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Japan Times (03/24/2021): "Japan's regulator set to ban Tepco from restarting Niigata nuclear plant."
基於嚴重的核安顧慮，日本原子力規制委員會（日本官方的核能監管機構）決定禁止日本東京電力重新啟動位於新潟市（Niigata）的柏崎刈羽核電廠（Kashiwazaki-Kariwa Nuclear Power Plant）。
完整內容請見：
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2021/03/24/national/tepco-kashiwazaki-kariwa-niigata-nuclear-energy
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Taiwan's Atomic Energy Council said Monday it will continue to contact Japan on how the country plans to deal with contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, which is expected to run out of storage space in 2022.
My heart cries for everyone in Beirut and the explosion that happened there.
This is my painting "Whereabouts of God" #38 which is a new addition to my series I’ve been painting since 2011. It's originally inspired by the nuclear power plant accident that happened after the earthquake in Japan. Even though Beirut's accident was not nuclear, I am reminded about this tragedy. The peaceful every day collapsed in an instant. Immediately, I felt the need to bring to mind serious issues that I was not previously aware of or could not see. I choose to express this with positive visuals. In this series, I'm thinking about the problems we all have in the world, expressing my hopelessless but also looking for hope towards the future. 🌟🙏
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Takuya Yoshida Original song - Kyomei
From the album "Kyomei".
English Word : Nicholas Edwards ニコラス・エドワーズ
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クリエイティブ・コモンズにより以下の方の動画を作中にて使用しています。
・Pax PhongTrinh channel[Water Lantern Festival 2018]
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・Timothy Stone [Buddist Floating Lanterns in Long Ditton]
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A Japanese High School with a unique concept in Fukushima that is the first of its kind.
Fukushima Futaba Mirai Gakuen (a.k.a Futaba Future High School) opened two years ago near the evacuation zone of the nuclear power plant in Fukushima for the young students living in the area.
Ever since the tsunami, all I have seen and heard on the media is the negative things about Fukushima - I mean I get it, that’s what makes the headlines and catches peoples attention… and I have to admit even for me, before going to Fukushima, I pretty much had a negative connotation when someone brought up the word "Fukushima".
I thought it was a dangerous place to go because of the radiation etc… However, after going this time, I realised that wasn’t the case.
I felt behind all the negative things said in the media, were all these locals trying to get their voices heard by trying to make a movement and help their community become a better place.
So I had to make this video to help them spread the word and show people another side of Fukushima and their kind welcoming locals who are open to share with you their stories.
Thank you to all the students/teachers and locals I met. You guys are an inspiration. Keep on doing what you do!!!!!!
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★DISCOVERY CHANNEL "FUKUSHIMA DIARIES" DOCUMENTARY★
I filmed this video while on a documentary shoot with Discovery Channel, so don't miss their show "Fukushima Diaries" airing on TV throughout Asia or available to watch online after December 10th from this link:
http://josen.env.go.jp/en/movie_publication/fukushima_diaries.html
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10 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT FUKUSHIMA NUCLEAR DISASTER 福島第一原子力発電所事故
The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster was caused by the massive tsunami triggered by the Tohoku Earthquake on March 11th, 2011. This was a Level 7 nuclear event, comparable only to Chernobyl.
1. Unheeded Warning
Before the disaster even happened, there were industry experts who warned of mega tsunami-generating earthquakes hitting the area every 800 to 1100 years, with the next one being overdue. But those in charge dismissed such warnings.
2. No Good Robots
During the crisis at Fukushima, high radiation levels at the plant made it desperately hard for human workers to do what they needed to do.
Back in 2001, the Japanese had actually developed extremely capable robots that were deemed technical successes, but then a government task force concluded that a Chernobyl-scale disaster was never going to happen in Japan .
The program was shut down and the robots were dismantled or donated.
3. Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant
The Onagawa Nuclear Power Plant was the closest power plant to the earthquake epicentre, yet it successfully withstood the barrage.
While the Fukushima Plant had sea walls up to 5.7 meters, Onagawa had it up to 14 meters.
4. Wrongful Evacuation
Due to miscommunication between the evacuation authorities and the experts who were analysing the fallout, many residents were evacuated from pretty safe areas right INTO the radioactive plume.
5. Evacuation Deaths
More people were killed by the evacuation process in Fukushima
than by the actual earthquake and tsunami, the disaster itself.
People died of fatigue, exhaustion, illness, suicides - losing their homes, not knowing where they would end up, cramped evacuation centres; the whole ordeal was taxing.
6. Geiger-Counter Hobby
After the Fukushima disaster, random radiation hot spots were discovered in unexpected locations.
Radiation levels as high as those in the no-go zone were detected as far as some Tokyo suburbs. This prompted many Japanese residents to take up a new hobby - walking with Geiger-counters through their city or village in search for random radiation levels to report.
7. Animal Guardian
55 year old Naoto Matsumura is the only man brave enough to live in Fukushima’s no-go zone. After the initial evacuation, he returned back
to take care of the animals that were left behind. Not just his animals, but everyone’s.
8. Mutations
There were a few small scale Fukushima discoveries.
9. Human Radiation Effects
No one died from radiation exposure in Fukushima.
And contrary to a well-publicised, yet poorly-executed, study
that made the rounds in 2015, thyroid cancer rates in Fukushima children were actually lower than the national average.
10. Disobedient Hero
Masao Yoshida was the manager of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant and on March 15th 2011, he lead a brave group, now dubbed ‘The Fukushima 50’ into the radioactive trenches.
With cooling systems crippled and having run out of fresh water, Yoshida decided they would pump seawater straight from the ocean into the damaged reactors.
Then corporate headquarters (TEPCO) ordered him to stop the seawater injection. They didn’t want the corrosive seawater to permanently damage their reactors.
Feeling his superiors were inept for risking a colossal radioactive fallout, Yoshida disobeyed the direct order and continued with the seawater injection.
Many experts now agree that his actions on that day
arguably prevented a much greater catastrophe.
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