Hurricane Katrina is the real parallel for Fukushima, not Chernobyl

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Energy for Humanity's Kirsty Gogan reflects on a recent visit for Fukushima that revealed an economy and a community slowly recovering from disaster

Driving along the coast to visit Fukushima Dai-Chi shortly after the fifth anniversary of the devastating Great East Japan Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, I was struck, not only by the power of the Pacific...

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