Unit 1, originally scheduled for closure in 2011, was the first reactor to explode. In Japan itself, a recent newspaper poll shows nearly three quarters of respondents in favour of a phase-out of nuclear power. Also Switzerland, which currently gets about 40% of its energy from nuclear, has announced that it would not replace the country’s five plants after they reached the end of their lifetimes between 20. In the wake of the crisis, Germany’s coalition government has announced that all the country’s nuclear power plants will be phased out by 2022 – a U-turn for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who announced in 2010 that the government would extend the life of the country’s reactors by an average of 12 years.Įlsewhere in Italy, 95% voted in a referendum vote in June in favour of blocking a nuclear power revival in their country. Hardly anyone remained untouched by the pictures that travelled around the world and have sparked a renewal of the debate over the dangers of nuclear safety. A series of equipment failures, meltdowns and releases of radioactive materials have led to the largest nuclear disaster after the Chernobyl tragedy in 1986, with no end in sight. Today, the crisis still shows little sign of ending. Three months have passed since the evening of 12 March, when the Fukushima Daiichi’s oldest reactor imploded, putting Japan on the verge of a nuclear disaster.
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