The Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
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The Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Nuclear Accident has been delving into the causes of the nuclear accident at TEPCO’s Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station and the failure to contain its damage from an independent, private-sector perspective. The Commission announced its 420-page Report after six months of thoroughgoing research and analysis on February 28th, 2012. A detailed testimony by one of the workers at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant is the prologue of the Report. It describes what the worker saw and experienced during the first hours after the plant had been stricken by the earthquakes and tsunami. The main text consists of four parts:
Part 1: The damage and accident responses at the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plants
Part 2: The emergency responses taken by the government ministries, local governments and first responders; crisis management by Prime Minister’s Office; and the reality of chaotic evacuation
Part 3: The historical context and structural factors that led to the negligence of safety improvement
Part 4: Global contexts: International nuclear safety regime, nuclear security and US-Japan relations
The English edition of the Research Investigation Report has been published from Routledge on March 6th 2014.
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Chairman of the Fukushima Investigation
The accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, which occurred in the aftermath of the magnitude-9.0 earthquake that devastated eastern Japan on March 11, 2011, gave rise to a host of serious problems with direct implications for…
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We established the “Independent Investigation Commission on the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Accident” in September 2011. This commission will operate independently of the Japanese government’s Investigation Committee on the Accidents at the Fukushima Nuclear Power Station of Tokyo Electric Power…
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