Where To Stream Documentary 360 Season 2021 Episode 14
Decommissioning Fukushima 2021 Ten Years on from the Nuclear Accident
- Aired May 30, 2021
- 50 Min
A decade on from its triple core meltdown, we take stock of the mammoth task of decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, an undertaking fraught with both technical and social challenges. The Japanese government maintains the process will take up to 40 years, but the schedule has already been revised 5 times, with pivotal elements postponed. Meanwhile, as people return to their homes in surrounding areas, the issue of how to dispose of unprecedented volumes of radioactive waste...