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The Post-Fukushima World: Lessons Learned, Energy Resources and Security
- Title:
- The Post-Fukushima World: Lessons Learned, Energy Resources and Security
- Presenter:
- Akira Tokuhiro
- Affiliations:
- Mechanical Engineering
- Date:
- 2012-10-09
- Academic Year:
- 2012/13
- Description:
- The Japanese Fukushima Dai-ichi and Dai-ni nuclear power station with four General Electric Boiling Water Reactors respectively co-located side-by-side on the north-central eastern coast of Japan withstood a 9.0 earthquake and a large-scale tsunami on March 11, 2011. All six units were constructed via a GE/Hitachi/Toshiba collaboration from 1967 to 1979. In spite of the immediate shut down of all units due to the earthquake, and decay heat cooling for 30-45 minutes, loss-of-offsite-power by the impact of the tsunami initiated an “beyond design basis (nuclear power plant) accident.” Several hydrogen explosions later, several core “meltdowns” and 1½ years since 3/11, the utility (TEPCO) and the Japanese Government are still dealing with a dramatic shift in the national energy portfolio and ‘recovery, restoration and remediation’ that may last up to 40 years. The colloquium will provide a quick perspective on the Fukushima natural disaster, the nuclear power plant accident and the potential global implications in coming years.
- Biography:
- Akira Tokuhiro is Professor of Mechanical and Director of the Nuclear Engineering Graduate Program in Idaho Falls. He has a Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering (Purdue), MS in Mechanical Engineering (U. Rochester), B.S.E. in Engineering-Physics (Purdue). Dr. Tokuhiro has 10 years of international experience in advanced nuclear reactor research and development (Paul Scherrer Institute and Japan Atomic Energy Agency), as well as experience at Argonne National and Battelle Columbus Laboratories. He was previously on the Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering faculty at Kansas State University and University of Missouri-Rolla (UMR). He was also director of the UMR Reactor and licensed as a senior reactor operator. His interests are in reactor engineering and design, thermal-hydraulics, ultrasonic and laser-based velocimetry, coupled thermohydraulics and reactor physics, application of gel materials, facial and voice expression biometrics and energy dynamics modeling and simulations. His research group consists of about 10 full-time and six part-time graduate students, working on seven Department of Energy sponsored projects.
- Original Link:
- http://www.uidaho.edu/class/mric/archives/2012-2013/the-post-fukushima-world
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- Citation:
- "The Post-Fukushima World: Lessons Learned, Energy Resources and Security", Renfrew Colloquium Archive, University of Idaho Library Digital Collections, https://www.lib.uidaho.edu/digital/mric/items/mric2012-13-004.html