Fukushima Accident
Review of safety improvement on sodium cooled fast reactors after Fukushima accident
... After the Fukushima accident, additional safety meas- ures, similar to light water reactors in Japan, have been employed in Monju [2]. The Monju plant is placed at 21 m higher than the sea level, so there ...
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Transparency and View Regarding Nuclear Energy Before and After the Fukushima Accident: Evidence on Micro data
... First, I will discuss the results in Table 3. The results for TRANS, TRANS1, and TRANS2 yielded positive signs and were statistically significant in all estimations. The absolute values for TRANS are 0.03 and 0.04, ...
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Seismic Assessment of CANDU6 NPPs after Fukushima Accident
... the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident, Candu had successfully completed seismic capacity assessment for several nuclear power plants using either the CDFM method or the Fragility Analysis (FA) ...
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Effect of the Fukushima accident on saving electricity: The case of the Japanese Professional Baseball League
... The Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011 was followed by the Fukushima nuclear accident. Such an unforeseen devastating event, considered as an exogenous shock, had a detrimental effect on Japan’s ...
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Artificial radionuclides in neon flying squid from the northwestern Pacific in 2011 following the Fukushima accident
... the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FDNPP) accident on a commercial marine species, neon flying squid (Om- mastrephes bartramii) samples obtained from the northwest- ern Pacific in November 2011 were ...
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Effect of transparency on changing views regarding nuclear energy before and after Fukushima accident
... 2004). The quality and quantity of information regarding nuclear energy was important in forming views about nuclear energy after the incident on March 11, 2011. Yamamura (2012) examined the role of media and its effect ...
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Effect of free media on views regarding nuclear energy after the Fukushima accident
... Using cross-country data, this paper investigates how governance influenced views regarding the security of nuclear energy after the Fukushima accident in Japan. Key findings are: (1) citizens are less ...
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Nuclear Industry Organizations: Shaped by Accidents
... The Fukushima accident is addressed as a method for the examination of the VSM method and its utility is seeing the ‘big’ picture as far as the decision-making aspects of organizations are ...an ...
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Impact of the Fukushima nuclear accident on the body mass index of students in Japan
... in Fukushima, Iwate, and Miyagi with changes in BMIs in other prefectures over the same ...include Fukushima, Iwate, and Miyagi prefectures because the Great East Japan earthquake directly hit these ...
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The Fukushima Nuclear Accident: Insights on the Safety Aspects
... The Fukushima nuclear accident has generated doubts and questions which need to be properly understood and ...the Fukushima nuclear accident, focusing at the common cause failures produced by ...
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Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident and Nuclear Physicists
... to Fukushima prefecture on the 21st of ...the Fukushima-prefecture local ...by Fukushima prefecture, about 27,000 people were monitored by the 30th of March, and about 15 % was carried out by nuclear ...
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Design Basis Vs. Beyond Basis Considerations in Operating Nuclear Plants
... Based on the lessons learned from the Fukushima Accident (2011), U.S.NRC has issued various information requests requiring plant licensees to evaluate the current design to evaluate and cope with beyond ...
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Sociotechnical Environments. Actors, Technologies, Geographies and New Kinds of Action
... the Fukushima accident, the- se compensations were set up by TEPCO, the operator who caused the accident, following the recommendations made by a special panel of ex- perts under the Ministry of ...
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Dr K.Vivehananthan Wayamba University of Sri Lanka Makandura,Gonawila (NWP).
... organizations accident-prone. The Fukushima accident resulted not simply from mismanagement, but from selective decisions about necessary and seemingly sufficient safety measures which, however, did ...
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Impact of the Fukushima nuclear accident on obesity of children in Japan, using data from 2008 to 2014
... the Fukushima accident in 2011 by comparing disaster-damaged and other areas for each ...the accident, the average BMI z- score was significantly higher in children in both damaged and other ...the ...
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Feeling Unsafe: Exploring the Impact of Nuclear Evacuation
... the Fukushima accident came as a surprise to the majority of people in Japan, shaking their faith in the government to always give priority to their ...FDNPS accident has proven to be a political, ...
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An assessment of radiation doses at an educational institution 57.8 km away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 1 month after the nuclear accident
... Comparing surface properties of the ground for mea- surement at 1 cm above the surface, asphalt had signifi- cantly lower radiation dose rates, whereas grass had significantly higher count rates. These results seem to ...
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Hemispheric dispersion of radioactive plume laced with fission nuclides from the Fukushima nuclear event
... the Fukushima radiation after the hemispheric dispersion may be around five orders of magnitude for each of 131 I and 137 Cs as their activity concentrations decreased from 10 0 and 10 1 Bq/m 3 , respectively, at ...
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German energy market fallout from the Japanese earthquake
... The German “Atomausstieg” decision to have a nuclear moratorium following the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan in March 2011 was unexpected and significant. Germany was heavily dependent on nuclear power; in ...
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Obstetric Outcomes in Women in Fukushima Prefecture during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Accident: The Fukushima Health Management Survey
... nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (Tokyo Electric ...in Fukushima prefecture during and after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear power plant ...
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