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The Failure Of The Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Disaster
Since the Fukushima incident, nuclear power plant is known as the “dream that failed”. Some of the nuclear investor has stop to invest in any condition which connect to the nuclear production. Due to that particular incident, Japan and Germany had shut down all their manufacture. After that, they started to be the world’s largest users in renewable resources such as solar energy and also hydroelectricity to supply power.
Furthermore, in the end Japan companies had finally sell uranium to an open market which had made a large dropped in price and made huge impact on labor markets. The damaged by the natural disaster had hit the power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Company (TEPCO), and had caused a huge amount more than hundreds millions


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