Mission Accomplished

IAEA Onagawa

Left to right: Wakabayashi Toshiaki, Onagawa Nuclear Power Station, Engineering Department Manager; Peter Yanev; Yaegashi Takeyoshi, Tohoku Electric Power Company, Nuclear Power General Manager; Woody

Woody and members of the IAEA have inspected the Onagawa atomic plant in Miyagi Prefecture, and found it to be “remarkably undamaged.”

Due to the limited time available, the experts were only able to perform visual inspection of equipment samples. In doing so, they found no trace of the damage which caused a catastrophic failure in the Fukushima plant, 120 km to the south.

Japan Times 08-11-12 001

Japan Times 08-11-12 001

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Woody is best known for his risk assessment software, Riskman ®, and his work on the risk assessment of the Abandoned Chemical Weapons in China.