Speaker – Mark L. Miller, Sandia National Laboratories

This presentation will provide a personal overview and commentary on the sequence of events that led to the unprecedented disaster at the Fukushima Nuclear facility, beginning 3/11/11. This information is gleaned from the stream of information available on the Internet, contacts intimately associated with some of the emergency response organizations and his personal experience of working at a GE Mark-I BWR (the identical design/vintage of one of the Fukushima reactors) in Monticello, MN from 1982-1987. It will document the chronology of events since the accident and discuss radiation exposures to workers and the public as well as explore the innumerable challenges facing the Japanese, not only related to Fukushima itself but for nuclear energy’s future in Japan.