Although 10 years have passed since the Fukushima nuclear accident, it continues to greatly impact global energy policy and the acceptance of nuclear power. This study aims to empirically analyze the Fukushima accident's effects on five dimensions of nuclear power acceptance and the interactions...

The health of the vulnerable populations receiving the Long-Term Care (LTC) Insurance Programs threatened by the direct and indirect effects of disasters. The 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami, and the explosion at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (FDNPP) forced the...

This paper reviews the case of nuclear energy. Currently, the worldworld is facing one of the greatest energy crises due to the Russo-Ukrainian war. This conflict has lead to limited sources of gas, causing a dramatic decrease in energy supply, leading to emerging energy crisis risks. This is...

The continuing impact of radiation risk around the Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant is assessed through an analysis of prices for housing and land transactions in Fukushima and Miyagi prefectures in the three years following the original tsunami and accident. I find a significant effect of...

Rapid and efficient clean-up of viscous crude oil spills is still a global challenge due to its high viscous and poor flowability at room temperature. The hydrophobic/oleophilic absorbents with three-dimensional porous structure have been considered as a promising candidate to handle oil spills....

This study presents a novel life cycle assessment-based framework for low-impact oil spill response waste (OSRW) management. The framework consists of design of experiment, life cycle assessment (LCA), multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA), operational cost analysis, and generation of...

Japanese atomic bomb survivors irradiated 8-25 weeks after ovulation subsequently suffered reduced IQ [Otake and Schull, 1998]. Whether these findings generalize to low doses (less than 10 mGy) has not been established. This paper exploits the natural experiment generated by the Chernobyl...

On March 11, 2011, the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima nuclear plant. The latter was a “manmade” disaster having immense impacts on people’s life, health, and property, infrastructure, supply...

In the next decade, humans will increasingly share the roads with autonomous vehicles (AVs). The deployment of AVs has the potential to dramatically reduce the frequency and severity of motor vehicle crashes. Existing liability rules give companies developing AVs insufficient incentives to...

Efficiently cleaning up high-viscosity crude oil spills is still a serious global problem. In this paper, a composite filler PPy-PDA/BN (PPB) with high photothermal effect and high thermal conductivity was first prepared. Then the polyurethane sponge is decorated with polydimethylsiloxane and...

Despite the 21st century being more educated, richer, healthier, peaceful and better connected than the previous centuries, a negligent happening of the past - Exxon Valdez oil-spill of 1989 still looms, hovers and monitors our actions today. Though it is not the largest oil spill recorded, the...

The catastrophic accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant on March 11, 2011, revealed unexpected safety risks of nuclear energy once again. It also accelerated the decline of nuclear energy in the international energy sector: Nuclear energy’s share of global electricity generation...

A multi-hazard event occurred off the coast of Peru in January 2022 caused chiefly by an underwater volcanic eruption near Hunga Tonga island in the Pacific. It triggered an earthquake and tsunami which further caused an oil spill event in a refinery in Peru. This research work is an attempt to...

On March 11, 2011 the strongest ever recorded in Japan earthquake occurred which triggered a powerful tsunami and caused a nuclear accident in Fukushima nuclear plant. The later was a “man-made” disaster having immense impacts on people’s life, health and property, infrastructure, supply...

Following the Fukushima nuclear accident, Japan gradually shut down all its nuclear power plants, causing a country-wide power shortage. In response, the government launched large-scale campaigns that aimed to reduce summer electricity consumption by as much as 15% in some regions. Because...

China has experienced a sharp increase in industrial accidents in recent years. Although Chinese government constantly stresses that production safety is above everything and has recently endeavored to reduce industrial accidents by implementing strict production safety regulatory policies, no...

Inzwischen wird es offen angekündigt: Ganzen Städten, Regionen und immer mehr Unternehmen soll regelmäßig der Strom abgeschaltet werden, wenn Windparks und Solaranlagen wenig Strom bereitstellen und konventionelle Kraftwerke stillgelegt worden sind. Solche „rollierenden Blackouts“...

Industrial forecasting is a top-echelon research domain, which has over the past several years experienced highly provocative research discussions. The scope of this research domain continues to expand due to the continuous knowledge ignition motivated by scholars in the area. So, more...

We exploit the Fukushima nuclear disaster as a source of variation in the demand for environmental information to study the economic consequences of environmental disclosure. Using a large, hand-collected sample of Japanese firms, we find that firms that issue stand-alone environmental reports...

The British Petroleum (BP) Oil Spill and Restitution are irresistible topics for exploration. Just as systems errors combined to cause the disaster m the Gulf of Mexico, the most human of institutions, the law, has struggled to find a proper way to respond. After the blowout, BP struggled to...

As the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (NPP) accident illustrates, many challenges have to be faced in maintaining safety over the long term in a damaged NPP following a severe accident. These comprise maintaining and monitoring a stabilised and controlled state of the damaged plant;...

Understanding the accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant is important for safe and timely decommissioning of the reactors. This objective, together with the development of better computer codes for analysis of severe accidents, was the aim of the benchmark study conducted under...