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Mar 19, 2021 · Although cleanup in Fukushima has been in progress for 10 years, many years remain before all the melted fuel debris will be removed from the damaged reactors. Watch to see what the nuclear power plant looks like today, and how the disaster has impacted the surrounding community.
- Impact in The Long Run
- Compensation and Costs
- Many Unresolved Issues
- Life in Evacuation
Hirokazu Miyazaki is the Kay Davis Professor of Anthropology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. He published a reportdetailing the failure of various compensation schemes to remedy the plight of those victims. “We’re often inclined to think that nuclear disasters don’t happen very often, but that doesn’t take into view the damaging impac...
Annelise Riles is professor of law and executive director of the Roberta Buffett Institute for Global Affairs. She highlighted the inequitable burden borne by ordinary citizens. “In the case of Fukushima, a large amount of money has been paid out to victims, but remains inadequate. Many who suffered tremendous losses, but reside outside of the mand...
Kazuhiro Yoshida is mayor of the town of Namie in Fukushima. “For 10 years, we have continuously sought to advance our efforts for reconstruction and recovery from the Great East Japan earthquake and nuclear accident. The evacuation order was lifted for part of the town four years ago, and the current population of the town is approximately 1,600, ...
Hidenori Konno is leader of the plaintiffs in one of the lawsuits representing the residents of Namie against the Japanese government and the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO). “Ten years have passed since the accident, but our homeland remains highly contaminated with radiation. Life in evacuation continues, and we do not know when we will be a...
Mar 10, 2023 · Twelve years after the triple reactor meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, Japan is preparing to release a massive amount of treated radioactive wastewater into the sea.
Mar 11, 2024 · Nearly 20,000 people died, whole towns were wiped out and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant was destroyed, creating deep fears of radiation that linger today.
Feb 1, 2015 · Until a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded on April 26, 1986, spreading the equivalent of 400 Hiroshima bombs of fallout across the entire Northern Hemisphere, scientists knew...
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Mar 9, 2021 · The effects of the Fukushima nuclear accident will be felt for decades into the future, say local and international activists on the 10th anniversary of Japan’s triple disaster of March 2011,...
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Feb 28, 2024 · TOKYO (AP) — A drone small enough to fit in one’s hand flew inside one of the damaged reactors at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Wednesday in hopes it can examine some of the molten fuel debris in areas where earlier robots failed to reach.
