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Dramas, Fukushima, Fukushima: 3. Explosion

Dramas

Fukushima

Fukushima: 3. Explosion

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May 29, 2023

27 minutes

Available for over a year

A massive explosion rocks the stricken power plant. Can the reactors be cooled? The nuclear plant manager has an unorthodox plan to prevent further disaster. A drama about the events of March 2011.

Cast:

Suto: Togo Igawa

Akiko: Ami Okumura Jones

Yoshida: Eiji Mihara

Prime minister: Kevin Shen

Saito: Sadao Ueda

Matsui: Akira Koieyama

Kojima: Matt McCooey

Kaneko: Nino Furuhata

Narrator: Romola Garai

Fukushima is written by Adrian Penketh

Sound design is by Peter Ringrose

Produced by Toby Swift and Sasha Yevtushenko

Commissioned by Simon Pitts for BBC World Service