Witness at Fukushima Daichi (audio interview)

 (from Salon Magazine)
(listen to the audio link below, dramatic recollections 
of March 11, 2011 by an American nuclear technician 
working at Fukushima Daicihi nuclear plant on the 
day the earthquake and tsunami hit)

When the earthquake shook northeast Japan last March, 
Carl Pillitteri was leading a team of technicians in the 
Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. Pillitteri 
eventually led his team out of the building and retreated 
to a hillside where he saw the approaching tsunami slam 
about 100 feet from him. He was one of some 40 Americans 
working at the plant that day, and he spoke exclusively in 
this interview with Alex Chadwick, featured here as part 
of Salon’s partnership with the APM radio show, “The Story.” 
You can listen to the full audio interview here. It is also part 
of the radio documentary series “Burn: An Energy Journal.”

I still remember it. The first shock of it. It was just one big
hammer. I turned to my two American friends Danny and
Jeff and said, “Earthquake.” They didn’t feel it. They looked
at me, and cocked their heads a little bit. And then she hit.
We were in a turbine building that is built, for lack of a
better term, like Fort Knox. The entire building was shaking.
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