The Fukushima Daiichi accident and its far-reaching effects

摘要

No one could have predicted the extraordinary events that occurred one year ago in Japan: an earthquake of such magnitude that it triggered a tsunami that washed villages off the map-people and their homes and belongings swept away by the sea, never to be seen again. Many of those who survived have nothing to return to; some remain displaced. The videos of the disaster are dramatic and horrific, and the effects on the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant have taken the global nuclear industry on a path it would rather not have had to take.