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FUKUSHIMA: A NUCLEAR NIGHTMARE

  I just watched on HBO Max,   Fukushima:  A Nuclear Nightmare,   a 2026 British-American documentary directed by James Jones and Megumi Inman, exploring the 11March2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.  A gripping film.  Too new to be rated by   RottenTomatoes.   Read my   Huffington Post   article on   The Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami:  The Aftermath . The production features Ikuo Izawa, a Tokyo Electric Power Company supervisor at the nuclear site, who deserves an Oscar for his performance.  He was there from Day 1 as one of the  Fukushima 50  and worked at the site until help came.  From  Wikipedia : There were 800 workers at the site when the tsunami struck on 11March2011. These 50 volunteered to remain to stabilize the nuclear reactors for the crucial first few days 6 am  Wake up 7–8 am  Meeting at the anti-seismic building  10 am Breakfast (biscuits about 30 pieces and ...

THE GREAT TOHOKU CATACLYSM: Tokyo to Beijing

Before getting into nostalgia, who is  new UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak ? 42-year old Hindu born in Southampton whose parents of Indian descent migrated from East Africa in the 1960s. Went to Oxford, then got an MBA from Stanford University as a Fulbright Scholar. While at Stanford, met his wife Akshata Murthy, daughter of Indian billionaire N.R. Narayana Murthy, who founded Infosys. Rishi and Akshata have two children and are an almost billionaire couple, the 222nd richest people in Britain. First British Asian and Hindu to become prime minister. While relatively young, David Cameron in 2010 was only a year older at 43, while the first PM, Robert Walpole in 1721 was 44, William Cavendish in 1756 was 36, Charles Watson-Wentworth was 35, Augustus FitzRoy in 1768 was 33 and William Pitt the Younger ( right ) in 1783 was 24.  Winston Churchill in 1940 was 65, Margaret Thatcher in 1979 was 53 and Tony Blair in 1997 was 43. According to  Time  magazine: He bears none of ...