Yanosuke Hirai, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Japanese civil engineer
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Place of Birth: Shibata, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
About Yanosuke Hirai
- Yanosuke Hirai (?? ???, Hirai Yanosuke, May 16, 1902 – February 21, 1986) was a Japanese civil engineer and corporate executive in the electric power industry.
- He developed electric power generation in the Tohoku region during the Showa era with unusual foresight and a deep sense of responsibility.
- 25 years after his death, Hirai’s foresight protected lives and environment from the March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami.
- The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant (Miyagi Prefecture), designed and built under his watch, was the sole plant in the region that fully resisted the disaster of March 11, 2011: all of its three reactors successfully withstood the seism and the tsunami and shut down safely as designed, virtually without any incident.
- The site of the plant even ended up providing a refuge for three months to more than 300 neighboring people who had lost their homes.
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