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2015 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant: The Moment of “Safety Myth” Collapses

Authors : Aki Nakanishi, Toshio Takagi, Hajime Ushimaru, Masato Yotsumoto, Daisuke Sugihara

Published in: Human-Computer Interaction: Users and Contexts

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This study examines the conversations and actions of the operators and managers of the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) on March 11, 2011, when Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant (1F) suffered a “severe accident” due to the Great East Japan Earthquake and the subsequent tsunami. Using the archives from TEPCO’s videoconference system, we conducted a network and content analysis of discussions and steps that were taken on the cutting edge of organizational crises. Staff members at the various sites (1F operators and managers, as well as employees at Headquarters and the Offsite Center) used different vocabulary, which meant they could not build a shared organizational reality of the ongoing crisis.

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When the water level reaches the Top of Active Fuel (TAF), the fuel is exposed and the probability of meltdown increases.
 
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Everyday conversation is usually casual and random, but prior discussions influence current speech, which in turn affects future discourse. Grant et al. (2004) called this phenomenon “interdiscursivity”.
 
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Tamara is a play by John Krizanc, first performed on May 8, 1981 in Toronto, Canada. In Tamara, the audience fragments into small groups that chase characters from one room to the next, from one floor to the next, even going into bedrooms, kitchens, and other rooms in order to co-create the stories that interest them the most. If there are a dozen stages and a dozen storytellers, the number of story lines an audience could trace as it follows the wandering discourses of Tamara is a 12 factorial (Krizanc & Boje 2006, p. 70).
 
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Metadata
Title
Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant: The Moment of “Safety Myth” Collapses
Authors
Aki Nakanishi
Toshio Takagi
Hajime Ushimaru
Masato Yotsumoto
Daisuke Sugihara
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Human-Computer Interaction: Users and Contexts

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-21005-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-21006-3

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21006-3_34