Leadership Insights: Interview Summary of Ikuo Izawa Fukushima Control Room Operator
The Extreme Crisis Leadership Show · CHARLES CASTO
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Show Notes
No more heroes: A discussion with a shift supervisor of Fukushima Dai-ichi
If I were cornered. I would try to get out of the corner not by skills, but by spirit.
-Ikuo Izawa (2013)
Those prophetic words come from a leader who experienced forces of physics and nature far beyond those experienced by most leaders. This article is a composite discussion between Dr. Charles Casto, 60 years old, the team leader for the United States government in Japan during the Fukushima accident, and Ikuo Izawa, shift supervisor at Fukushima Dai-ichi, during the March 2011 accident. Ikuo Izawa, 52 years old at the time of the accident in March 2011, served as a Tokyo Electric Power Company shift supervisor for Units 1 and 2 during one of the worst nuclear power events in history. I was honored to discuss his feelings about the accident. The interview was held in Tokyo in July 2013.