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And at a ceremony in Fukushima prefecture, where some 20,000 people still cannot return to their homes because of radiation, Gov. Masao Uchibori vowed that rebuilding will continue as the decades ...
Partially due to the already abandoned urban areas, as well as international relations currently affecting the country, remediation efforts have minimized [clarification needed] compared to the initial clean up actions and more recent accidents such as the Fukushima incident. On-site laboratories, monitoring wells, and meteorological stations ...
As of August 2011, the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant is still leaking low levels of radioactive material and areas surrounding it could remain uninhabitable for decades due to high radiation. It could take "more than 20 years before residents could safely return to areas with current radiation readings of 200 millisieverts per year, and a ...
Japan on Monday marked 13 years since a massive earthquake and tsunami hit the country’s northern coasts. Nearly 20,000 people died, whole towns were wiped out and the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear ...
The plant with seven units is the largest single nuclear power station in the world, which now again is shut down due to the Fukushima accident. [47] 0: 1 Dec 2009: Hamaoka, Japan: Leakage accident of radioactive water. 34 workers were exposed to radiation: 0: Mar 2011: Fukushima Dai-ichi, Japan: The world's second INES 7 accident.
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant will start releasing treated and diluted radioactive wastewater into the Pacific Ocean as early as Thursday — a controversial step that the government ...
Several countries, especially European countries, have abandoned the construction of new nuclear power plants. [15] Austria (1978), Sweden (1980) and Italy (1987) voted in referendums to oppose or phase out nuclear power, while opposition in Ireland prevented a nuclear program there.
A drone small enough to fit in one's hand flew inside one of the damaged reactors at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant Wednesday in hopes it can examine some of the molten fuel ...