How the other Fukushima plant survived

• Autores: Ranjay Gulati, Charles Casto, Charlotte Krontiris
• Localización: Harvard business review, ISSN 0017-8012, Vol. 92, Nº 7-8, 2014, págs. 111-115
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • In March 2011 Japan�s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was devastated by three reactor explosions and two core meltdowns in the days following a 9.0 earthquake and a tsunami that produced waves as high as 17 meters. The world is familiar with Daiichi�s fate; less well known is the crisis at its sister plant, Daini, about 10 kilometers to the south. As a result of nature�s onslaught, three of Daini�s four reactors lacked sufficient power to achieve cooldown. To prevent the disaster experienced up north, the site superintendent, Naohiro Masuda, and his team had to connect them to the plant�s surviving power sources. In a volatile environment, Masuda and Daini�s hundreds of employees responded to each unexpected event in turn. Luck played a part, but so did smart leadership and sensemaking. Until the last reactor went into cold shutdown, Masuda�s team took nothing for granted. With each new problem they encountered, it recalibrated, iteratively creating continuity and restoring order. Daini survived the crisis without an explosion or a meltdown.