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As Fukushima memories fade, Japan embraces a nuclear-powered future
Japan is dismantling Fukushima Daiichi and developing safer reactors amid energy security concerns, with only 15 of 33 operable reactors restarted and 51% public support for restarts.
- Ahead of the 15th anniversary of March 11, 2011, Japan is pressing ahead with nuclear plans, dismantling Fukushima No. facility and restarting a reactor at Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, industry officials say.
- After the 2012 phase-out decision was reversed two years later, policymakers faced energy-security risks and costly imports amid Middle East turmoil supplying 95 per cent of Japan's oil.
- Industry engineers say new plants will include failproof natural circulation cooling and fortified roofs, while government-funded training faces a bottleneck with just 177 admissions in 2024.
- TEPCO spokespersons warn that the work remains slow and hampered by knowledge gaps, cost overruns, and extreme caution, but success could set a global decommissioning blueprint.
- A February Asahi survey found a slim majority now support restarts, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries told Reuters last week its nuclear unit aims for 400 billion yen in 2027, but only 15 of 33 reactors are back online.
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Japan reactivates nuclear power stations fifteen years after Fukushima, a decision that reopens wounds that have never been closed down. As the country recalls the worst nuclear disaster in its recent history, oil prices and geopolitical instability push the government to reconsider atomic energy as a strategic pillar. The decision comes at a particularly symbolic moment: this week marks the fifteenth anniversary of the earthquake and tsunami th…
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As Fukushima memories fade, Japan embraces a nuclear-powered future
IWAKI, Japan — Takuma Hashimoto was three years old when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11, 2011, triggering nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant just an hour’s drive from his home. As the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl unfolded, his terrified family was trapped, unable to flee like their neighbors because they couldn’t find gas for their car. Now 18, Hashimoto wants to become part of Japan’s next generatio…
The post-tsunami situation that fell on the Japanese coast on 15 March 2011 and flooded the Fukushima power plant is still worsening today. To the deaths of the first weeks, we must add the victims of cancers that are developing and worrying the inhabitants, despite the reassuring speech of the authorities.
As Fukushima memories fade, Japan embraces a nuclear-powered future | Honolulu Star-Advertiser
IWAKI, Japan >> Takuma Hashimoto was three years old when a massive earthquake and tsunami struck on March 11, 2011, triggering nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi plant just an hour’s drive from his home.
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