Northwestern Now
EVANSTON, Ill. — The Japanese town of Namie has now been reduced to less than 8% of its original population as residents remain evacuated following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident and have yet to be back, said Mayor Kazuhiro Yoshida, during his address on Tuesday to a global audience of nuclear experts, hosted by Northwestern University.
Northwestern professor Hirokazu Miyazaki published a report detailing the failure of various compensation schemes to remedy the plight of those victims. He can be reached by contacting Mohamed Abdelfattah at mohamed@northwestern.edu.
Quote from Professor Miyazaki:
“We’re often inclined to think that nuclear disasters don’t happen very often, but that doesn’t take into view the damaging impact these disasters have in the long run on people, agriculture and anyone in the path of the nuclear fallout, sometimes beyond national borders.”