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Japan’s dilemma: Should it use nuclear to achieve climate goals?

Mar 08 2021

Beneath the rigid formality, there’s an increasingly divisive debate: what’s the role of nuclear energy a decade after the Fukushima disaster. Since Japan pledged in October to become carbon neutral by 2050,

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Author Yoichi Funabashi on Fukushima crisis 10 years later: Nuclear energy was and still is 'unforgiving'

Mar 08 2021

Yoichi Funabashi, one of Japan’s most imminent journalists and author of a new book titled "Meltdown: Inside the Fukushima Nuclear Crisis," told The World that there was a lack of emergency training for that critical scenario faced on March 11,

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Fukushima Timeline: How an Earthquake Triggered Japan’s 2011 Nuclear Disaster

Mar 05 2021

The 2011 disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant was the worst nuclear event since the meltdown at Chernobyl in the former Soviet Union 25 years prior. It started with an earthquake. It resulted in 465,

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Nuclear energy, ten years after Fukushima

Mar 05 2021

Amid the urgent need to decarbonize, the industry that delivers one-tenth of global electricity must consult the public on reactor research, design, regulation, location and waste.

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