On 11 March 2011, the earthquake and tsunami caused massive casualties and severe damage to properties, including the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. This chapter discusses the impact of the nuclear accident on Japanese energy and climate policies. Section 10.1 focuses on the impact on the ...
In Fukushima Prefecture, the casualties from radiation terror number more than 1,600, exceeding direct deaths from the natural disaster in that area, because of government-mandated evacuation that forced people from their homes and usual ... J. Orient 被引量: 4发表: 2014年 Red blood cell para...
The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster was a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima INuclear Power Plantthat began on March 11, 2011, and resulted in a meltdown of three of the plant’s six nuclear reactors. The failure occurred when the plant was hit by a tsunami that had been triggered by th...
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said on Thursday that authorities were looking into the situation, including the number of deaths linked to the quake, and the Defense Ministry had sent Self-Defense forces to Fukushima to help with disaster relief. "We will take all possible measures to respond to ...
The Fukushima accident has been catastrophic, but not on the same scale as the Chernobyl disaster. So far, no casualties caused by radiation exposure have been reported, and many experts believe that the long-term health impacts will be comparatively minor. According to experts from the US ...
can effectively reduce the number of casualties by providing safe havens and efficient evacuation routes during the chaotic period of the unfolding disaster. ... X Zhao,X Wei,Y Ma,... - 《Plos One》 被引量: 13发表: 2015年 Survival Psychology Responses to unfolding disaster can be divided ...
Despite the clear and trustworthy information given by IRSN and despite the fact that there were no direct casualties in Japan due to the nuclear accident, public surveys showed that this did not stop French citizens losing confidence in nuclear power.Footnote1 ...
A further consequence was damage to the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, and the resultant release of radioactive materials. The combination of these three events – referred to as the 2011 Triple Disaster – has had a long-lasting impact upon the affected region. This paper examines five...
disaster are much worse than officially announced, and rising. In fact, this accident has released much more radiation, by far, than the Chernobyl accident. Additional “casualties” from the accident have been transparency and liberal democracy, an argument that many anti-nuclear advocates have...
The International Atomic Energy Agency gave this event a disaster rating nearly same as the Chernobyl 7 out of 10 and the highest marks a nuclear incident can receive. TEPCO being aware that the tsunami would destroy parts of the Plant took measures when the tsunami hit the nuclear plant, but...