After the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi accident, Japan suspended operations at all of its remaining 48 nuclear power reactors by 2013 and relied almost exclusively on imported natural gas to replace the lost electricity generation. In 2015, Japan allowed its first nuclear power reactor to resume operations. As of December 2022, 11 … [continued]
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) completed its fourth review mission in November of Japan’s efforts in decommissioning and cleaning up the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and has urged patience and public transparency as radioactive fuel debris is removed.
The nuclear regulator in Japan has OK’d the use of a frozen wall of soil to prevent water entering the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Just a little over 5 years ago, the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant suffered the world’s second largest nuclear disaster, and the Japanese Government … [continued]
Five years on from one of the worst nuclear disasters in human history, Greenpeace and Stanford University have published reports investigating the Fukushima meltdown. Greenpeace Slams Fukushima Rhetoric Late February, Greenpeace launched a high-tech investigation into the radiation effects stemming from the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster. Greenpeace has also published … [continued]
Nearly five years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Greenpeace has launched a high-tech investigation into the radiation effects of the meltdowns on the Pacific Ocean. In March of 2011, the Tōhoku earthquake triggered a tsunami which precipitated three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on the east coast of … [continued]
