ABSTRACT
This chapter identifies some critical "lessons to be learned" from the Fukushima Mega-Disaster. ABC Australia and Japan's NHK reported that the Japanese government withheld information on high radiation at Fukushima that showed that levels of radiation more than thirty kilometers from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant exceeded safe levels. The tsunami damaged the Daiichi plant's ability to control the temperature of exposed nuclear rods. The dangers of nuclear power can't be overstated. Potentially, all planetary life is threatened. In Japan, public support for the continued use of nuclear energy had dropped. Efforts must be made to develop laws and other regulatory statutes that require complete transparency by all officials involved with any and all disasters, including local, national, international, governmental, commercial, military, and media sources. The laws and statutes must provide for punishments for any and all organizations that have engaged in deceit and deception regarding the status and implications of the disaster.
