Reid Tanaka worked as the liaison between the US Navy, Japanese government and the Fukushima nuclear plant for a year after the tsunami.
Looking back close to the seventh anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear
Disaster, society not only continues to contend with the effects of the accident, but also with the question of nuclear power.
How can we move forward to safely produce energy using nuclear power? And how can we prevent such tragedy from occurring again?
Reid Tanaka draws on over 31 years as a nuclear technician officer in the US Navy
.Hewas serving aboard the nuclear aircraft carrier USS GEORGE WASHINGTON in
Yokosuka, Japan when the Great Tohoku earthquake and tsunami struck. As a
nuclear trained naval officer, he spent the ensuing year on the US team responding to
the Fukushima reactor accident.
Now retired back to the area in Renton Washington he is currently a nuclear engineering consultant for advanced nuclear reactors under contract at TerraPower in Bellevue, WA.
Feb 28, 6:30pm, on the UW campus in Thompson Hall 101.
Sponsored by the UW student organization: Institutes for Nuclear Materials Management.
