Opinion: Five years after Fukushima, there are big lessons for nuclear disaster liability
Tuesday, March 15, 2016 - 06:30
in Earth & Climate
As four reactors at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power plant suffered catastrophic cooling failures and exploded in March 2011, the world watched in disbelief. For Japan, this was not just the greatest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. It was "the most severe crisis … since World War II."