Fukushima: a lasting tragedy

Posted: 17th September 2021

In 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake and ensuing tsunami devastated northeast Japan, taking the lives of more than 18,000 people and triggering one of the worst industrial accidents in history: the crippling breakdown of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. Three of the plant’s six reactors sustained perilous nuclear core meltdowns and hydrogen gas explosions, releasing radionuclides into the air, water and soil. More than 160,000 people were evacuated — nuclear power refugees, many having lost trust in their government’s pronouncements about “safe to return.”

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https://www.reformer.com/opinion/columnists/h-patricia-hynes-fukushima-a-lasting-tragedy/article_84b…