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On 11 March 2011 the lives of hundreds of thousands of people in Japan changed forever. An earthquake and tsunami destroyed towns and villages on the northeast coast. What started as a natural disaster, turned into one of the worst industrial accidents in human history and a reminder that humanity must urgently turn its efforts towards safe, clean renewables.

The Fukushima nuclear disaster showed once again the inherent risks of nuclear power and exposed the failures in the whole system. Politicians and regulators ignored their responsibility to protect the public and the nuclear industry was not made accountable for its disasters. Similar systematic problems can be found in every country operating nuclear reactors.

We have to phase out dangerous nuclear power entirely, and do so as soon as possible. Every reactor can fail and put millions at risk. We need to learn the lessons from Fukushima.

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Technical failures increase risk of contaminated Fukushima water discharge into Pacific – Greenpeace

"The decision not to develop water processing technology...was motivated by short term cost cutting not protection of the Pacific ocean environment or the health and livelihoods of communities.."

Greenpeace International
22 Jan 2019
3 min read
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Nuclear power and the collapse of society

On March 1 1954, on Bikini Atoll, in the Marshall Islands, the US military detonated the world’s first lithium-deuteride hydrogen bomb, a thousand times more powerful than the Hiroshima and…

Rex Weyler
5 May 2017
8 min read

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