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Volume 11 - Issue 12 - March 2013

Contents

Research Article

  • A Lasting Legacy of the Fukushima Rescue Mission: Cat and Mouse with a Nuclear Ghost

  • Roger Witherspoon
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    07 May 2025, e1
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  • This is part two of a two part series.

    For several days, the winds from the destroyed nuclear reactors at Fukushima Daiichi crashed head on into the myth of the radioactive plume.

  • Abe at Ground Zero: the consequences of inaction at Fukushima Daiichi

  • Christopher Hobson, Andrew DeWit
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    07 May 2025, e2
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  • Japan's searing summer of 2013 saw the lid slide further off Fukushima Daiichi and its Pandora's box of radioactive and political crises. The company in charge, Tokyo Electric Power Company (Tepco), already Japan's most distrusted firm, was irredeemably exposed as dangerously incompetent. A slew of reports concerning leaks of high-level radiation led to increasingly concerned appeals, from within Japan and from overseas, for the Abe Shinzo government to take over at Fukushima Daiichi.