Fukushima

• South Korea mulls court challenge over Japan’s move to dump Fukushima water in sea

  South Korea strongly protested against the decision, summoning Tokyo's ambassador in Seoul and convening an intra-agency emergency meeting to craft its response.

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  Apr 14
• Japan to dump wastewater from Fukushima nuclear disaster in the ocean

  Japan has decided to clean and dump some 1.25 million tonnes of radioactive wastewater from the nuclear disaster in Fukushima.

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  Apr 13
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• Japan to start releasing water from Fukushima nuclear plant into sea in 2 years

  The decision, long speculated but delayed for years due to safety concerns and protests, came at a meeting of Cabinet ministers who endorsed the ocean release as the best option.

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  Apr 12
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• Japan honours victims of tsunami, Fukushima nuclear disaster on 10th anniversary

  Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga were slated to mourn the dead at a commemorative anniversary ceremony in Tokyo.

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  Mar 10
• 7.3 magnitude earthquake detected off Japan coast injuring dozens, triggering blackouts

  Houses and offices in the capital Tokyo, hundreds of kilometres away, also swayed and shook. No tsunami warning had been issued, the meteorological agency said.

  Environment

  Feb 13
• What happened to… the Great East Japan earthquake and Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis

  On this episode of the Global News podcast 'Whatever happened to…?', journalist Erica Vella revisits the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and the nuclear crisis that followed.

  Nov 19, 2020
• Japan to release 1M tonnes of Fukushima’s contaminated water into sea: reports

  Nearly a decade after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japan's government has decided to release over one million tonnes of contaminated water into the sea, media reports said on Friday.

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  Oct 16, 2020
• From wildfires to ISIS: These satellite images tell the story of a decade

  Spanning the globe, some stories were expected while others caught the world off guard. Some, including the Rohingya exodus, Arab Spring, BP oil spill and the melting of glaciers so massive they were visible from space through the satellite imagery of Maxar Technologies.

  Dec 23, 2019
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• Radiation hot spots found near Fukushima 2020 Olympic torch site: Greenpeace

  Athletes from around the world are expected to travel to Japan when the 2020 Games open in July.

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  Dec 4, 2019
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• Japan may dump radioactive water from Fukushima into Pacific Ocean

  More than eight years after an earthquake and tsunami ravaged a Fukushima power plant, Japan has not formally decided what to do with contaminated water from the incident.

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  Sep 10, 2019