintenance on the day of the accident. This Chapter deals with the essence of this...

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Fukushima Daiichi Unit 4 Accident

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 123 –132

[The Unit 4 was out of operation for shroud exchange work, but it made a mysterious hydrogen explosion in the Unit 4 reactor building. It was about 5 months later that the TEPCO staff found a clear evidence of this mystery. The Unit 3 and the Unit 4 plant shares an exhaust stack for release to...

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Release of Radioactive Materials and the Evacuation of Residents

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 135 –157

[This chapter discusses with the relation between the release of the radioactivity and the resident evacuation. The first half devoted to a precise, comparative analysis of the time evolution of the released background radiation level measured at the site boundary which reflects the behavior of...

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Tsunami and Station Blackout

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 159 –174

[This Chapter discusses with the influence of the Tsunami and the station blackout. I intend to make in depth studies on why there were timing differences of the core melts and explosion as much as 2 days between the Units. Although the safety system of Unit 1 (IC) is different from those of...

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Reconstruction of Safety

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 175 –194

[In the safety design so far, the natural phenomenon is regarded as providing design condition, assuming worst maximum estimate based on the past experience. Only one exception is seismic design where scientific and technological in depth knowledge has been taken. We know no damage on major...

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Road to Decommissioning

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 195 –203

[This chapter deals with the recommendation on the decommissioning and the recovery of the Fukushima. On the basis of my experience as a leader of the decommissioning of the JPDR, the first power reactor in Japan, and knowing the status of the world reactors under decommissioning, I would make an...

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Outcome of the Study

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 205 –208

[In this chapter, major results of the studies are summarized on the subjects of each process of the core melts, hydrogen explosions, and integrated views on nuclear safety including radioactive contamination, evacuation, station blackout, the construction of the seawall, leading to the...

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New Insights Obtained from the Accident – To Commemorate the Publication of the English Edition

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 209 –218

[One year has passed since the Japanese version of this book was published in Japan. On the occasion of the publication of the English edition, I summarized the circumstances and events in the Fukushima accident, which were unprecedented for nuclear power stations worldwide, and reviewed what...

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At the End of This Study

Ishikawa, Michio

Pages: 219 –225

[These notes conclude my study. Whenever a new fact becomes clear, it should be studied and analyzed one by one, and I also hope that the parties engaged in nuclear power generation will compile their study results that supersede this book.]

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