The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will send a mission to Japan to help the country in its planning to remediate areas around the Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear power plant, which was hit by an earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.
Six months after the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan, solid majorities of Americans still view nuclear energy favourably and support the extension of operating licences at existing facilities that meet safety standards, a survey shows.
The Swiss Senate this week approved proposals not to replace the country’s nuclear plants and to opt for a nuclear-free future in the wake of the accident at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan.
The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is setting up a nuclear safety action team to oversee “prompt implementation” of a nuclear safety action plan that was drawn up in the wake of the Fukushima-Daiichi accident in Japan.
The UK public appears to be uninfluenced by the Fukushima accident in Japan. According to a poll carried out by Populus and commissioned by the British Science Association (BSA) some 41 percent of respondents agreed the benefits of nuclear power outweighed the risk. This was up from 38 percent in a similar poll in 2010 and 32 percent in 2005. In addition the number of people who think the UK should build more nuclear plants has risen dramatically since 2005. Now 23 percent agree as compared with only 9 percent in 2005.
