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Decommissioning Fukushima: The Battle to Contain Radioactivity

Decommissioning Fukushima: The Battle to Contain Radioactivity

2014•43m
Documentary

TEPCO's Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is the site of one of history's worst nuclear disasters: the meltdown of three nuclear reactors. The decommissioning program in Japan learns from the Three Mile Island decommissioning in the US after the nuclear plant accident in 1976 in Pennsylvania.

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NHK

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EN

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