An Earthquake and a Tsunami Hit Fukushima

It annoys me that Germany's response to Fukushima was to begin to ban nuclear power. Germany, a country far less prone to earthquakes than Japan. And they replaced it in large part with dirty coal.

I feel like I could watch hours of this guy lecturing ANYTHING.

As more of the details get found, it could have been mitigated if not prevented. 1. Tepco's own engineers had noted that the sea wall was not tall enough. Shot down by management. 2. Tepco's own engineers had recommended relocating the backup generators so they would not be on the lowest elevation on site. Management did not follow this, wishing to keep it to the original GE design from 1969. 3. Three Mile Island had taught us that the Hydrogen could be mitigated with equipment like catalytic hydrogen burners, which were added to many other plants around the world, but ignored by Tepco.

I was living in Tokyo, Japan when the earthquake hit. I wish I had had such thoughtful, informative and calm explanations at the time.

We need more professors like this in the world.

You are such a fantastic teacher, thank you so much for this.

I wish I had a teacher like this, maybe I would have been more into siences

I like how a "Chernobyl core" is a unit of measurement.

This guy does a wonderful job of explaining complex systems.

I don’t know how I came across these videos. But I’m now watching them all. This professor is fantastic.

I certainly wish my teachers in college were as energetic and could explain technical terms in easy to understand and grasp. Perhaps I would have stayed an engineering major!

I have watched this and other examples of your videos on multiple occasions. Thanks for the making them interesting and informative.

By far the most accurate and reasonable assessment of the Fukushima disaster. So much disinformation out there on this topic. Glad to have found this channel.

I really like this guy because he cares about how the audience perceives what he is expounding on. If he was the Engineer involved in the shuttles rocket boosters of the Challenger shuttle and he presented his findings on the seal mechanics I guarantee they would have postponed the launch.

Thank you so much for the video. Excellent explanation of what happened!

love the vids, thanks for posting.

This guy is awesome. I wish I would've had a teacher like this when I was in school.

Westinghouse built the plant as a package with the standard layout they use everywhere. Reactors at back, then turbines , then transformers , then cooling pumps and finally back up generators. That puts the most important safety backups in the most risk of seaward flooding. It's well know that tsunamis are common in the area and the Japanese know exactly how damaging they really are. All PWR reactors are vulnerable to loss of coolant, so management really should have heeded their engineer's warnings and at least moved the back up pumps and generators.

You always, ALWAYS make your videos very interesting, Professor!

Great explanation. Keep up the great work.