The State of Affairs and Ongoing Challenges of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
March 2015. The present report is a provisional and partial translation of the comprehensive Japanese report, Our Path to a Nuclear-Free Japan: Policy Outline for a Nuclear Phaseout, published in April 2014 by the Citizens’ Commission on Nuclear Energy (CCNE)
The report intends to answer questions such as:
- What have been the impacts of the Fukushima nuclear disaster?
- What is the current condition of the victims of the nuclear disaster?
- What is going on at the nuclear plant site and what risks still exist?
- What mistakes did authorities make in response to the nuclear disaster?
- What countermeasures are now necessary to cope with the situation?
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