Radiation from Fukushima disaster detected on Oregon's shores "I believe everything is going well so far," plant chief Tomohiko Isogai told Japanese public broadcaster NHK. "We will watch the progress at the site as we put safety first. Our goal is not to rush the process but to carefull...
Locating the fuel debris in each of the damaged reactors is an important part of the decommissioning process, which is expected to take decades. "There is a high possibility that the solidified objects are mixtures of melted metal and fuel that fell from the vessel," a spokesman said. Some ...
The Psychosocial Consequences of the Fukushima Disaster: What Are We Suffering From?The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant accident caused enormous damage in terms of not only the mental status of affected people, but also the cohesiveness of entire communities in Fukushima Prefecture. Regarding ...
The Fukushima and Tohoku Disaster: A Review of the Five-Year Reconstruction Efforts covers the outcome of the response, five years later, to the disasters associated with the Great ... read full description Purchase book Share this bookBrowse...
Robots responding to Japan’s 2011 nuclear disaster initially played a marginal role due to limited capabilities. DARPA wants future robots to take the lead
A First-Hand Account of Japan's Nuclear Crisis Katsumi Furitsu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28 Young doctors speak out on the Fukushima disaster . . . . . . . . . . .40 Japan’s Nucl...
TOKYO, March 11 (Xinhua) -- Eleven years after the quake-induced Fukushima disaster, the aftermath of the nuclear meltdown, not least a large amount of contaminated water, remains a grave challenge for Japan as well as for the rest of the world. ...
The 3.11 disaster, as it is referred to in Japan, was a complex accident, the likes of which humans had never faced before. This book evaluates the actions taken during and after the earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear accident, for which the Japanese government and people were not prepared. ...
Japan: Fukushima's ghost towns 5 years after disaster 01:56 - Source: CNN Meltdown It started with a wave. Within 50 minutes of the initial earthquake, the first wave crested the nuclear plant’s 10-meter high sea wall. The plant’s emergency power generators, in the basement, ...