Fukushima disaster: staff did nothing to prevent nuclear catastrophe
The past year was in many ways pivotal for Japan’s crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant after it was struck in 2011 by the second biggest nuclear catastrophe since Chernobyl. The NPP is to be phased out and eventually dismantled, despite the previous plans to restart the reactors that survived the meltdown. The Fukushima tragedy made the world reconsider its attitude towards nuclear plants and it has been on the lookout for new energy sources ever since.