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Nuclear energy, ten years after Fukushima

Amid the urgent need to decarbonize, the industry that delivers one-tenth of global electricity must consult the public on reactor research, design, regulation, location and waste.
  1. Aditi Verma

    1. Aditi Verma is Stanton nuclear security fellow at the Project on Managing the Atom, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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    1. Ali Ahmad is a fellow at the Project on Managing the Atom, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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  3. Francesca Giovannini

    1. Francesca Giovannini is the executive director at the Project on Managing the Atom, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.

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Ten years have passed since a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami damaged the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, triggering the worst nuclear accident since the Chernobyl disaster in 1986.

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Nature 591, 199-201 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-00580-4

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