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standards transparent to stakeholders for a consensus. This direction of
reengineering are required for all engineering products of unknowns including
such tacit knowledge as safety parameters, engineering decisions, know-how,
theories and so on, which can be described into a holistic explanation through
high quality data linking associated loops simultaneously.
8.6 Concluding Remarks
After the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami, the accident at TEPCO Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Plant site happened because the four reactors were not designed to
withstand such natural disasters. Reengineering must be done in the design of such
nuclear reactors by changing the reference safety rules at the double loop learning
level rather than at the single loop learning of the original design. Release of
radioactive materials into the environment due to the Accident has transformed
the design process to include a much larger question, “Do we need nuclear energy?”
at the triple loop learning level. Many interested people and stakeholders with
different ideas are shifting from the single loop to the triple loop level of thinking
and design. At this time rigorous fact-finding by committed people and stakeholders
based on shared data is required to move towards a design solution at the triple loop
learning level. That triple loop learning will be enhanced by learning more about
facts that relevant experts can handle unexperienced new problems at the Accident
site - at the single and double loop levels of learning. Beyond such efforts we can
hope that data democracy help us outline solutions for unknowns at new frontiers of
science and technology.
Acknowledgement I should like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to my col-
leagues, Dr. John McCarthy, Dr. Pierre Villars, Prof. Ying Chen, Dr. Steve LeClair, Dr. Jack Park,
Dr. David Price, Dr. John Rumble, Dr. Krishan Lal, Prof. Jun Ni, Prof. Binglin Gu, Prof. Chen
Nanxian, Dr. Tony Hey and other colleagues who have pushed me to start a long pilgrim journey of
data-driven design science.
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