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'Sense of duty' prevented another Fukushima nuclear disaster

Michael Allan McCrae | April 02, 2012 | 6:59 pm Energy Asia Europe Uranium 

The Mainichi Daily News profiles Yanosuke Hirai, a technocrat in Japan, whose doggedness and sense of personal duty, compelled him to build a breakwater high enough to deflect the March 2011 tsunami and prevented the nucelar power plant at the...

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