Encore: Meltdown at Fukushima | Pressure | 2

Against The Odds

Wondery

Cassie De Pecol, History, Society & Culture, Dolby, Mike Corey, Dolby Atmos, Atmos

4.7 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2024

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Crippled by a tsunami of unprecedented scale, one of the reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant is in danger of melting down. To save it, workers must do the unthinkable: Vent radioactive steam into the atmosphere, to avoid a larger catastrophe as explosive gasses build up inside the reactor core. And they must risk exposing themselves to dangerous levels of radiation to do it.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can listen to against the odds early in ad free right now.
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0:09.0	This episode originally aired in 2022.
0:13.0	Supervisory
0:17.0	Supervisory
0:21.0	Equal I Zawa stands at his desk in the dark control room shining his flashlight over a series of blueprints.
0:29.0	They show the inner workings of the reactors at theima Daiichi nuclear plant.
0:34.0	Right now, those reactors have no cooling water
0:38.0	flowing through them.
0:39.0	A dangerous situation.
0:41.0	Without water, the reactors could easily
0:43.2	overheat and melt down.
0:46.2	It's 6 p.m. on March 11, 2011.
0:49.9	It's been a little more than two hours since a tsunami wiped out all electrical power at the plant.
0:56.2	Isawa traces a finger across the blueprints. The pipes are like a labyrinth.
1:02.0	What about Val 13?
1:04.0	His deputy supervisor, Nubaru
1:06.0	Nubaru Homa shakes his head.
1:09.0	Too narrow.
1:10.0	We need more water than that.
1:12.0	Well, there's got to be something.
1:14.8	Isawa wants to divert water from the plant's fire hydrant system into the pipes that cool the
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