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I was stunned.” As the fuel started to melt, a special group of soldiers tried to inject water directly into the core of one of the reactors. “When I heard the diesel generators were lost,” reactor inspector Takashi Sato tells FRONTLINE, “I couldn’t square that with reality.

The story profiles the Japanese soldiers and firefighters drafted to cool the reactors, who were wounded when the reactor housings exploded and the families, living near the nuclear plant, who unknowingly fled in the same direction as the radioactive plume, exposing themselves to dangerously high radiation levels. With exclusive eyewitness testimony from key figures in the drama - including the Japanese prime minister and senior executives at the power company Tepco - FRONTLINE tells the story of the workers struggling frantically to reconnect power inside the plant’s pitch-dark and highly radioactive reactor buildings the nuclear experts and officials in the prime minister’s office fighting to get information as the crisis spiraled out of control and the plant manager who disobeyed his executives’ orders when he thought it would save the lives of his workers.

“In the Information Age, They Have No Information” by Gretchen Gavett Then and Now: Photos of Japan’s Earthquake and Tsunami Devastation by Gretchen Gavett One Pilot’s Dangerous Mission to Stop Fukushima’s Nuclear Meltdown by Gretchen Gavett “The Fate of Japan Hangs in the Balance” by Gretchen Gavett “The Workers We Spoke to Thought They Were Going to Die” by Gretchen Gavett Naoto Kan: “Japan Was Invaded by an Invisible Enemy” How Do You Clean Up After a Nuclear Disaster? by Gretchen Gavett TEPCO’s Akio Komori: “The Options We Had Available … Were Rather Limited” Voices From the Inside: Fukushima’s Workers Speak by Gretchen Gavett

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