TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of Tokyo Professor Shuichi Iwata publishes the paper for preparation based on creating a new paradigm triggered from "FUKUSHIMA" caused by the Tohoku Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Reactors.

Almost every day, we have seen reports about changes at many troubles of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant ("FUKUSHIMA") and have experienced large aftershocks of magnitudes around 4 to 7, but there has been no chance of a big tsunami after March 11.

Professor Iwata suggests to prepare against the next big earthquake and tsunami, and nuclear accidents based on not only reliable data and knowledge acquired from "FUKUSHIMA" but also on restructuring our domain-differentiated disciplines and knowledge into a tough, robust, flexible and basic discipline of perseverance since Our land is not stable.

Professor Iwata mentioned "The nuclear reactors require a long time to become stable, and we are going forward step by step with trial and errors. We must derive solutions to control nuclear energy under the worst "Multiple organ dysfunction syndrome" at the end. And in parallel we need to establish robust engineering against future risks and disasters based on our research from the biggest disaster during these one thousand years."

The agenda consists of two main aspects: One aspect concerns a way to reorganize our engineering knowledge on safety beyond experience-based engineering, targeting to establish robust enough engineering against the next big risk and disaster.

The second aspect concerns how to create a human-oriented society of perfect individual care. Sharing of reliable scientific data is the key starting point for this big challenge. Challenges to realize data-centric individual cares and data- and scenario-driven collaborative design approaches together are expected to follow as remedies to get our future perspectives.

About :

Shuichi IWATA, from Tokyo Former President:

CODATA (http://www.codata.org) Editor-in-Chief,

Data Science JournalEAJ & SCJ Member Professor,

Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo

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