10 Years after Fukushima-Daiichi: International Conference on Lessons Learned Begins in Vienna

This year, 11 March, marked ten years since the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant accident. In the ensuing days, weeks and months following the accident, the IAEA, alongside the nuclear community, sought to help the Japanese authorities manage the response and to ensure the safety of nuclear facilities globally. Now a decade later, the nuclear community is gathering to look back on lessons learned and actions taken, as well as to identify ways to further strengthen nuclear safety.

“It is so important that ten years after the accident, we would come together as a community to take stock of efforts that we have been realizing over the years and also to look, not only retrospectively in what we’ve been doing and the efforts that have been taking place, but most importantly on what’s happening now,” said IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi, at the opening of the International Conference on a Decade of Progress after Fukushima-Daiichi: Building on the Lessons Learned to Further Strengthen Nuclear Safety. The IAEA and the Government of Japan, with support of international organizations, have been extensively cooperating in the aftermath of the Fukushima-Daiichi accident to address radiation monitoring, remediation, waste management, decommissioning and emergency preparedness.