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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