Radiation Spikes at Fukishima, Worldwide Impacts, “Longest Running, Continuous Industrial Disaster in History” | Asia-Pacific Research
Almost six years after a tsunami caused a meltdown at the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, the facility’s operator, Tokyo Electric
Power (Tepco) faces overwhelming
problems to clean up the site. Tepco now reports radiation in reactor 2
that would kill a worker in thirty seconds, and even destroys robots.
Juan
Carlos Lentijo of the International Atomic Energy Agency looks at tanks
holding contaminated water and the Unit 4 and Unit 3 reactor buildings
during a February 2015 tour of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant. (Photo: Susanna Loof / IAEA, Flickr CC BY-NC-ND
2.0)
Carlos Lentijo of the International Atomic Energy Agency looks at tanks
holding contaminated water and the Unit 4 and Unit 3 reactor buildings
during a February 2015 tour of the tsunami-stricken Fukushima Daiichi
nuclear power plant. (Photo: Susanna Loof / IAEA, Flickr CC BY-NC-ND
2.0)
