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- March 2021 marks ten years since an earthquake off Japan’s Pacific Coast and the tsunami it caused led to reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant to melt down, releasing radiation and forcing the government to evacuate over 100,000 residents in surrounding areas.
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Mar 11, 2021 · With public confidence in nuclear power at record low levels following the accident, authorities suspended operations at 46 of the country’s 50 operational power reactors. Nuclear energy, a strategic priority since the 1960s, supplying almost a third of Japan’s electricity, was suddenly shelved.
Jan 31, 2022 · Here’s what’s happening “NOW” in Fukushima as 10 years have passed since the disaster. Reconstruction of Fukushima in progress, both on-site and off-site. The governmental structure in charge of the reconstruction of Fukushima involves several ministries and agencies, and covers activities both on-site and off-site.
Aug 23, 2023 · Fukushima 10 years on: How the 'triple disaster' unfolded. A tsunami struck the Japanese plant in 2011, leading to the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl.
- How We Got Here
- Social Engagement
- Different Paths
- Inclusive Future
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
Mar 11, 2021 · The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster began 10 years ago today, marking one of the most serious nuclear accidents in history. The disaster was deemed to be a level 7 incident on the...
- Ed Browne
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 ...
Mar 5, 2021 · On the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima nuclear disaster, two experts explain why human choices are more important to nuclear safety than technology, and why the job is far from finished.
