The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Rebuild Japan Initiative Foundation have joined forces to re-release an independent investigation of the "lessons learned" from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catastrophe. The report was originally released in late Feb. 2012, just before the one-year mark on the
nuclear catastrophe.
It had first reported that Prime Minister Kan's administration was drawing up contingency plans to evacuate 30-50 million people from the metro Tokyo area, if a "demonic chain reaction" of atomic reactor meltdowns, and high-level radioactive waste pool fires, were to have unfolded in mid-March 2011.