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Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown – PBS documentary

THE MEDIA DID NOT HYPE FUKUSHIMA…. New Yorker,  by Evan Osnos, March 1, 2012   “….. the new PBS “Frontline” documentary, “Inside Japan’s Nuclear Meltdown,” … . “We were lucky,” Iwakuma says. “Just lucky.”…. one of the clearest—and most troubling—lessons to be drawn from the Fukushima story: plain old luck, along with a colossal dose of heroism and quick-thinking, prevented the Fukushima nuclear meltdowns from wounding Japan even more thoroughly than they did. That is the lesson that comes through in several new projects appearing in preparation for the first anniversary of the tsunami and nuclear disaster.

The “Frontline” documentary by the filmmaker Dan Edge does an admirable job of recreating the mood of the crucial first days by locating workers who were involved, despite continued efforts by the power company to prevent them from talking… http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2012/03/the-media-did-not-hype-fukushima.html

March 2, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | Resources -audiovicual