By Jessica Jordan, Rob Sachs: One year ago this week Japan was devastated by a 9.0 earthquake and ensuing tsunami. The disaster was compounded by a nuclear disaster at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant, a 12 miles exclusion zone still surrounds building housing a nuclear reactor, which exploded and 3 other reactors that melted down. The sheer numbers of those affected by the disaster is hard to wrap around your head. And estimated 19000 people perished and left another 325 thousand without permanent housing. We want to talk about the aftermath of the disaster, so we arranged for the international panel to discuss the issue of Japan’s response and the future of nuclear power. So, we are now joined by Adrian Heymer, Nuclear Energy Institute’s Executive Director of Strategic Programs and Industry’s Fukushima Response Coordination and Strategy Specialist for Regulatory Matters, and Dominique French, Campaigner and Activist for the Nuclear Information and Resource Service, she focuses on expanding emergency planning zones for nuclear reactors, and Daniel Aldrich, Associate Professor of Political science at Purdue University. Tags: tsunami, World, Fukushima-1, earthquake in Japan, Commentary, Society, Читать далее, Source: Voice of Russia.
