- Wednesday, 04. March 2015 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm Save in my calendar
Fukushima Four Years Later
LUNCH DEBATE
On 11 March 2011, one of the most powerful earthquakes on record hit the north-east of Japan. The resulting tsunami struck the nuclear power plant Fukushima Daiichi and heavily damaged the plant. Massive amounts of radioactive material were released into the environment. Since Chernobyl in 1986 this has been the largest nuclear disaster with far-reaching consequences.
Four years after the disaster it´s time to take stock: with Tetsunari Iida, executive director of the Institute for Sustainable Energy Policies and advisor on renewable energy to the Japanese Government. He will be able to give a first-hand insight into the current situation at Fukushima and on how the disaster impacted life in Japan: as a society and in terms of its economy and energy policy - especially, in the light of the recent controversial debate on returning to nuclear power.
The Fukushima disaster is also of significance from an EU perspective as Jan Vande Putte, energy expert at Greenpeace Belgium/Japan, will elaborate. The current discussion on the Energy Union and the growing chorus of support for nuclear as an alleged "climate-friendly" indigenous energy source underlines this fact.