The Heroic Mission to Save Fukushima Daini

Japan Nuclear Fuel CEO Masuda Naohiro was superintendent of Fukushima Daini when the 3/11 disaster struck.

Mishima Takaki, today the Fukushima Daini superintendent, was the power station’s operations manager 10 years ago.

The tsunami flowed up alongside the reactor building. (Edited image courtesy of TEPCO Holdings)

Masuda directing his team at the crisis room. (Edited image courtesy of TEPCO Holdings)

Masuda recalls the dramatic events of March 11.

Inoue Takashi, then a safety officer at Fukushima Daini.

A team of 200 laid cables to restore reactor cooling. (Photo taken September 2020)

On the grounds of the Daini plant you can still see where the cable was laid a decade ago. (Photo taken September 2020)

The Fukushima Daini nuclear plant. Unlike at the Daiichi plant, the reactor buildings are still intact.