Abstract
The disaster of Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was indeed an unprecedented accident. However, the consequence could have been worse without tremendous struggles of the personnel on the site. In order to identify the key factors that enabled such tremendous and self-sacrificing struggles, documents including narrative statements of the personnel have been reviewed. The ultimate purpose of this paper is to enhance operational resilience of nuclear power plants. Out of the four key capabilities proposed in the framework of resilience engineering, the capability to respond has been mainly studied. Particular attention has been paid to attitude of operators which definitely contributed to the outstanding behaviors. Through extensive reviewing activities, number of factors such as the sense of vocation, consciousness for one's own plants, sprit of operator, leadership, followership, comradeship, regional loyalty, connection with family, etc. have been identified as the important driving forces that contributed to the honorable attitude.
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