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The Revival of Onahama Smelter & Refinery from the Disaster by the Great East Japan Earthquake

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The earthquake with seismic intensity six trembled Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan on March 11 2011 and a subsequent tsunami attacked the coast on which Onahama Smelter & Refinery was located. The earthquake damaged many facilities and liquefied the ground. The tsunami flooded one third of the plant area. Furthermore, the repair work had to be suspended by the accident happened at Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station. The repair work was restarted in April and progressed smoothly. The operation was restarted on June 30 and the revival of Onahama Smelter & Refinery from the disaster by the Great East Japan Earthquake was completed. Radioactivity measurements have been programmed in detail and applied all over the materials covering from raw materials to products in order to supply safe and relief products to customers. The radioactive contamination to the products has not been detected at all.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Onahama Smelter & Refining Co., LTD, Onahama Smelter & Refinery, 1-1 Nagisa Onahama, Iwaki-City Fukushima, Japan

    Naoki Horihata, Shoji Kawashima & Tetsuro Sakai

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  1. Naoki Horihata
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. SINTEF, Trondheim, Norway

    Anne Kvithyld (a senior research scientist) (a senior research scientist)

  2. Umicore Precious Metals Refining, Hoboken, Belgium

    Christina Meskers (leads the business development and marketing team) (leads the business development and marketing team)

  3. Energy Systems Division, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

    Gregory Krumdick (principal systems engineer) (principal systems engineer)

  4. Kroll Institute for Extractive Metallurgy in Metallurgical & Materials Engineering, Colorado School of Mines, USA

    Brajendra Mishra (professor and the Assoc. Director) (professor and the Assoc. Director)

  5. Outotec Finland, Finland

    Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)

  6. Aalto University, Finland

    Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)

  7. University of Melbourne, Australia

    Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)

  8. Central South University Changsha, China

    Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)

  9. TU Delft, Netherlands

    Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)

  10. University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

    Markus Reuter (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor) (Director of Technology Management, Adjunct Professor, Professorial Fellow, Guest Professor, a professor)

  11. Saint-Gobain Innovative Materials R&D, Belgium

    Cong Wang (Senior Research Engineer) (Senior Research Engineer)

  12. Missouri University of Science and Technology, USA

    Mark Schlesinger (Professor of Metallurgical Engineering) (Professor of Metallurgical Engineering)

  13. Golisano Institute for Sustainability, USA

    Gabrielle Gaustad Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  14. Rochester Institute of Technology, USA

    Gabrielle Gaustad Ph.D. (Assistant Professor) (Assistant Professor)

  15. Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), USA

    Diana Lados (Associate Professor, Founding Director) (Associate Professor, Founding Director)

  16. Integrative Materials Design Center (iMdc), USA

    Diana Lados (Associate Professor, Founding Director) (Associate Professor, Founding Director)

  17. Argonne National Laboratory, USA

    Jeffrey Spangenberger (Engineering Specialist, Senior) (Engineering Specialist, Senior)

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Horihata, N., Kawashima, S., Sakai, T. (2013). The Revival of Onahama Smelter & Refinery from the Disaster by the Great East Japan Earthquake. In: Kvithyld, A., et al. REWAS 2013. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48763-2_2

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