March 18, 2011
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When entire towns are washed away or turned into debris, how do you begin cleaning up and re-building? That’s the question facing Japanese authorities, who have to start the cleanup amid uncertainty over the fate of the country’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear complex, disabled by last week’s earthquake and tsunami.

WBUR speaks with Yossi Sheffi, director of MIT’s Engineering Systems Division, and director MIT CTL who has some thoughts on the subject.

 

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