Japan backs nuclear time fukushima9/13/2023 ![]() Goldman Sachs said recently that it will invest as much as $487 million in Japanese fuel cell, solar, wind and biomass efforts. A plethora of wind and solar projects were announced, especially in the early days after the Fukushima nuclear plants were shut down. Since the Japanese earthquake and tsunami in 2011, the country has understandably seen an explosion of interest in renewable energy. Choosing a New Board Leader: Eight Questions March 7, 2023.Speak With Confidence: Four Fixes That Work April 11, 2023.It’s Not You - It’s Your Goals: Knowing When to Quit May 30, 2023.Generating Ideas: A Process for Breakthrough Innovation June 14, 2023.Meet the Authors: Wharton’s Katy Milkman on How to Change May 14, 2021.Meet the Authors: Mauro Guillén on How Businesses Succeed in a Global Marketplace June 21, 2021.Meet the Authors: Wharton’s Peter Cappelli on The Future of the Office November 4, 2021.Meet the Authors: Erika James and Lynn Perry Wooten on The Prepared Leader October 3, 2022.How National Politics Are Impacting DEI in the Workplace February 7, 2023.Diversity at Work: Why Inclusive Storytelling Matters April 4, 2023.Improving Accessibility in the Workplace - and in Space May 16, 2023.How Employers Can Support Women’s Reproductive Rights June 20, 2023. ![]() Great Question: Kevin Werbach on Cryptocurrency and Fintech July 21, 2021.Great Question: Dean Erika James on Crisis Management August 16, 2021.Great Question: Wendy De La Rosa on Personal Finance October 15, 2021.Great Question: Witold Henisz on ESG Initiatives November 17, 2021.Making the Business Case for ESG May 3, 2022.How Companies and Capital Can Be Forces for Good June 21, 2022.Investing in Refugee Entrepreneurs in East Africa August 8, 2022.Why Employee-owned Companies Are Better at Building Worker Wealth November 11, 2022.Beyond Business: Humanizing ESG December 13, 2021.How Analytics Is Changing Finance November 29, 2022.How Data Analytics Can Help Deliver Social Good December 20, 2022.How Analytics Can Boost Competitiveness in Sports January 31, 2023.Portions of the town which have been reopened for habitation are located near JR Futaba Station that has many commercial and public facilities. The government will still have to decontaminate locations where people plan to return. Even as the Futaba municipality wants to increase its population to 2,000 by around 2030, just 11 per cent people showed their willingness to return. Kyodo says that the government’s preparatory programme for residents saw just 85 people from 52 households who were prepared to return. With decreasing radiation levels, the government had allowed people to enter some areas but did not allow them to reside.Įven now there is scepticism and fear among some of the residents about moving back. It also inaugurated a new town office for the municipality. It has opened up a police box with one police officer. Japan has been steadily opening up the area for residents. “Although residents are now allowed to return home, over 80 per cent of the municipality, by acreage, remains designated as “difficult-to-return” zones”, reports Kyodo. The Futaba municipality in Fukushima Prefecture town, is among 11 municipalities which have cancelled the evacuation orders. In a major reversal of policy, Japan also plans to develop new nuclear technologies with a view to not only capping energy prices but also generate green energy and decarbonise its energy sector. With a global energy shortage and rising prices, Japan has embarked upon an ambitious plan to restart its shut nuclear reactors. ![]() More than 1,60,000 people had to be evacuated from the town due to radiation fears. The Fukushima nuclear disaster, which was termed the world’s second-worst disaster after Chernobyl, saw nearly 18,500 casualties – a combination of deaths from the earthquake and tsunami. oOJcEN1JWeĭue to radiation fears, Fukushima had become a ghost town with overgrown weeds and crumpled buildings over the past 11 years. Over a decade after the worst nuclear disaster in Japan’s recent history, the town that hosted the disabled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant lifted its evacuation order Tuesday, allowing former residents to return home. The local municipality is preparing for some of the residents to come back. The government has lifted the evacuation order for Fukushima town for the first time since March 2011 after the nuclear disaster struck the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant following an earthquake and a tsunami, reports news agency Koyodo. Japan is encouraging people to come back to Fukushima, the site of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters. The Fukushima nuclear power plant (Photo: IanBremmer/Twitter)
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