Japan: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 2011

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Introduction

In March 2011, an earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant and generated three meltdowns, marking the biggest nuclear incident since the Chernobyl Disaster.

Knowledge base

Update

Prolonged impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident on health and society

The health effects on local residents following a nuclear power plant accident are diverse, not only because of radiation exposure but also because of changes in lifestyle and social environment.
Open Access Government
Update

Contaminated Fukushima soil stored in flood zones, audit finds

Many of the temporary storage sites for soil and waste contaminated by radiation are located in areas vulnerable to disasters.
Asahi Shimbun Company, the
Update

10 years after Fukushima: Are Japanese nuclear power plants safe?

Will the restarted nuclear power plants that have passed the conformity assessment following the Fukushima disaster be able to withstand such an earthquake?
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
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Update

Fukushima: ten years on from the disaster, was Japan’s response right?

In order to minimise suffering in future nuclear accidents, there are important lessons from March 2011 that must be learned.
Conversation Media Group, the
Update

Ten years after Fukushima, Japan remembers 'man-made' nuclear disaster

Japan is again debating the role of nuclear power in its energy mix as the resource-poor country aims to achieve net carbon neutrality by 2050 to fight global warming.
Thomson Reuters
Update

Ensuring the safety of nuclear installations: Lessons learned from the Fukushima Daiichi accident

Experts found that a higher level of safety could be incorporated into existing nuclear power plants by adhering to more demanding requirements.
International Atomic Energy Agency
Documents and publications

Eight years after Fukushima nuclear accident - Community recovery and reconstruction from nuclear and radiological disasters – a case of Kawauchi village and Tomioka town in Fukushima

The village/town-university collaboration provides the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction with a model for developing a multi-disciplinary and multi-hazard approach to public DRR policy during the recovery phase of a nuclear accident.
Documents and publications

On the frontline of the Fukushima nuclear accident: workers and children

Eight years after the start of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster and two years after the Japanese government lifted evacuation orders in areas of Namie and Iitate, radiation levels remain too high for the safe return of thousands of Japanese citizen

Research briefs

Homes should not be abandoned after a big nuclear accident

New research suggests that few people, if any, should be asked to leave their homes after a big nuclear accident, which is what happened in March 2011 following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. The study calls for decision makers to first consider remediation rather than relocation.
University of Bristol
Documents and publications

Risk communication programs after the Fukushima nuclear accident: a comparison of epistemic cultures

Fukushima Global Communication Programme Working Paper Series Number 13, December 2015:

This paper explores the citizen radiation measuring organizations as an example of risk communication and contrasts their ‘epistemic culture’ with that of the nuclear

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