16 facts on the TEPCO Fukushima nuclear disaster and Japan’s energy policy

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6 Nuclear power on global decline: Trends in reactor startups and closures

Nuclear power is declining globally. As of 2019, 417 nuclear reactors were operating in 31 countries. That includes 272 ...
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5 Nuclear power plant exports: Failures continue

The Japanese government and industry have been trying to export nuclear power, but failures mount. Japanese government h...
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4 Conditions of evacuees

Evacuees continue to suffer financially nearly a decade later. In March 2017, the Japanese government and Fukushima Pref...
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3 Evacuees

The government has terminated housing support for evacuees, practically forcing them to return home. Since the number of...
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2 Disaster-related deaths and suicides

The earthquake took a heavy toll in deaths and suicides. The number of disaster-related deaths after the Great East Japa...
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1 Chronology of areas under evacuation orders

Thousands of people had to evacuate due to the nuclear accident.