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Nuclear News Presents: A Look Back at the Fukushima Daiichi Accident

March 2, 2021|12:00–1:30PM (1:00–2:30PM EST)

Available to All Users

The earthquake and subsequent tsunami that caused three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima Daiichi on March 11, 2011, forever changed the nuclear power industry in Japan and worldwide. This special discussion that revisits Fukushima on the eve of the 10-year anniversary.

A distinguished panel discusses the lessons we’ve learned, the decontamination and decommissioning approach, and future challenges. The panel, which features several principal members of the ANS Special Committee on Fukushima, also examines what the committee got right and what it got wrong in the Fukushima Daiichi report.

Panelists

Lake Barrett, Senior Advisor, TEPCO and IRID
Michael Corradini, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Paul Dickman, Senior Policy Fellow, Argonne National Laboratory
Dale Klein, Former Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
Joy Rempe, Principal, Rempe and Associates, LLC

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Nuclear News, March 2021 (Webinar Attendees-Only)

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