behind the Fukushima disaster
playing with nuclear fire: a dirty job with no end in sight
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"As of August 2014, we know that radiation levels around the Fukushima area continue to rise, even after three years of containment attempts... the concern is not only in Japan but also what is leaking into the Pacific Ocean"
The Fukushima Nuclear Accident Independent Investigation Commission found the nuclear disaster was "manmade" and that its direct causes were all foreseeable. The report also found that the plant was incapable of withstanding the earthquake and tsunami.
"Because of the coverups, what could have been a minor nuclear accident became one of the greatest nuclear disasters of all time" ~ Michio Kaku.
"As of August 2014, we know that radiation levels around the Fukushima area continue to rise, even after three years of containment attempts... the concern is not only in Japan but also what is leaking into the Pacific Ocean"
"People don't realise we are 50yrs into the nuclear age and we still don't know where to put the nuclear waste... we are literally making it up as we go along" Michio Kaku - Theoretical Physicist
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear catasrophe was a nuclear disaster on the 11th of March 2011, resulting in a meltdown of three of the plant's six nuclear reactors. The failure occurred when the plant was hit by a tsunami triggered by the 9.0 magnitude Tōhoku earthquake. The plant then began releasing substantial amounts of radioactive material on the 12th of March, becoming the largest nuclear incident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986. This makes it the second to measure Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Since the disaster there has been a questionable response from nuclear operators TEPCO and the Japanese Government. This year marked the disaster’s third anniversary. New accounts of mismanagement and the swelling of radiation levels are continuing to surface. The true scale of this global crisis is becoming more and more evident, but what is being done about it, and will it be too late? VICE