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Social Consequences of the Fukushima Accident: 2019 Report

Featured, Reports March 11, 2019 at 7:52 pm 0 comments

A research report by IRSN and SciencesPo on the 8 years of the ongoing accident in Fukushima.

Workers at a school ground in Namie Town, Fukushima prefecture, Japan. In March 2017 the Japanese government opened this area of Namie for people to return. Greenpeace radiation surveys in October 2018, showed high levels of contamination in the forests surrounding this school. Over 70,000 workers have been employed in recent years in Fuksuhima. United Nations Special Rapporteurs on human rights warned in 2018 of the urgent situation for workers, including homeless, who were reportedly being exploited by hundreds of sub contractors. This area of Iitate was opened by the government in March 2017, but still radiation levels remain high in areas of Iitate and above government decontamination targets.

Fukushima women and children on the frontline: Greenpeace report exposes continued radiation risks on 8 years of nuclear accident

Fukushima, Nuclear and Children, Nuclear and Gender, Reports March 10, 2019 at 12:17 am 0 comments

Latest Greenpeace report on the 8 years of the Fukushima nuclear accident exposes continued radiation risks and human rights violations in Japan.

EPR: A Financial and Technical Disaster That Drowned Europe’s Nuclear Industry, Says EWG’s Latest Report

Reports March 24, 2018 at 12:34 pm 0 comments

The European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), proclaimed in the 1990s as a new impetus for the renaissance the European nuclear industry, proved to be a financial disaster, fulfilling none of the industry promises, a new brief by the Energy Watch Group shows.

Global Nuclear Power in 2017 : Bankruptcies, Shutdowns, Abandoned Constructions Show A Deepening Crisis

Reports January 10, 2018 at 10:16 am 0 comments

The Year 2017 for Global Nuclear Power in a nutshell: 4 reactor startups (12 less than scheduled), 3 shutdowns, 4 construction starts, 2 abandoned constructions, bankruptcy of Westinghouse, bailout and breakup of AREVA, significant financial and economic pressure on nuclear operators. Five new reactors entered long-term outage, and 3 were restarted. Globally, 405 reactors operating (1 less than a year ago), 52 under construction (3 less).