The decision to restart plants is fraught with emotions, not to mention the gargantuan technical task of fortifying the stations against future disasters in an earthquake-prone nation.
The Ukraine war has shown the fragility of Japan’s energy supplies. But the decision to restart plants after the Fukushima disaster is fraught with emotions and political calculation.
Ten years on, Japan s Fukushima victims worry they ve been forgotten
Posted : 2021-01-02 14:14
Updated : 2021-01-02 22:35
People wearing masks are seen next to a board with messages mourning the victims of the March 11, 2011, earthquake and tsunami disaster that killed thousands and set off a nuclear crisis, at Ginza shopping district in Tokyo, March 11, 2020. Reuters
Sumio Konno used to invite neighborhood children and their parents to a barbeque in his garden, overlooking a forest and a pond where water birds would come and go. We would often get together and grill fish, mushrooms and freshly dug bamboo shoots. It was the epitome of a wonderful life, recalled Konno, a former nuclear plant worker, of his old home in rural, north-eastern Japan.