Chris Hope, of Ririe, Idaho, is back home after escaping from the Fukushima Daiichi plant during the 9.0 earthquake.

He works for an East Idaho software company, and was in Japan upgrading software programs at the Fukushima plant.  Hope said he had experienced smaller quakes in Japan, even found them exciting, but this quake caused him to fear for his life.

He and other people at the plant had to literally fight to get out of the building.  Outside it was like a disaster movie.  Plant officials went to great effort to get Hope to Tokyo, so he could return to Idaho.  He says the best example of how hard it was to get to Tokyo is the movie “Planes, Trains & Automobiles”.

Despite what is going on with the Fukushima nuclear plants, Hope says he still trusts nuclear power.