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BRATTLEBORO â On March 11, 2011, an earthquake and tsunami touched off three nuclear meltdowns and multiple hydrogen explosions at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, an ongoing nuclear disaster some scientists say will continue for the next 100 years. The Japanese governmentâs focus on an eventual summer Olympics in Tokyo despite the need for rebuilding and on-going radiation concerns is a contentious topic in and outside of Japan.
On Sunday, March 21, from 4 to 5:30 pm, Windham World Affairs Council (WWAC) will host a Zoom conversation with two women with close ties to Fukushima. Chiho Kaneko and Norma Field will share their perspectives on the âdistortionsâ inherent in the accidentâs ongoing environmental, social and economic impacts in an attempt to clarify the Fukushima reality and lessons it contains. WWAC board member Lissa Weinmann, a citizen appointee to the Vermont Yankee Nuclea
Japan Hasnât Recovered 10 Years After Fukushima Meltdown
Bags of radioactive soil are gathered on March 7, 2021, in Futaba, Japan.
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On March 11, 2011, a devastating offshore earthquake and ensuing tsunami rocked Japan and resulted in nuclear meltdowns in three nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear site. Until the 2020 Tokyo Olympics were placed on a one-year hiatus because of concerns over COVID-19, the Japanese government had portrayed these events as the âRecovery Olympics.â It had hoped to use the Olympics to showcase a claimed restoration of Japan since it was devastated in 2011. But has Japan really ârecovered?â
Recently, corresponding author Marco Kaltofen (Worcester Polytechnic Institute), co-author Maggie Gundersen (Fairewinds Energy Education) and I published our second peer-reviewed journal article analyzing hundreds of radioactive samples from northern Japan that we collected with assistance from Japane