Lessons gleaned from nuclear disaster

Tepco Decommissioning Archive Centre vice-director Shuichi Nakazato taking visitors on a tour of the centre.
Tepco Decommissioning Archive Centre vice-director Shuichi Nakazato taking visitors on a tour of the centre. PHOTO: SHEFALI REKHI
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The two-storey building with a simple facade in Tomioka-machi in Fukushima prefecture, known as the Tepco Decommissioning Archive Centre, gives no hint of the complex array of displays within.

A massive screen in a theatre-style setting reminds visitors of the troubling episode of the triple disasters in 2011: a 9.1-magnitude earthquake, tsunami and nuclear-fuel meltdown.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on February 04, 2020, with the headline Lessons gleaned from nuclear disaster. Subscribe