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I'm Sarah Green.

I'm talking today with Charles Casto, recently retired of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory

Commission.

He was the lead executive supporting the Japanese government following the earthquake and tsunami in Fukushima in 2011.

And he's the co-author of an article in our July-August issue about a Fukushima nuclear plant,

but probably not the one you've heard of.

Chuck, thanks so much for talking with us today.

Good afternoon, Sarah, thank you.

So the Fukushima nuclear power plant that most of us know about is Daiichi, which lost power and

subsequently suffered a meltdown. But the article is in fact about its

sister plant, Dianeee, which survived thanks in part to good luck but also in large measure to very

good management. So Chuck I was hoping we could just start our story of

Daini by talking a little bit about the scale of the disaster.

Certainly, Sarah.

Well, the earthquake itself was a 9.0.

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