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Japan: Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster 2011
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date: 25 March 2013 'Natural Disasters are becoming more intense and more frequent. The triple disaster that hit Japan in March 2011 showed that even the best prepared countries can be overwhelmed by the force of nature. We can better meet these challenges by working together. I am convinced that exchanging information and best practices will benefit us both, the EU and Japan,' said Commissioner Georgieva... |
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date: 10 March 2013 The lessons learned from the Fukushima disaster 'may help not only to reduce the risk of future accidents, but also to facilitate recovery in areas around the world that have been contaminated by radioactive or other toxic substances,' stated Shinichi Nakayama, a researcher in radioactive waste management at the Japan Atomic Energy Agency and Ian McKinley, of MCM Consulting... |
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date: 22 January 2013 Officials in the USA are working on plans to ensure that flood, earthquake or other disaster situations would not cause nuclear meltdowns such as that of the Fukushima Daiichi plant in Japan. Action to prepare for a dual meltdown was not a case of 'forewarned is forearmed,' but more like 'forewarned is forestalled'... |
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date: 21 November 2012 Efforts to understand early warning and early action behaviour will become more successful by exploring how disaster risk reduction relates to poverty reduction — which in this context means not just improvements in meeting basic needs, but more broadly the absence of constraints to sustainable development... |
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date: 31 October 2012 'What should we do next? It is not ruled out that after the hurricane in the US the government will revise some of the norms for the housing construction. It will cost more to the people and the government to build firmer houses but these houses will be capable to withstand new natural threats,' said Alexei Kokorin, head of the Climate and Energy program of the World Wildlife Fund... |
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date: 12 October 2012 AFP reports that a new Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO) report admits TEPCO's role and responsibility in the Fukushima nuclear plan disaster, calling their admission an 'about-face' with regard to their ability to have reasonably prepared for the threat of tsunami following the Great East Japan earthquake in 2011... |
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date: 26 September 2012 Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda of Japan enjoined the community of nations to 'imagine the benefits of future generations' and to act on their behalf, adding that the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station last year – a result of the 'Great East Japan Earthquake' – had led the Government to take steps to create a society not dependent on nuclear power by the 2030s... |
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date: 24 September 2012 'The location of nuclear installations does not only have implications for their host countries but also for the areas which could be affected by radioactive leaks,' said Joaquín Rodríguez-Vidal, lead author of the study and researcher at the Geodynamics and Paleontology Department of the University of Huelva... |
date: 13 September 2012 According to the Japan Times, the plan aims to increase the number of homes that meet quake-resistance standards to 95 percent of the total by 2020 from 81 percent at present. The plan also contains measures to protect residents from radioactive substances from a nuclear power plant in a distant location, following the meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 facility... |
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date: 27 August 2012 As 75 States are party to the Convention on Nuclear Safety (CNS) to analyse technical aspects of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident and ensure that the right lessons are learned, IAEA Director General urges 'to maintain our sense of urgency and our commitment to implementing the Action Plan in full'... |
date: 21 August 2012 'The sonar tests will help paint a detailed three-dimensional picture of the seismic fault lines in the area. But they are controversial because the piercing, around-the-clock underwater sounds could harm animals in protected wildlife areas and limit commercial fishing,' reports Reuters... |
date: 23 July 2012 'Both the government and companies should establish a new philosophy of disaster prevention that requires safety and disaster measures against any massive accident and disaster regardless of event probability,' the a report requested by the Japanese government found... |
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date: 29 May 2012 'Although there are likely to be lessons learned from Japan that will apply to emergency preparedness, I do not think that we need to wait to implement the many enhancements that this rule will provide,' said Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko... |
date: 22 May 2012 New research from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry report warns: Western Europe has the worldwide highest risk of radioactive contamination caused by major reactor accidents... |
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date: 3 May 2012 'Indonesia should consider the fact that it is located on the Pacific Ring of Fire, making it prone to disaster,' warned nuclear expert Yoichi Funabashi, while urging the Indonesian government to be cautious when considering to build nuclear plants in Indonesia... |
date: 20 April 2012 Helena Lindberg presents the example of Sweden, where the 'whole-of-society' perspective on disaster resilience gained broad political support, leading to the creation of the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB)... |
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date: 17 April 2012 'The nuclear industry is responding to the lessons learned from Fukushima with actions that provide the greatest safety benefit in the quickest amount of time,' said Tony Pietrangelo, the Nuclear Energy Institute's senior vice president and chief nuclear officer... |
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date: 2 April 2012 Curtis S. Chin writing for The Japan Times poses the question: 'Will Japan's politicians and bureaucrats come together and heed a simple lesson that other policymakers faced with massive rebuilding efforts have learned before — namely, that bigger is not always better on the road to recovery?'... |
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date: 27 March 2012 Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today outlined 'emergency response, disaster risk reduction and resilience building' as one of the five areas that deserve greater attention as the world community strives to ensure nuclear security... |
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date: 26 March 2012 The Brookings report found that 'In comparison with the previous decade, the number of disasters and the number of people affected by disasters in 2011 were both below average. But 2011 was the most expensive year in history in terms of disaster losses — primarily because of the $210 billion loss experienced by Japan'... |
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date: 12 March 2012 Japan was indeed prepared for a tsunami—it was prepared for a once-in-200-years tsunami. It wasn’t prepared for a once-in-a-millennium tsunami. Can officials invest in reducing the risk of an event that might or might not occur in the lifetime of their great-grandchildren? |
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date: 9 March 2012 'Do you agree to people living on the shoreline? Is the government ready to actually legislate that this is not reasonable, that it is high risk, that it is costly? If you are the government, you think you should service your population, but is it reasonable to service them wherever they live?' asked Margareta Wahlström... |
date: 9 March 2012 According to two reports that came this week, the Fukushima nuclear accident was to a large extent preventable, despite the complex situation with cascading disasters, reveals Aron Lamm in his article for The Epoch Times... |
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date: 8 March 2012 'Green Cross urges all countries now to establish much stricter and enforceable international standards for both safety and security, to be monitored by an international body such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)'... |
date: 7 March 2012 Stress tests were conducted in all 14 Member States that operate nuclear power plants to assess whether they can withstand the effects of natural disasters including earthquakes, flooding, extreme cold, extreme heat, snow, ice, storms, tornados, heavy rain and other extreme natural conditions... |
date: 6 March 2012 'As the Hyogo Framework comes to an end, it is important to start thinking now about its replacement, which will guide us through the thicket of risks emerging in the urbanized, interdependent world of the twenty-first century,' writes Margareta Wahlström, Head of UNISDR... |
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date: 5 March 2012 'Building codes pay, early warning systems pay, it saves lives. Drills, training, public education and awareness also pay off and save lives,' said the UN disaster risk reduction chief... |
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date: 5 March 2012 'Further lessons would continue to be learned from the Fukushima accident, as they were from earlier accidents such as Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, and that strong cooperation between the IAEA and WANO would be a vital element in this process'... |
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date: 15 February 2012 'If they had made the decision earlier, then they could have been prepared on March 11,' said Hideyuki Hirakawa, an Osaka University expert on governance and the sciences. 'There is absolutely nothing you can do in four days'... |
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date: 14 February 2012 While the scientists can’t predict when an earthquake in Fukushima Daiichi will occur, they say the ascending fluids observed in the area indicate such an event is likely to occur in the near future and call for more attention to be paid to the site’s ability to withstand strong earthquakes and reduce future risk... |
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date: 2 February 2012 'My call is to donors such as Korea and Japan to work with experienced Asian civil society organizations such as Save the Children to properly fund and adequately support disaster risk reduction and disaster preparedness activities across Asia'... |
date: 31 January 2012 IAEA issued a report calling for the Japanese Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency （NISA） to 'ensure that in the Secondary Assessment the provisions for mitigation of severe accidents should be addressed more comprehensively'... |
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date: 31 January 2012 The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the US Department of Energy (DOE), and the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) released a new seismic study today that will help US nuclear facilities in the central and eastern United States reassess seismic hazards... |
date: 12 January 2012 The seventh edition of the Global Risks report emphasizes the 'importance of flexibility and resilience in response structures,' giving an example of quickly resumed business after the disaster thanks to networked preparedness... |
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date: 12 January 2012 The Green blog reports that the US nuclear industry is preparing to present regulators with a streamlined package of voluntary safety improvements that it says could be put into effect quickly, citing one of the design problems of Fukushima... |
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date: 10 January 2012 Les exploitants ont jusqu’à fin mars 2012 pour apporter les preuves de la maîtrise d’un séisme survenant une fois tous les 10’000 ans et de la combinaison séisme – défaillance due au séisme de barrages dans la zone d’influence des centrales nucléaires... |
date: 3 January 2012 Industry operators must come forward by 30 June with measures they would take in response to floods and earthquakes, 'preventing a serious accident or limiting its spread' and 'limiting massive [radioactive] releases', reports the BBC... |
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date: 28 December 2011 'This is an important moment to compare what is really likely to happen over the next 10 years with the industry’s expectations' of a nuclear renaissance. 'When that comparison is performed properly, it becomes clear that we are witnessing not a revival but a collapse in expectations for new reactor construction.'... |
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date: 19 December 2011 The Hungarian government calls on an EU-wide risk-sharing community of industrial actors, designed to meet the needs of future challenges related to major industrial disasters considering the magnitude of damages caused by major industrial accidents... |
date: 8 December 2011 A government panel investigating the Fukushima nuclear crisis will highlight in its report that measures could have been taken to prevent the tsunami from damaging the Fukushima No. 1 power plant, reports the Japan Times... |
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date: 6 December 2011 The Wall Street Journal reports that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko said Tuesday the agency was moving forward with rules to tighten the safety and preparedness of U.S. nuclear plants... |
date: 1 December 2011 On the sidelines of COP17: 'the world had to pay more attention to external natural events such as seismic events and tsunamis, as well as severe accident management and emergency preparedness needed to be improved.'... |
date: 16 November 2011 To independently check the reliability of the tsunami countermeasures, the Shizuoka Prefectural Government formed a tsunami committee within its disaster prevention and nuclear power science council... |
date: 3 November 2011 'Although it is highly unlikely that any US nuclear energy facility would ever suffer the devastating effect of a combined earthquake and tsunami, Fukushima has rightfully triggered another hard look at the safety and security of America’s reactors'... |
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date: 27 October 2011 The findings of a new study by an international team of researchers who probed into the Fukushima nuclear disaster suggest that earthquake prone areas should be treated as 'atomic power plant free zones'... |
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date: 20 October 2011 The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will immediately begin implementing seven safety recommendations from an agency task force that developed them after studying Japan's Fukushima reactor disaster, the NRC said on Thursday... |
date: 12 October 2011 Taiwan and China have agreed to cooperate more closely on nuclear power safety and disaster preparedness in the wake of Japan's atomic crisis this year, Taipei authorities said Wednesday... |
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date: 11 October 2011 The review, ordered by the government following the Japanese experience, pinpointed critical areas for concern, including risks associated with flooding, the layout of plants, and the state of preparedness for emergencies... |
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date: 29 September 2011 'After Fukushima, we have drawn lessons on all aspects of reactor safety and one positive development is the integrated disaster management plan,' the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board chairman S.S. Bajaj said... |
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date: 22 September 2011 Unanimously endorsed on 22 September 2011, the Action Plan on Nuclear Safety contains concrete and achievable actions to make nuclear safety post-Fukushima more robust and effective than before... |