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Fukushima

After Fukushima, a Fundamental Renewable Energy Shift in Japan Never Happened. Could Global Climate Concerns Bring it Today?

The power of entrenched utilities kept coal and nuclear-electricity on the grid, but a sake brewer in the prefecture devastated by the disaster is pushing locally-generated renewable energy.

By James Simms

Japanese Police wearing protective suits search for tsunami victims about 12 miles away from Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant on April 7, 2011 in Minamisoma, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Credit: Athit Perawongmetha/Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: 10 Years After Fukushima, Safety Is Not the Biggest Problem for the US Nuclear Industry

By Dan Gearino

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

Exclusive: Leak Exposes Culture of Fear at San Onofre

By Elizabeth Douglass

The Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant at Avila Beach in San Luis Obispo County,

U.S. Nuclear Safety Post-Fukushima

By Elizabeth Douglass, InsideClimate News

Citizens protest the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project

India: Prospects Dim for Nuclear Expansion

By Ranjit Devraj, InsideClimate News

Sweden’s Lillgrund offshore wind farm lies in the Öresund Sound between Malmö an

Japan to Tap Wind for Fukushima Coast

By Yoko Kubota, Reuters

German Nuke Closure Forces Big Job Cuts

By Tom Bawden, Guardian

New York City at night

Without Indian Pt, Could NYC Keep Its Lights On?

By Alice Kenny, SolveClimate News

A nuclear plant in Germany

IEA Forecasts 30 Percent CO2 Growth from Nuclear Retreat

By Reuters

Naoto Kan, prime minister of Japan

'Melt-Through' Fears at Fukushima

Justin McCurry, Guardian

Map of Radiation Measurements by Greenpeace

Japan Criticized for Ignoring Tsunami Risk

Justin McCurry, Guardian

New York: Is Indian Point Worth the Risk?

By Alice Kenny, SolveClimate News

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh of India

Will Japan Disaster Affect India's Import of Foreign Reactors?

By Ranjit Devraj

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