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Lessons from Fukushima: Catalysing an energy revolution (2012)

Auteur	Greenpeace, T.Morris-Suzuki, D.Boilley
Datum	februari 2012
Classificatie	4.21.8.60/05 (JAPAN - FUKUSHIMA (Dai’ichi ongeluk))
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Executive Summary

It has been almost 12 months since the Fukushima nuclear disaster began. Although 
the Great East Japan earthquake and the following tsunami triggered it, the key 
causes of the nuclear accident lie in the institutional failures of political influence 
and industry-led regulation. It was a failure of human institutions to acknowledge 
real reactor risks, a failure to establish and enforce appropriate nuclear safety 
standards and a failure to ultimately protect the public and the environment.

This report, commissioned by Greenpeace International, addresses what lessons 
can be taken away from this catastrophe. The one-year memorial of the Fukushima 
accident offers a unique opportunity to ask ourselves what the tragedy - which is 
far from being over for hundreds of thousands of Japanese people- has taught us. 
And it also raises the question, are we prepared to learn?

There are broader issues and essential questions that still deserve our attention:

• How it is possible that - despite all assurances-a major nuclear accident on the 
scale of the Chernobyl disaster of 1986 happened again, in one of the world's most 
industrially advanced countries?

• Why did emergency and evacuation plans not work to protect people from 
excessive exposure to the radioactive fallout and resulting contamination? Why is 
the government still failing to better protect its citizens from radiation one year later?

• Why are the over 1 00,000 people who suffer the most from the impacts of the 
nuclear accident still not receiving adequate financial and social support to help 
them rebuild their homes, lives and communities?

These are the fundamental questions that we need to ask to be able to learn from 
the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This report looks into them and draws some 
important conclusions:

1. The Fukushima nuclear accident marks the end of the 'nuclear safety' paradigm.

2. The Fukushima nuclear accident exposes the deep and systemic failure of the
very institutions that are supposed to control nuclear power and protect people 
from its accidents.

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