The Fukushima black box.

The article looks at investigations into the March 2011 nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant in Japan. An interim report published in December 2011 detailing the incompetence of the Japanese government and Tokyo Electric Power (TEPCO), the plant's operator, is noted. Topics discussed include TEPCO's lack of an accident-management plan, workers' inadequate training on reactor emergency-cooling systems, and concerns the report will not be heeded to prevent other disasters.