By contrast, the Chernobyl disaster, by far the worst nuclear power accident in history, has to date killed about 65 people.
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The 2011 nuclear-power-plant accident scared away visitors worried about radiation.
You write eloquently and with more nuance in your paper, The Impact of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Nuclear Power.
In 1982, Sandia National Laboratories simulated the impacts of a catastrophic accident at nuclear power plants on the surrounding environment for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.
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They blamed the global economic crisis and Germany's decision to phase out nuclear power in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident in Japan.
Ironically, since Germany has shut down some of its older nuclear plants in response to the nuclear accident in Japan, they now have to import nuclear power from France and the Czech Republic.
"Although triggered by these cataclysmic events, the subsequent accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant cannot be regarded as a natural disaster, " it said.
The same is true of the boom in shale gas in America, the recession in Europe and the accident at the Fukushima nuclear-power plant in Japan.
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The original No Nukes concerts, held after the Three Mile Island accident, helped derail the growth of nuclear power in the United States.
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Plagued by scandals and investors' jitters, the Visaginas project is again moving ahead: since Japan's nuclear accident, firms wanting to build nuclear-power plants have become less choosy about the conditions.
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Support for nuclear power had dropped to 46 percent in the wake of the Fukushima accident, Marion said.
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White House spokesman Jay Carney said Monday that Mr. Obama continued to support nuclear power, and that the administration would incorporate lessons from the Japanese accident into regulations.
As part of my job, I reported alarming inadequacies: in one case high-grade equipment (ASME III, class 1) was operated in nuclear power reactors with no accepted safety file, regardless of a previous accident and a half-dozen failures in achieving acceptable design results.
The Japanese nuclear accident has come at a delicate time for the nuclear-power industry, growing globally, for the first time in decades as a new generation of "passive" designs is being embraced as offering more safety.
But should the Fukushima accident be used as a reason for putting an end to nuclear power?
The nuclear accident has proven a very big deal for Japan and for nuclear power around the world.
And although a growing nationwide movement in favor of nuclear power exists, no new plants have been announced since the Three Mile Island nuclear accident in 1979.
Japanese officials have said the plutonium would strictly be used for power generation, even as just two of Japan's 50 power reactors are running because of the safety concerns raised by the 2011 Fukushima nuclear accident.
Proposing an urgent question to Mr Huhne on 11 October 2011, Mr Flynn accused the government of colluding with the energy companies to ensure the accident in Japan did not derail plans for the next generation of UK nuclear power stations.
This belief was further cemented by the Fukushima accident and Tokyo's subsequent announcement that it was drastically scaling back its nuclear-power program.
No new plants have been ordered there since the accident at Three Mile Island in Pennsylvania in 1979 (when radioactive gas escaped from a nuclear power plant), though some that were being built were completed.
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