Yoichi Funabashi

In this Nov. 12, 2011 file photo, workers in protective suits and masks wait to enter the emergency operation center at the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station in Okuma, Japan.

Author Yoichi Funabashi on Fukushima crisis 10 years later: Nuclear energy was and still is 'unforgiving'

Yoichi Funabashi, one of Japan’s most imminent journalists and author of a new book titled "Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis," told The World that there was a lack of emergency training for that critical scenario faced on March 11, 2011. 

Author Yoichi Funabashi on Fukushima crisis 10 years later: Nuclear energy was and still is 'unforgiving'
A sign reading "Nuclear Power - The Energy for a Better Future" hangs over a street in the town of Futaba, inside the 12-mile radius exclusion zone around Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in a 2012 photo.

One lesson of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is that Japan's culture needs to change

One lesson of the Fukushima nuclear meltdown is that Japan's culture needs to change

New report says Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster narrowly avoided being much worse

New report says Japan's 2011 nuclear disaster narrowly avoided being much worse
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Fukushima Report: Japan Dodged Major Nuclear Disaster

Fukushima Report: Japan Dodged Major Nuclear Disaster