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12 hours ago · The operator of Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant says it has retrieved a small amount of nuclear fuel debris from the containment vessel of one of the reactors that melted down 13 ...
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In the 1950s and 1960s, the spread of nuclear energy seemed unstoppable. Policymakers and developers expected that it would become ‘too cheap to meter’. But the 1980s and the 1990s witnessed a sharp decline in investment. Growing anti-nuclear sentiment, fuelled by the accidents at Three Mile Island (1979) and Chernobyl, along with rising constructi...
These are interesting developments. But much of the support for nuclear energy focuses almost exclusively on its techno-economic characteristics, downplaying unresolved moral and ethical concerns. Proponents often fail to consider inequalities in how the benefits and risks of nuclear technologies are distributed at the local, regional and global sc...
The problems of unequal environmental and social burdens are not, of course, unique to the nuclear industry. The mining of lithium for renewable technologies and the recycling of electronics, for example, also raise these issues. But other industries have been better at engaging the public. Shifts to human-centred design have long been under way in...
The historical lack of meaningful engagement with the public has also led to ‘regulatory capture’: this is the co-opting of governance groups to advance the interests of the nuclear industry. It is a common misconception that this is prevalent only in developing countries with weak institutions. Not so. It is present in most places to a greater or ...
- Aditi Verma, Ali Ahmad, Francesca Giovannini
- 2021
A decade after a powerful earthquake and tsunami set off the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown in Japan, Stanford experts discuss revelations about radiation from the disaster, advances in earthquake science related to the event and how its devastating impact has influenced strategies for tsunami defense and local warning systems.
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.
Apr 14, 2021 · Metrics. 11 March 2021 marked the tenth anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. Today, without better public engagement and understanding of nuclear power generation...
- Midori Aoyagi
- aoyagi@nies.go.jp
- 2021
Mar 19, 2024 · ONR mobilised its incident suite to support Dr Weightman and provide independent advice to UK government on the first day of the serious nuclear accident at Fukushima Dai-ichi and kept it fully operational for many weeks.
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This report presents the current situation at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and the responses by Japanese authorities and the international community since the accident. It will assist both policymakers and the general public to understand the multi-dimensional issues stemming from the accident.
