Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

On March 11, 2011, the Fukushima Daichi nuclear power plant experienced a triple meltdown resulting from a tsunami, constituting the worst nuclear power plant disaster since Chernobyl. Efforts to bring the catastrophe under control are ongoing and piecemeal. This section explores advances and pitfalls as Japanese authorities attempt to deal with this ongoing crisis.

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Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

March 19, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

Fukushima power outage to spent nuclear fuel storage ponds partially restored

Four fuel storage ponds at Japan’s tsunami-damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant were deprived of fresh cooling water for more than […]

March 14, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

New Japanese nuclear regulatory agency must assert its opinion as confusion around Fukushima disaster still lingers

TOKYO – By its own understated account, the nuclear regulatory body that was reconstituted in Japan is suffering from a public relations […]

March 13, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

New Japanese nuclear regulatory agency must assert its opinion as confusion around Fukushima disaster still lingers

TOKYO – By its own understated account, the nuclear regulatory body that was reconstituted in Japan is suffering from a public relations […]

March 12, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

Analysis: Fukushima two years later

TOKYO– For the past few days, I have been traveling with my colleague Charles Digges in the area surrounding the Fukushimi Daiichi Nuclear […]

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March 12, 2013 Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

Road to Fukushima fraught with ongoing tragedy and innovations ignored

NARAHA, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan –As you progress up Japan’s National Road No. 6 toward the destroyed Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power […]

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Nils Bøhmer has been managing director of the Bellona Foundation since 2006, after he worked 13 years at Bellona’s Russian department. Previously he worked at the NRPA. Bøhmer is Bellona’s expert on radioactive waste, nuclear accidents and nuclear power. He holds a M.Sc. from the University of Oslo and a Master’s degree in nuclear physics

Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

Nuclear Meltdown in Japan

Fukushima power outage to spent nuclear fuel storage ponds partially restored

New Japanese nuclear regulatory agency must assert its opinion as confusion around Fukushima disaster still lingers

New Japanese nuclear regulatory agency must assert its opinion as confusion around Fukushima disaster still lingers

Analysis: Fukushima two years later

Road to Fukushima fraught with ongoing tragedy and innovations ignored

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Private: Nils Bøhmer

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