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The ongoing Fukushima crisis may spell the end of nuclear power in Japan, as "citizen opposition grows and local authorities refuse permission to restart reactors that have undergone safety checks". Local authorities are skeptical that sufficient safety measures have been taken and are reticent to give their permission – now required by law ...
For the interim report issued on December 26, 2011, the committee interviewed 456 people over a total of 900 hours of hearings by Dec. 16, 2011.The interim report was "a scathing assessment of the response to the Fukushima disaster", in which the investigative panel "blamed the central government and the Tokyo Electric Power Co., saying both seemed incapable of making decisions to stem ...
China bans Japanese seafood after one million metric tonnes of radioactive water are released
[6] [7] In the intense heat and pressure of the melting Unit 1 reactor, a reaction between the nuclear fuel metal cladding and the remaining water surrounding it produced explosive hydrogen gas. As workers struggled to cool and shut down Unit 1, it exploded the following day (12 March).
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In a news conference on 15 March the director general of the IAEA, Yukiya Amano, said that there was a "possibility of core damage" at Unit 2 of less than 5%. [30] Japan's Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) stated 33% of the fuel rods were damaged, in news reports the morning of 16 March. [31]
IAEA Update on Japan Earthquake, International Atomic Energy Agency; Nature Journal – Specials: Japan earthquake and nuclear crisis; TerraFly Timeline Aerial Imagery of Fukushima Nuclear Reactor after 2011 Tsunami and Earthquake; Documentary photographs: residential damage within "No Go" Zone; In graphics: Fukushima nuclear alert, as provided ...
In Japan, the 2011 off the Pacific coast of Tohoku Earthquake occurred at 14:46 on 11 March 2011. [7] At the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station (Fukushima Daiichi NPS), [8] operated by the Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), the earthquake and tsunami caused the compound accident (hereinafter called Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident) consisting of Station BlackOut (SBO) incident, Unit ...