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Tsunamis in the Sea of Japan have been observed to arrive faster than those along Japan's Pacific coast. [101] Tsunami modelling executed by the University of Tokyo and Building Research Institute of Japan computed the tsunami to be 3.6 m (12 ft) in Suzu; 3 m (9.8 ft) in Noto; 2.5 m (8 ft 2 in) in Shika and 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in Jōetsu, Niigata.
[8] [124] Peaceful anti-nuclear protest in Tokyo, Japan, escorted by policemen, 16 April 2011. Long one of the world's most committed promoters of civilian nuclear power, Japan's nuclear industry was not hit as hard by the effects of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident (USA) or the 1986 Chernobyl disaster (USSR) as some other countries ...
Political and energy experts describe "nothing short of a nationwide loss of faith, not only in Japan's once-vaunted nuclear technology but also in the government, which many blame for allowing the accident to happen". [145] According to The Japan Times, the Fukushima nuclear disaster changed the national debate over energy policy almost ...
Nuclear Engineering International reported that all four units were successfully automatically shut down, but emergency diesel generators at the site were out of order. [10] People were evacuated around 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) from the plant, due to possible radioactive contamination .
A 2011 poll suggests that scepticism over nuclear power is growing in Sweden following Japan's nuclear crisis. 36 percent of respondents want to phase-out nuclear power, up from 15 percent in a similar survey two years ago. [107] Switzerland. Japan's Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear disaster "has entirely changed the energy debate in Switzerland".
Since World War II, the United States military based nuclear and chemical weapons and field tested biological anti-crop weapons in Japan. Japan has since become a nuclear-capable state, said to be a "screwdriver's turn" away from nuclear weapons; having the capacity, the know-how, and the materials to make a nuclear bomb .
During World War II, Japan had several programs exploring the use of nuclear fission for military technology, including nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.Like the similar wartime programs in Nazi Germany, it was relatively small, suffered from an array of problems brought on by lack of resources and wartime disarray, and was ultimately unable to progress beyond the laboratory stage during ...
Fukushima heroes: Not afraid to die - from CBS News; Japan hails the heroic 'Fukushima 50' - from BBC News; Fukushima 50 A Facebook page to pay tribute to their heroic acts; Hymn to The Fukushima 50 - Tribute A powerful and thought-provoking video paying tribute to the Fukushima Heroes