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Fukushima Update | Nuclear News from Japan The Rumor Mill News Reading Room - Breaking Stories TOPIN.cz, teplo, voda, vzduch, technická zařízení budov Home Fukushima isn’t Chernobyl? by SARAH D. PHILLIPS The March 11, 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami caused the deaths of approximately 16,000 persons, left more than 6,000 injured and 2,713 missing, destroyed or partially damaged nearly one million buildings, and produced at least $14.5 billion in damages. The earthquake also caused a triple meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on Japan’s eastern coast. But as reporting on the meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi NPP unfolded, an unsettling story of stonewalling and sloppiness emerged that was eerily reminiscent of the Chernobyl catastrophe. Recently-released video footage of the early days and weeks of the Japanese crisis reveals that some of the same mistakes made during the Soviet state’s blighted response to Chernobyl were repeated at Fukushima Daiichi. No one knows what really happened here” I traveled through northeast Japan with an esteemed group of scholars: Dr. Our guide in Otsuchi was Mr. Consider for instance the town of Namie.

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