facility:fukushima daiichi plant

Radioactive #Fukushima - The Big Picture - The Boston Globe
▻http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2015/03/31/radioactive-fukushima/tt50tcUhg1DPhd5C9rb4kN/story.html

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Many residents of Okuma, a village near the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant, are angry about government plans to dump some 30 million tons of radioactive debris raked up after the March 2011 nuclear disaster in a sprawling waste complex on their doorstep. Few believe Tokyo’s assurances that the site will be cleaned up and shut down after 30 years. In the four years since the disaster, Japan has allocated over $15 billion to lower radiation levels around the plant. Every day, teams of workers blast roads with water, scrub down houses, cut branches and scrape contaminated soil off farmland. That radiated trash now sits in plastic sacks across the region, piling up in abandoned rice paddies, parking lots and even residents’ backyards.—By Reuters

Japan Nuclear Plant May Be Worse Off Than Thought
►http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/30/world/asia/inquiry-suggests-worse-damage-at-japan-nuclear-plant.html

The damage to one of three stricken reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could be worse than previously thought, a recent internal investigation has shown, raising new concerns over the plant’s stability and complicating the post-disaster cleanup.

#nucléaire #environnement

Fukushima radiation fear in Tokyo after danger reading | The Guardian
►http://www.guardian.co.uk/global/2011/oct/13/fukushima-radiation-tokyo-contamination-reading

Concerns that contamination from the Fukushima Daiichi plant has spread over a wider area than at first thought have deepened after elevated levels of radiation were found in Tokyo and other areas far from the facility.

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Japan’s silent anger (Le Monde diplomatique)
►http://mondediplo.com/2011/08/05fukushima

Just because the Japanese are not out demonstrating about what happened at the Fukushima Daiichi plant doesn’t mean they aren’t frightened and resentful, only that protest isn’t the Japanese way (...)

A #GIS analysis of the number of people living near each of the world’s nuclear power plants
►http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2011/04/a_gis_analysis_of_the_number_o.html

It shows, for example, that two-thirds of the world’s power plants have more people living within a 30-kilometre radius than the 172,000 people living within 30 kilometres of the Fukushima Daiichi plant. Some 21 plants have populations larger than 1 million within that radius, and six have populations larger than 3 million. One hundred and fifty-two nuclear power plants have more than 1 million people living within 75 kilometres. There’s lots more other insights in the detailed data.

I’ve published the full results in the form of a map which is best viewed using the desktop version of Google Earth — you can download my map file here. The map plots every one of the world’s nuclear plants with circle size indicating the number of people living within 75 km of each plant.

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/indianpoint.jpg

#cartographie #nucléaire #accident