![]() When the shaking stopped and emergency lights came on, the air was thick with a chalky haze of dust and concrete. Heavy objects fell around him from heights of three or four stories. In darkness, he heard steel crashing against steel and men shouting. It knocked him to the ground, and the lights failed. on March 11th, an earthquake began to rattle the building, more violent than any Tataki could remember. “Even when there’s no work elsewhere, there is work at the plants,” he told me recently.Īt 2:46 P.M. He often skipped classes to surf, and after high school he worked, unhappily, on an assembly line welding circuit boards, until he got into scaffolding, which has kept him employed, on and off, at nuclear plants ever since. Like many of the plant’s employees, he grew up nearby. He is a tobi worker-a scaffolder-and, at thirty-three, is small and nimble. Yusuke Tataki was in the concrete building that contains Reactor No. ![]() ![]() The plant, about a hundred and fifty miles north of Tokyo, is painted white and pale blue and is a labyrinth of boxy buildings and piping on a campus larger than the Pentagon’s. On the afternoon of March 11th-a Friday-the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station, on Japan’s Pacific coast, had more than six thousand workers inside. ![]()
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